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Angel Luque

*1927 in Córdoba, Spain

Self taught. Participated in the collective exhibitions "Círculo de Bellas Artes", "Artistas de Hoy" and "Homenaje a Goya" in Madrid from 1948 until 1955. Was part of the "Artistas de Hoy" Group. Its artists, Oteiza, Chillida, Feito, Canogar, Saura and Luque, would meet at the Galería Fernando Fé in Madrid, later known as the "El Paso" Group.

In 1955 Luque moves to Caracas, Venezuela. In addition to painting, he works on a series of etchings in a workshop shared with the artists Luisa Palacios and Humberto Jaimes Sanchez around 1962. Between 1962 and 1963 he designs scenographies (for works by Goldoni and Machiavelli) for the theatre ensemble of the Instituto Venezolano Italiano de Cultura in Caracas.

Since December 1967 Angel Luque has lived in Paris. After the creation of designs in Paris and an extended stay in Munich Luque turns to a material that is new to him – perspex. In 1969 these sculptures are exhibited by Gallery Buchholz in Munich in conjunction with four geometric Luque screen prints printed by the gallery.

In Luque's sculptures we discover unreal spaces, the appearance and reality of which are created by visual and plastic effects Luque produces by making incisions into his dice-shaped perspex sculptures and by roughening certain surfaces thereof. Here it is not movement, as is the case with kinetic art, that provides the fourth dimension but it is rather the visual-spatial versatility that the viewer can discover from various perspectives.

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

1955 Galería Buchholz, Madrid

1961 „Pintura“, MBA, Caracas

1961 Galería Buchholz, Bogotá

1961/62 Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (MBA)

1962 Galería El Muro, Caracas

1963 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá

1964 „Pinturas“ / Malerei, MBA, Caracas

1966 „Dibujos“ / Zeichnungen, MBA, Caracas

1969 Galerie Godula Buchholz, München

1990 Galerie Denise René, París

2000 „Formas de ver“, MBA, Caracas

2002 Museo Arturo Michelena, Caracas

 

 

Awards

1961 Premio Puebla de Bolívar, XXII Salón Oficial de Arte Venezolano

1962 Premio Nacional de Dibujo y Grabado, XXIII Salón Oficial

1962 Premio Dirección de Cultura, „Cuarta exposición nacional de dibujo y grabado“

1962 Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, UCV, Caracas

1963 Mención honorífica, XXIV Salón Oficial de Arte Venezolano

 

 

In public collections

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas

Banco Mercantil, Caracas / GAN / MBA / Museo Arturo Michelena, Caracas

Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile

Avent. I.N.C. New York

Godula Buchholz, München

 

Bibliography

Calzadilla, Juan. El arte en Venezuela. Caracas: Ediciones del Círculo Musical, 1967, Cinap, L 35