CODE PLZ-804
Pedro León Zapata VENEZUELA
B.1929
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D.2015
TITLE
UNTITLED (REF. JUAN VICENTE GÓMEZ)
DATE / #/EDITION
1980 / 4/50
SIZE (cm)
67x51
TECHNIQUE
SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Le%C3%B3n_Zapata
CODE PLZ-804
Pedro León Zapata VENEZUELA
-
D.2015
TITLE
UNTITLED (REF. JUAN VICENTE GÓMEZ)
DATE / #/EDITION
1980 / 4/50
SIZE (cm)
67x51
TECHNIQUE
SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED
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Some individual exhibitions 1967 Ateneo de Caracas1969 Banap Gallery, Caracas / 1975 "The whole museum for Zapata", MACC / Galería Arte Presente, Caracas 1977 House of the Americas, Havana / House of Culture Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Ciudad Bolívar / 1979 Exhibition Hall, Council of Sucre Municipality, Petare, Edo. Miranda / 1980 GAN / La Campana Theater Gallery, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo / Lea Gallery, / 1982 Ateneo de San Cristóbal / Bar Association, Ciudad Bolívar / 1986 "Cariculturas" (itinerant exhibition sponsored by the GAN), San Cristóbal, Mérida, Maracaibo, Barquisimeto, Valencia / 1987 "Benemérito General Juan Vicente Gómez ", Sin Límite Gallery, San Cristóbal / General Motors Exhibition Hall Edo. Carabobo / 1988 "Historia patria", Consulate of Venezuela, New York / "Oligarcas temblad", MTD Gallery, Caracas / "Tinta y gracia de Zapata", MBA / 1989 "See and see again", Francisco Narváez Museum / "Men , Horses and Centaurs ", Alejandro Freites Gallery, Caracas / 1990" How to kill vampires and other activities ", Viva Mexico Gallery, Caracas / Die Borse Gallery, Wuppertal, Germany / 1991 Diners Gallery, Bogotá / Venezuelan Cultural Center, Embassy of Venezuela , Bogotá / Art Museum of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá / "Caracas Zapata", Sacred Museum, Caracas / "Mundo y cielo de Zapata", Art Museum, Chorus / 1992 "All Puerto La Cruz for Zapata", Gallery Municipal de Arte, Puerto La Cruz / "Blue beard: self-portraits and other mirages" / 1993 "Official and marginal art of Zapata", Bank of Maracaibo, Maracaibo / "Zapata with the sweat of his ink", MBA / 1997 Usos Room Multiple, Mata de Coco-Seniat, Caracas / "50 cyberdibujos", MACCSI / "Dresses and undressed ", OAS, Washington / 1998 Consulate of Venezuela, New York / Space Venezuela Room, Consulate of Venezuela, Miami, Florida, United States / Sin Límite Gallery, San Cristóbal / José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City / 1999" Zapata al desnudo ", University Art Gallery Rafael Monasterios, Ucla /" Thirty times Zapata ", Dimaca Gallery, Caracas / 2000" Zapata a fondo ", Sala Zapata, Fondo Inversiones de Venezuela /" La quinta de Zapata ", Centro Cultural Eladio Alemán Sucre / 2002 "The Zapata family", Galería Giraluna, Maracay / 2003 "The role of Zapata", Daniela Chappard Foundation, Caracas / 2004 "Venezuela in Zapatazos", New Professions Technical Institute, Miami, Florida, United States / "Zapata paints and repainta ", Art Nouveau Gallery, Maracaibo /" Behind a man on horseback ", Punto de Arte Gallery, Caracas / Collections: BN / Casa de las Américas, Havana / El Nacional, Caracas / Polar Foundation, Caracas / GAN / MACCSI / Mamja / MBA / MRE / Mus eo Bicentenario Renewable Road, Cúcuta (Colombia) -San Cristóbal / Palace of the Academies, Caracas / UCV
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Birth: February 27, 1929. In 1945 he entered the School of Plastic Arts of Caracas. In 1947 he retired from this center to intervene in the foundation of Taller La Barraca de Maripérez, where he exhibited his first works and began his work as a cartoonist. At the end of 1947 he traveled to Mexico to learn the techniques of the muralists and studied at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, the School of La Esmeralda and the workshop of Siqueiros. He also worked as a teacher at the Acapulco School of Fine Arts. While living in Mexico, Zapata did not make cartoons. In 1958 he returned to Caracas and entered as a drawing professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Central University of Venezuela and the School of Plastic Arts Cristóbal Rojas. In 1958 he joined graphic journalism and in 1959 he began his collaborations as a cartoonist, at the beginning for the newspaper Dominguito and then from 1965 uninterruptedly for El Nacional, Caracas, in which started his column "Zapatazos", whose daily continuity he maintained until the day of his death. As a caricaturist, Zapata was awarded the National Prize for Journalism in 1967, and with two Municipal Prizes in 1974 and 1978. His artistic career was recognized with the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1980. He was the coordinator of the Free Chair of Humor Aquiles Nazoa (1979) in the UCV. At the end of the seventies, he directed the humorous magazine El Sádico Ilustrado, integrating the work of artists and writers such as: Abilio Padrón, Simón Díaz, Salvador Garmendia, Luis Britto Gracía, Elisa lerner and Rubén Monasterios, among others. During his life, he published several books: Zapatazos, Who is Zapata ?, Zapata vs. Pinochet, The least bad of Pedro León Zapata, Zapatazos for Uruguay, Zapata absolutely in Serio, Caracas, Monte and Culebra, Brief Chronicle of the Daily, The Gómez de Zapata, The A of Art to the Z of Zapata and the Zapata volumes , Firm and Firm Zapata. He also designed and painted album covers for musicians such as El Cuarteto, Simón Díaz and several for Xulio Formoso and Guaco. Zapata was the author of the giant ceramic mural titled Conductors of Venezuela (1999), of more than 1,500 square meters of surface, 150 meters long by 11.5 high, it is composed of 40,000 20 x 20 centimeters tiles, which illuminates part of the perimeter north of the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas, covering the retaining wall of the northern limit of the University City, which separates it from the Francisco Fajardo highway. Zapata continued his artistic life as a lecturer, teacher, radio and television man. He made designs for costumes and set designs for the theater and is the author of a piece entitled Venezuela Herótica. He passed away at the age of 85 while he was sleeping, in Caracas, Venezuela on February 6, 2015.
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