Rafael Rangel
Bio
Rangel's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas; the Interoceanic Museum of the Panama Canal, Panama City; the Coral Gables Museum, Miami, Florida; the National Art Gallery, Caracas; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas. He received the Pérez Mujica Award at the 66th Arturo Michelena Salon Biennale, the Braulio Salazar Museum Award, Valencia, the National Award for Young Venezuelan Artist Armando Reverón from the Venezuelan Association of Plastic Artists (AVAP), and the Excellence Award from The Circle at the Pratt Institute.
Statement
His work acknowledges our perpetual relationship with standardized utilitarian objects that place them on a plane of abstraction. Through sculpture, photography, and painting, Rafael explores how the visual language established by mega-industries impacts our lives and how we identify with it to the point that it becomes implicit to us.
