Venezuelan visual artist Ricardo Perez Quintero technique is assemblage medium.

During his studies to become an architect and urban designer he was first involved with art. In his work one can recognize the influence of Cornell, Duchamp, Nevelson, Magritte and Uruguayan constructivist Joaquin Torres Garcia.

This artist can bring together, in one piece, different creative mediums such as assemblage, sculpture and collage. Rescuing lost objects (ready made) Ricardo Pérez Quintero, like a Tarot alchemist, transforms them into poetic objects and living objectual presences with no significative interventions.

His attractive and suggestive boxes elicit narrative, metaphorical and metaphysical readings from the spectator. Ever since Ricardo Pérez Quintero began exhibiting - in group and solo shows - people related to the art, architecture, music and journalism mediums have found and recognized the charm, poetics and rigor in his assemblages.

 

 

ABSTRACT CURICULA

Ricardo Pérez Quintero is a Venezuelan, born in Caracas. His adolescence was spent in Mexico, where he began his architectural studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of México. He obtained his degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1969.

In 1973 he obtained a Masters in Urban Design at “The Victoria University of Manchester”, England. He also studied conservation and historical site rehabilitation at the Sapienza University of Rome.

He has designed and executed Special Plans for Urban Renewal of Historical Centers in several Venezuelan cities. In Venezuela he has developed projects and executed sites in the service, residential and hotel areas. He has restored buildings of important patrimonial value in his home country.

At the same time he is dedicated to developing his artistic work in the “box” modality, which can be defined as thematic assemblages constructed by juxtaposing elements of various origins, harmoniously incorporated as symbols and “art objects”, which suggest contextualized or specific scenes.

Awards

1968  Architectural Students Art Salon Prize at the Architecture and Urban Studies Faculty.UCV.

1999  “Ciudad de la Victoria” Order in the First Class, Aragua State.

2000  “Samán de Aragua” Order in the First Clase, Aragua State.

2002 Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty Art Biennale UCV, Second Prize

2011 Third Sculpture Biennale, Galería Trazos, Centro Lido, Caracas Popular Vote Prize   “Barco de Louise N.”