Pedro Piña

 

He was born in Maracaibo, Zulia state, in 1952. He studied graphic arts and painting at the School of Plastic Arts Neptalí Rincón, Maracaibo, between 1966 and 1969; and of pure art in that same school, between 1970 and 1974. He devoted himself, upon graduating from it, to the art of neo-constructivist and abstract tendency, within which he has recently rehearsed an integration of painting and sculpture. Consecrated as one of the values ​of Zulian art, it has received an invitation to exhibit in numerous salons and exhibitions in Venezuela and abroad. He has worked as a graphic designer at the University of Zulia and has taught at art schools in Maracaibo, where he resides. He has appeared in exhibitions such as "Grandes y jóvenes de hoy", at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1979 and in confrontations held at the Municipal Culture Center of Ville Parisi, Paris, 1980; House of Culture of Grenoble, France; House of the Youth of La Varenne-sur-Seine, Paris. He has also exhibited at Galería Venezuela, in New York, and at the OAS Gallery, in Washington, D.C. Most important rewards: special prize and popular prize of the I Regional Art Salon, Maracaibo; second prize, I Salon de Arte de Occidente, Mérida, Mérida state, 1980; special prize in the same Salón de Occidente, Mérida, 1981; Special mention of the Sculpture Competition of Acerozulia, Maracaibo, 1981.

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