Alejandro Otero

Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group.

Early life Alejandro Otero studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas de Caracas from 1939 to 1945. In 1940 he won a prize in the First Venezuelan Official Art Salon. After his studies, Otero traveled to New York and Paris where he focused his work on a revision of Cubism in 1945, living in Paris until 1952. In 1945 he also went to Washington, D.C., where he exhibited figurative works at the Pan American Union. Towards the end of his life he carried out many monumental public art commissions in many American cities. In 2012 the exhibition Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero organized by the (IAC), was presented at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

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Selected works , 1947 , 1947 , 1950 , 1951 , 1951 , 1951 , 1951 , 1951 , 1951 , 1951 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1952 , 1954 , 1956 , 1959 , 1959 , 1961 , 1962 , 1976