Pedro Sandoval

Pedro Sandoval
Born (1966-07-12) 12 July 1966
in Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela
Nationality Venezuelan and Spanish
Movement Abstract expressionism
Website Official Sandoval website

Pedro José Sandoval (born 12 July 1966) is a Venezuelan abstract neo-expressionist artist. Pedro Sandoval has paintings exhibited at the museum Adolfo Suarez at Avila, Spain, the Contemporary museum Sofia Imber at Caracas, Venezuela and many others.[1] Also, his works are present in collections, as the Kennedy family, the White House collection and the collection of the Vatican Museum, among others.

Currently, Pedro Sandoval takes studies of American abstract expressionism and the German avant-garde. In American abstract art is conducting studies on the painting by Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Cy Twombly. Regarding German authors, the studies are performed about artists, like Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer or Sigmar Polke.

Biography

Pedro Sandoval was born in Venezuela in 1966. He was a precocious artist, winning the award "Young Master of the World" at Osaka when he was 6 years old. In 1984, this artist began his career and since then, he is considered as one of the most interesting neo-expressionist painters of the international scene.

The artist began his career as a figurative artist. After that, he chose abstraction for his works after investigating all the artistic trends of his time

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pedro Sandoval's exhibitions are shown in Venezuela, highlighting the exhibition "Masada", held at the gallery Ars Forum in Caracas.

Since the 2003 lives and works between Madrid, Berlin, and New York.[2]

He is followed closely by Venezuelan critics like Perán Ermini, Sofia Imber, Ariel Jimenez, Adolfo Wilson, Graziano La Rocca, Julia Saez Angulo, Ricardo Barnatán, and Dore Ashton.

Work

Phases

Series

Día De Domingo [Sunday Day]. 1988, oil on canvas. 71 x 67 1/2 inches. Permanent Collection of Boca Raton Museum of Art (PC 2000.076)

Exhibitions

Individual

Ave Fenix Series, "Butterfly II" Mixed / linen - 145x95cm (2012-13)

Collective

Ave Fenix Serie, "BUTTERFLYS V over landscape" mixed / linen - 170x200 cm. (2011-12)
Paisajes Fragmentados Serie, "Paisaje oculto con vertical" Oil on canvas - 200x195 cm. (2004)

Awards and honors

Publications

See also

References

  1. "Exhibition Archive". Boca Raton Museum of Art. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  2. "Pasión por el continente africano". El Mundo (in Spanish). 11 September 2006. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  3. "Reververaciones cromáticas". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2 February 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  4. "Cien artistas españoles donan su obra al museo de Merode en Alemania". Revista de Arte (in Spanish). 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  5. "Participant Artists X Florence Biennale".
  6. "X Florence Biennale - Awarded artists".
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