Pedro Sandoval

PEDRO SANDOVAL ORTA (Venezuela, 1966).
"El Chamán de la suerte", 2015.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, titled and dedicated on the back.
Measurements: 80 x 80 cm.
This piece reflects an aesthetic language where various avant-garde movements and the translation of art history are captured. From a new perspective in which the aesthetic transgression at the hands of Pedro Sandoval means the creation of an image with its own language and personality. Through the use of color, the work offers the viewer a new vitalist aesthetic that merges with a diluted and fluid technique that spreads over the surface of the canvas in an apparently random way. However, compositionally the artist has managed to create a completely harmonious image where the mastery of color and technique achieve an expressive, vital and dynamic image that captures and creates a dialogue with the viewer.
Pedro Sandoval was born in Venezuela in 1966, from a very early age he showed a great interest in art and technical skills. At the age of six he won the Young Master of the World award in the Japanese city of Osaka. However, his academic 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 Wolfgang Becker called the New Savages, starting from figuration with which he experimented as an essay towards abstraction. He developed his artistic style working between the concept of rationality and a dynamic and vitalistic painting. 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 is represented 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, the Alvaro Mutis prize 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.