Visual artist, sculptor and restorer born in 1963 with more than 35 years of experience in his sculptural work. In his early days, he worked for five years in the workshop of the artist Carlos Cruz Díez. Currently he is accredited by the Jesús Soto Foundation and the sculptor Rafael Barrios to restore his works.

His academic training began at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Plastic Arts, until he completed higher studies in Art at the Metropolitan University of Caracas. He has continued his professional training by taking workshops and courses in companies such as Dupont, Axalta and Sherwin Williams that have allowed him to improve his technique.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions, fairs, biennials and art shows at national and international level. His work has been recognized by the companies Hugh Development, Forbes Global Properties, Prímula Express Venezuela and Nestlé Switzerland. Specialized art newspapers and magazines such as, “Papel Literario” El Nacional, Art Nexus and Artefacto Internacional have published publications on the sculptor's work.

He is currently represented by: Galería Becerra Guzmán, Caracas; Galería Art Noveau Maracaibo – Miami; Liz Contag Art on the West Coast of the United States.

Artist's statement

One of my current investigations is objectively oriented within the ethnographic-geographic turn, and is related to questions linked to the identity between people and places, in a globalized world. In this context, the “distance” questioned and put into doubt, allows the difference and the “otherness” to acquire their full meaning.

The main approach when starting this project of the serpentines in particular, was to specify an “object” of the culture of my country, which would be capable of generating and posing both inside and outside of its own geography, aspects such as affinity, bond, union, joy, festivity, memory and a whole series of memories and images deposited in the unconscious.

Once the “object” was defined, in this case the Serpentine, it became clear how it operates on the psyche of the spectator, an object that, once decontextualized, is capable of placing the spectator in a reflective situation full of memories, emotions, moments, relationships, processes, consequences, affections and meaning.

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