Three-Dimensional Narratives

The exhibition entitled Three-Dimensional Narratives was inaugurated in September of last year and consisted of works by Venezuelan artists in the field of sculpture. The exhibition was also presented as a tribute to the memory of sculptor Valentín Malaver who died in 2011. The event was part of the institutional agenda by La Galería CAF—Latin American development bank—of stimulating its audience's interest on sculpture "as a visual expression that offers an aesthetic relationship with the space."

The curatorship by Mariela Provenzali articulates the proposal as a plural expression that values perceptive components. Representing the same number of creators, the 12 sculptures favored an unusual approach to contemporary three-dimensionality: twelve sculptures, concepts, gazes; twelve significant pieces marked by aesthetic intentions. The group includes artists who have remained loyal to the use of the stone; artists like Valentín Malaver, Carlos Mendoza and Jorge Salas; while others like Nidia Delmoral, Gaudí Esté and Carlos Medina demonstrate a preference for working with wood; and others yet, like Alberto Cavalieri, Humberto Cazorla, Luis Millé and Sydia Reyes centered their attention on metals. On the other hand, there is the metric heterogeneity present in the assemblages by Felipe Herrera and the bust by James Mathison.

Although defined by its generality, this brief approximation allows us to point at some formal aspects of the proposal as a group. While the metallic sinuousness found in Cavalieri's work, marked by an abstract will, contrasts most of the other works, it nonetheless it finds affinities in the works by Millé and Reyes. For its part, figuration is present in the creations by Esté and Mathison. While Herrera's conceptual focus remains steadfast amid the plurality of forms, rigorous abstraction is defined in the works by Cazorla, Delmoral, Medina, Mendoza, as well as the work presented by Salas in a tribute to Soto: a dominating piece—closed to the Constructive Universalism by Torres García whose value stands out from the sculptural diversity within the sculptural group.