Pedro Sandoval

PEDRO SANDOVAL ORTA (Venezuela, 1966).
Untitled.
Silkscreen, copy I/V.
Signed and justified at the bottom.
Measurements: 100 x 70 cm.

Pedro Sandoval dedicated more than 10 years to the development of the Baz Art project, a studio in which he exhaustively researched the work of artists such as Alejandro Ordo, Piet Mondrian and Jesús Soto, the latter being the artist on whom he most focused his work. Pedro Sandoval's interests in initiating this research centered on the use of line and plane through transparency.

Pedro Sandoval was born in Venezuela in 1966, from a very early age he showed a great interest in art and technical skill. At the age of six he won the Young Master of the World award in the Japanese city of Osaka. However, his academic artistic training began later when he entered the Cristobal Rojas School in Venezuela. In the late 80's and early 90's he worked with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke or Anselm Kiefer, becoming part of what Wolfrang Becker called the New Savages. Starting from figuration with which he experimented as a way of testing towards abstraction. He developed his own artistic style working between the concept of rationality and a dynamic and vitalistic painting. Thus being the creator of the penta-abstractionist movement. A current that involves five elements: light, earth, air, water and essence, which allude to color, genesis, space and movement. His work, conscious of post-war movements, abstract expressionism and the sobriety of geometric rationality, evolved from the compression of these movements towards a new and personal style. Sandoval has more than 350 works exhibited in important art centers such as the Avant gallery in Miami, the collection of the princes of Waldenburg in Austria, the collection of Baron Borja Thyssen Bornemisza, the Vatican museum collection, the kennedy collection, the leo Castelli gallery, among others. In addition his work has been widely recognized with important awards such as the first prize Lorenzo II Magnifico gold medal at the X biennial in Florence, for his work New York City live, the Alvaro Mutis award for contemporary art, the first prize in group of the best artists of the II biennial of contemporary art of the Caribbean, Santo Domingo and Gold Medal of excellence of group pro art and culture Madrid, Knight of honor in the Russian courts, among many other awards.