Juvenal Ravelo
Bio
Between 1952 and 1958 he studied at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts of Caracas, In 1964 he moved to Paris and attended the University of La Sorbonne, where he studied Sociology of Art with Pierre Francastel and Jean Cassou, In 1971 he obtained the National Prize at the III International Art Festival of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France; in 2006 the National Prize for Plastic Arts and two years later the National Prize for Culture. After his return to Venezuela, began to develop proposals aimed at community integration into the artistic fact, which from his perspective would promote a change in the human being when making works of art in the street, with which he would seek to develop the aesthetic sensitivity of ordinary citizens.Ravelo calls his concept as Art of participation in the street, his murals are found in many cities of the world, such as Paris, Havana, Istanbul, Caracas and soon Santiago de Chile.
Statement
The series Fragmentation of light and color made since the 60s, in which there is not only screen printing application but also the use of other materials that are at the service of color and visual rhythm.They are pieces that arise from the surface, but that advance towards the space with small reliefs, edges, metal supports and reflective elements, in such a way that the works not only have a frontality, but also a relief that is modified according to the location of the viewer.This dynamic of vision gives the viewer the possibility that his point of view is the one that builds the image as it moves, and we already know that this performative dimension is at the base of the utopia of integration into the space of the optical and kinetic artists of the first foundational scene of the 50s to the 70s.
Additional information
La escultura titulada “Fragmentación del color” está compuesta por más de 600 piezas de acrílicos coloreados ensamblados manualmente. Ravelo nos sorprende con un gesto arquitectónico, vuelve a la tridimensionalidad, apoderándose del espacio con una figura totémica.
