Frank Wow
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Frank Wow (born Franklin Cordido Jr.) is a Venezuelan artist, musician, and philosopher. He graduated cum laude from the UCLA School of Art in Los Angeles, California.
He first came to be know as the singer/guitarist of the band Ojo Fatuo in the early nineties. He then began mixing rock and electronic music with unconventional visual media such as video, web art, and performance art. His work has been shown in most major Venezuelan and several international museums and galleries, where has won numerous prizes. He was the first Venezuelan and one of the first Latinamerican artists to show a webpage as a work of art, "Ninguna Gran Cosa," at the 58th Annual Arturo Michelena Art Salon in 2000. Along with artists such as Yucef Mehri, Roberto Echeto, and Enrique Enriquez, he formed part of what was called the "jovenes artistas venezolanos" (young Venezuelan artists) of the turn of the Millennium.
In 1998 he started, along with brothers Kike and Luifer Millan, the band / multimedia collective known as Vulvavalvula. This group has scored plays for and played live with international dance ensembles such as Neodanza and the Zagreb Dance Company. They won the "Best Soundtrack Prize" at the Caracas International Theater Festival in 2002. In that same year Wow was invited to be one of the eight artist who founded the New Genres Collection at the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (MACCSI.)
