Juvenal Ravelo
Bio
Juvenal Ravelo in 1964 moved to Paris and attended the University of La Sorbonne, where he studied Sociology of Art with Pierre Francastel and Jean Cassou. In 1971 he won the National Prize at the III International Art Festival of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France; in 2006 the National Prize for Plastic Arts and two years later the National Prize for Culture. Juvenal Ravelo's production develops a formal disquisition on pictorial kineticism within language, abstract-geometric, through what he calls "fragmentation of light" from monochrome structures. The world of Juvenal's works is the world of relativity; his pieces introduce the events of a reality that is reluctant to be apprehended by human perception. No categorial system can reveal the complexity and totality of reality, hence all knowledge must be affirmed, not at all, but in relative magnitudes. The work of Juvenal Ravelo is present in public and private collections among which are: Bertrand Russell Foundation (Nottingham, England); Ministry of Culture (France); Museum of Havana (Cuba); Museum of Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela) and Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
Statement
The fragmentation of light and color are pieces that arise from the surface, but that advance towards the space with small reliefs, edges, metal supports and reflective elements, in such a way that the works not only have a frontality, but also a relief that is modified according to the location of the viewer. This dynamic of vision gives the viewer the possibility that his point of view is the one that builds the image as it moves, and we already know that this performative dimension is at the base of the utopia of integration into the space of the optical and kinetic artists of the first foundational scene of the 50s to the 70s.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
