Panorama of Young Venezuelan Artists

The collective “Panorama of Young Venezuelan Artists” is a selection of the country’s best exponents, represented through seven artists.
Carlos Calderón lives in Isla Margarita, Venezuela. There he relates, daily, with the sea. His work recreates the mixture of emotion and anxiety that the diver feels in an environment that is not his own, but which fascinates him.
Alexander Martínez recalls an autobiographical element of his seamstress mother in a sort of “pictorial patchwork” which reflects a particular vision of society.
Mariana Monteagudo creates some dolls in which she combines Japanese comics (manga) and pre-Columbian aesthetics in ceramic faces. Beings that are situated between a Machiavellian “Chucky” and the softness of the organic materials which covers them.
Isabela Muci lingers in the repetitive –with Chinese or Japanese reminiscences-, which remind us of pieces of the Art Decó of the past.
Erica Sogbe uses abandoned industrial pieces to assemble them in a stand. In this way she de-contextualizes the object, generating various planes and wefts. The key is to pause. First, the general plane of the textures will be viewed. Then the different strata and depths. There are tensions among some elements generated by strings and a relaxed quality in the background. Also the warmth of the textures. An intellectual and aesthetic work.
Antonio Ugarte directs his gaze to the movement of the waters. He maximizes those details on which we lingered during childhood. Viscous or clean waters that always generate eddies which have fascinated man since the times of his creation.
Roberto Weil Viso is basically a draftsman loaned to painting. His work lies between social denunciation and the artist committed with a society that oppresses him. He has developed a solid career as a caricaturist which situates him in the important line of those dual Venezuelan artists.