Latin American Artists
Latin American Artists Lorna Benavides / Alejandro Decinti / Antonio Máro / Rafael Ramírez
Lorna Benavides Alejandro Decinti
Antonio Máro
Rafael Ramírez
From January 21-28 february 2010 Vernissage : January 21 at 16:30 hrs. Venue : Foyer in the Main Building European Patent Office, The Hague
Embajada de Costa Rica
Embajada de Perú
Embajada de Chile
Antonio Máro
Lorna Benavides
Alejandro Decinti
Antonio Máro
Rafael Ramírez
Costa Rican -Spanish sculptor and painter. In 1982 she obtained the Academic Excellence Scholarship in Sculpture in the admissions process at the Academia de San Fernando, Madrid. She graduated in Fine Arts from Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, and San Carlos Fine Arts Universty, Valencia. Since 1986 Ms Benavides has participated in several single and joint sculpture and painting exhibitions throughout Spain, and since 2002 she has taken part regularly at the “Salon de Sculpture et Peinture” in Gers. In she was selected as the sculptor for the Parque La Pinada in l’Eliana, Valencia. In 1994 she founded the Academia Círculo de Arte, where she teaches and exhibits her work.
Chilean-Italian painter. He graduated in fine arts from the University of Chile. He moved to Spain in 2002. He was admitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, and was awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities. He obtained the first place in the “Arte en Vivo” painting competition in 1994 and was granted a post-graduate scholarship from the Fundación Arte y Autores Contemporáneos at Madrid. Together with Chilean artist Oscar Villalón, he established the Decinti & Villalón Painting Studio based at Calle del Castillo, Chamberí, Madrid, where they actively teach and strive to promote painting.
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Born and raised in Peru. He has lived in Europe since 1950. He studied painting in Stuttgart, under Willi Baumeister. He has staged a series of individual exhibitions in many European countries, as well as in Latin America, Canada and the USA, such as at the Ateneo San Basso, Venice Biennial, 1982-1986; the European Parliament, 1994; the Museo de la Nación, Lima, 1995; The Instituto Cultural Peruano-Norteamericano, Lima, 1996; the World Trade Center, Jakarta, 1996; the Chan Mai University Museum, Bangkok, 1996; the Working People’s Palace, Forbidden City, Beijing, 1996; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Lima; the National Library, Berlin, 1998; the Kunsthof Gallery, Berlin, 1999; the Frascati Art Museum, Rome, 2005; the Instituto Latino Americano, Rome, 2006; the Mosaique, International Contemporary Art, Pont Saint Marie, Brussels, 2007.
Peruvian painter; he is Antonio Máro’s son. As a 12 year-old boy he worked in his father’s atelier, producing with him several works for various exhibitions, including the Venice Biennial, festivals and other public works on a large scale, such as the Stadthalle at Hilden, as well as chapels in Salzburg and Eifel. He enrolled in the Superior School of Painting, St. Luc at Liege. He also studied with Rolf Koller and Schaffmeister in Cologne. He studied history of art, philosophy and literature to deepen his knowledge for the themes of his big pictorial cycles in the RTWH, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. He has carried out portraits, nudes, abstract and sacred paintings (such as Saint Elizabeth in the entrance of the Santa Isabel de Lima Clinic, Peru), as well as copies of 17th Century masters in Vienna and Antwerp. www.rafaelramirez.eu
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