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Biography jacobo borges

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1931born in Caracas (Venezuela)1936-1944Experimental course for children at the Caracas School of Fine Arts1945-1948Lithographer in the company “Cartones de Venezuela”
Draftsman with Carlos Cruz in the Advertising company “Mc Cann-Erickson”1949-1951Studies at the Caracas School of Fine Arts, with Alejandro Otero1951Working in the Free Art Workshop in Caracas1952-1956Scholarship and afterwards stay in Paris1969Production of the black and white short film “22 May”1979Publication of a book with own illustrations1986-1987Stay in Berlin (DAAD Scholarship)1995-2003Lecturer for Painting at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (eight summers in total)
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Born in Caracas the 28 of November of 1931.

Studied in the school of Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas de Caracas, up to 1950, year in which he was gotten up to the Taller libre de Arte.

Scholar to study in Europe resided in Paris from 1952 to 1956. In 1963 he obtained the National painting prize in the Salón Oficial and in 1956 he represented Venezuela in VIII the Biennial of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
Painter and incisive sketcher who works following an order of daily annotations to fix ideas that see it leaving to the step, Borges seems to refuse to also accept the professionalism in art, dedicating itself to the cinema. Often their pictures are commentaries of the real life; they are based on an anecdote and is considerable use of advertising and journalistic images that handles with satirical intention. As painter does not limit itself to express his vision and its feelings of artist, but who aspires to register situations able to make reflect beyond to the spectator of the aesthetic fact.

For the first time in our Country, a painter who aspires to even comment negative aspects o

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Jacobo Borges (born 28 November 1931 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a contemporary, neo-figurative Latin- American artist. His curiosity for exploring different mediums made him a painter, drawer, film director, stage designer and plastic artist. Known for his ever-evolving style, there is one constant principle that unites his work: "the search for the creation of space somewhere between dreams and reality where everything has happened, happens, and may happen." His theoretical approach and unique, innovative technique has won him acclaim all over the world. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Britain and the United States. Today, he is considered one of the most accomplished artist of Latin America. His oeuvre includes a rich body of paintings, a

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