Luis Barreto
Venezuelan painter, he began his artistic training in 1968 at the Free Art Workshop (El Tigre, Edo. Anzoátegui), where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture and participated in collective exhibitions until 1971. This year he traveled to Ciudad Bolívar and frequented the workshops of Inciba art, where he studies drawing and engraving for a year. In 1972, he moved to Caracas to study architecture at the UCV until 1974. Between 1974 and 1977 he participated in the annual editions of the University Hall of Art and in the art rooms of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the UCV. In 1981 he took part in the First Biennial of Young Artists (MACC). His pictorial work is part of abstraction. Barreto does not previously establish a compositional scheme, but directly captures the surface of the painting with very personal shapes, planes and colors in its resolution. With intense colors and powerful gestures, Barreto's painting is shredded from preconceived forms and ideas to express itself in structures of different planes and geometries of intense colors and careful tonal gradations. In 1982 he traveled to Milan (Italy) and studied graphic design at the IED; this year he receives the special prize of the Jury in the V Salon de la Malpenza in Milan (Italy). In 1985 he returns to Venezuela and resides in Caracas. Luis Barreto's painting investigates figurative forms and takes them to an extreme degree of schematization, playing with planes of various heights and colors endowed with certain constructive values. His awards and recognitions are: 1968 First Prize Rotary Club, Free Art Workshop, El Tigre, Edo. Anzoátegui; 1969 First prize of painting, II Orinoco Fair, Ciudad Bolívar; 1974 First prize, painting mention, I University Hall of Art, UCV / First prize, mention painting, XIII Hall of Art, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UCV; 1977 First prize, painting mention, Salon of Plastic Arts, UC / First prize, mention painting, I Municipal Hall of Art December 7, Maturín / First prize, XVI Hall of Art, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UCV, Caracas / Mention , XXIX Salon of Drawing and Painting, Faces; 1978 First prize of painting, VII Salon Pintores Bancarios, BCV; 1982 Special Jury Prize, V Salon de la Malpenza, Milan, Italy; 1986 Mention Municipal Prize for Visual Arts, Municipal Council Hall of the Federal District, Caracas; 1989 Painting Prize of the Legislative Assembly of the Anzoátegui State, IV Regional Biennial of Puerto La Cruz; 1992 Gold Medal, First Biennial of the Caribbean and Central America, Santo Domingo; 1999 Mention, Annual Spring Show, Venice.
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