Wilmer Herrison

His youth has been impregnated with the colors of his hometown and the strength of the surrounding exuberant nature. At 23, he came to France where he was admitted at the École du Louvre. There, he studied techniques of the ancient frescoes, of the early Italian paintings and the "Early Netherlandish painting", developing a major interest for Baroque paintings, Impressionism and contemporary creation. He was early influenced by the Venezuelan Kinetic Artists, Jesús Rafael Soto, Lía Bermúdez and Carlos Cruz-Díez. At 32, he received an early recognition in his home country, exposing the same year in two national museums, the Barquisimeto Museum and the Museum Of Modern Art Juan Astorga Anta in Mérida, Venezuela. In 2010, during his exhibition "Serenissima" in Venice, he meets the Italian designer Piero Massaro, who, inspired by his paintings, created a collection of eyeglasses called Collezione WH.