Juan Vicente Fabbiani

Juan Vicente Fabbiani, 1910 – 1989. Venezuelan painter and educator. His pictorial work is considered by many as a point of connection with the figurative proposals of the 1940s. Juan Vicente Fabbiani studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas between 1924 and 1929, being a student of the teachers Antonio Esteban Frías, Carlos Otero and Marcos Castillo. He began working as a professor at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts in Caracas in 1936, an institution where he taught from 1936 until his retirement. During his youth he made graphic comics reproduced as an illustration of the Élite magazine and in Advertising «ARS». In the V edition of the Official Salon he was distinguished with the John Boulton Award. In 1945 he presented his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, and that same year he won the Official Painting Award and the Antonio Esteban Frías Award, at the VI Official Salon. In 1946 he received the Arturo Michelena Award at the IV Official Salon. In 1948 he was awarded the First Prize at the Planchart Salon and 3 years later with the National Prize for Plastic Arts at the X Official Salon. In 1958 he represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale. Two years later he was appointed director of the Cristóbal Rojas School of Plastic and Applied Arts, later he worked as an arts teacher at the Medical College of the Federal District. His last individual exhibition was held in 1973. In 1990 the National Art Gallery held an exhibition in his tribute.

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