Carlos Prada

Venezuelan sculptor and painter, a friend of the family, suggests entering Cristóbal Rojas School while waiting to enter high school. He was a disciple of Gego and Eduardo Gregorio, and obtained the certificate of pure art in 1962 and that of teacher training in 1965. In 1962 he exhibited at the XX Arturo Michelena Hall and the Julio T. Arze Hall, and later at the I and III Young Sculpture Hall (G Gallery, Caracas). In his student years his works approached cubist postulates and abstract propositions with linear cuts and simultaneous planes. Shortly after he stylized his figures, influenced by Giacometti. In 1964 he worked in a workshop in Quebrada Honda together with the British sculptor Kenneth Armitage and a group of young Venezuelan sculptors. He participated in 1964 in the XXV Official Hall, the X Salon D'Empaire and the III Sculpture Hall (Gallery G, Caracas). Between that year and 1969 he specializes in stained glass and foundry techniques at the Cristóbal Rojas School. In June 1965, he received a scholarship from Inciba and traveled to Europe. He studied internships and participated in the IV Biennial of Young Artists in the Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris. In 1966 he received the National Sculpture Prize at the XXVII Official Hall with El infierno (GAN collection). The following year he exhibits in "Confrontación 67" (Ateneo de Caracas). In 1967 he was invited to the High Park Sculpture Symposium in Toronto (Canada), and to exhibit with Pedemonte, Gego and Pedro Barreto in The Hague (Holland). That same year he participated in "The sculpture and its possibilities" (Science Museum, Caracas). Between 1969 and 1970 he served as director and professor of the School of Plastic and Applied Arts Carmelo Fernández de San Felipe, and is dedicated to the production of jewelry from his sculptural iconography. In the seventies, his tortured figures will be subordinated, under the effects of the scale, to objects found as bathroom faucets, gears or fragments of rusted machines, as in Workers leaving the factory between scream and silence (1974 , GAN collection). In 1970 he participated in the International Jewelry Symposium in Northern Ireland and, in Venezuela, won the Applied Plastic Arts Prize, in the jewelry section, in the XXVIII Arturo Michelena Hall. The following year he began teaching at the Cristóbal Rojas School and is appointed professor at the IUMPM. Between 1971 and 1972 he teaches at the Colegio San Agustín (Caracas) and that last year in the art department at the IUPC. Between 1973 and 1975 he made a postgraduate degree at the IUPC. In 1975 he participated in the collective exhibition of Venezuelan art at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska, United States). At this time, in addition to sculpture, he works painting and exhibits some of these works in the G Gallery (Caracas, 1976) with a group of sculptures. Between 1979 and 1983 he studied at the IUMPM, where he graduated as a professor of plastic arts. He was a professor of sculpture at the Rafael Monasterios School of Visual Arts in Maracay (1981-1983), deputy academic and teaching support director of the Cristóbal Rojas School (1982) and head of the art department of the IUPC (1983-1986). In 1984 he began a master's degree in planning and administration of higher education, at the Rafael Urdaneta University (Caracas), studies culminating in 1988. In 1991 he founded the postgraduate course on Venezuelan plastic arts at the IUPC, which he coordinated until 1996. His initial work, characterized by the man-machine relationship, it undergoes a transition towards 1992, when it exhibits in the Muci Gallery more quiet and calm figures, distanced from the aggressiveness of its previous pieces. Prada works bronze and his works are relatively small. In 1972 he made a large-scale Man and machine for the USB gardens and, although for a while he continued to work small parts, in his last years of production he has made parts on a larger scale. De Prada, the GAN has in its collection El infierno I (1965), El infierno II (1966), Workers leaving the factory between the scream and the silence (iron, bronze and wood, 1976) and an untitled piece (1980). He participated in the following individual exhibitions: 1965 "Sculptures", MBA; 1967 Gallery XX2, Caracas; 1968 "Sculptures", Marcos Castillo Gallery, Caracas; 1969 Marcos Castillo Gallery, Caracas; 1971 Marcos Castillo Gallery, Caracas; 1974 Liceo Fernando Peñalver, Caracas; 1976 "Sculptures, paintings", G Gallery, Caracas; 1977 CEA, Guatire, Edo. Miranda; 1978 Weapons Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States; 1979 "Sculptures", La Pirámide Gallery, Caracas; 1980 "Recent sculptures", Freites Gallery, Caracas; 1981 "Sculptures", House of Culture, La Victoria, Edo. Aragua; 1985 GAES / "Three atmospheres", Center of Fine Arts, Maracaibo; 1986 El Nido del Callejón Gallery, Caracas; 1992 "Manantial de soles", Muci Gallery, Caracas; 1997 "Lodgings of silence, abodes of light", Muci Gallery, Caracas. He has received the following awards: 1965 María Eugenia Curiel Award, XXVI Official Hall; 1966 National Sculpture Award, XXVII Official Hall; 1967 First prize of sculpture, Renault Prix d'Achat, Madurodam, Holland; 1968 Julio Morales Lara Award, XXVI Arturo Michelena Room; 1970 Applied Arts Award, XXVIII Arturo Michelena Room; 1979 Award Secretary of Education of the Carabobo State for Jewels, VII National Hall of Fire Arts, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo; 1986 First sculpture prize, III Francisco Narváez Biennial; 1988 National Fire Arts Award, 1st National Fire Arts Biennial, La Rinconada Museum of Art, Caracas.

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