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Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group.
Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group.
In a practice spanning mediums, scales, and subjects, Alejandro Otero cemented his position over the course of his lifetime as one of the most dynamic and influential figures in Venezuelan art history.
Apr 13, 2017 · Colorhythms, a group of works by Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero made in the 1940s and 1950s, are vertical or horizontal rectangular paintings that unfold in countless serial compositional variations. Otero strove for rhythmic-chromatic resonances in these radical works.
In his Colorhythm series, Otero, an artist central to the development of abstraction in Venezuela, marked the first in-depth exploration of a repeating and abstract serial motif by a Latin American artist. Over the course of seventy-five paintings, he manipulated the same basic elements: brightly colored shapes and alternating light and dark bands.
Born March 7, 1921, in El Manteco, Venezuela, Alejandro Otero was a painter and sculptor who played a leading role in the history of modernist abstraction in his native land. From 1939 to 1945 he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Caracas (School of Fine Arts of Caracas).
Learn about Otero's life, work, and influence, from his realistic paintings to his color-rhythms inspired by Mondrian. Explore his experiments with collage, assemblage, and public art in the fifties and sixties.
