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Juvenal Ravelo
Artist

Juvenal Ravelo

Juvenal Ravelo is a Venezuelan visual artist who belongs to the flow of kinetic art. He is the recipient of the 2006-2007 National Culture Prize of Venezuela. He studied at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts of Caracas and at the Martín Tovar y Tovar Technical School of Arts.

In 1964 he traveled to France to learn about abstract art and constructivism. He attended La Sorbonne seminars on the sociology of art taught by Pierre Francastel and Jean Cassou. After his return to Venezuela, he began to develop proposals aimed to the community integration into the arts field.  From his perspective, this would lead to a change in the human being by performing artworks in the streets seeking to develop the aesthetic sensitivity in the ordinary citizens. Ravelo calls his concept as “participative arts in the streets”.

His “open-air museum” project began in his hometown, where he developed the Chromatic Modules. In the creation of these Modules, the inhabitants belonging to the localities where they presented their projects participated as an essential part of their proposal. One of the most prominent Chromatic Modules is the one seen along the Libertador Avenue in Caracas.

Artworks

Fragmentación de la Luz y el Color # 2, 2018
$2,500.00
Fragmentación de la Luz y el Color, 2018
$2,500.00
Fragmentación del Color, 2016
$3,500.00