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Born in Ocaña, Colombia, in 1955, William Barbosa moved to Venezuela in 1975, where he currently lives and works. He exhibits regularly individually and collectively, notably within the framework of the MADI group and at numerous exhibitions, across Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. All of his work asserts the sovereignty of the abstract and geometric form. Squares, rectangles, triangles unfold in space, touch, intersect, overlap or ignore each other, but always seem to want to go beyond the space allocated to them, in a desire for expansion and of conquest of infinity. In energizing and tangy colors, reds, yellows, greens, blues and blacks, his aluminum sculptures come alive and articulate in order to capture and materialize the void. These forms of absolute abstraction easily refer to the concepts of Suprematist art developed by Kazimir Malevich, which one regularly invokes in view of the compositions of Barbosa. Like Malevich, the artist seems to express a radical negation of the world and in particular of the concepts expressed by all of contemporary art, to favor a purely intellectual search for truth. This truth goes through the stripping and rejection of everything, only from nothing a quest seems to be possible, or from "nihil" as Malevich expressed it. This purity imposes a pure work, calm and calm, breathtakingly silent, and clearly introspective, almost allowing access to the truth of the world through reason. Point, form and color are linked in their purest expression, or in the absence, which comes under absolute abstraction, supreme state of painting and act of creation itself, without any other source of inspiration than the inner need to create. "William Barbosa's work is synthetic, concentrated, minimalist (according to the principle dictated by Mies Van der Rohe," Less is more ") in order to optimize its energy and beauty, and with the aim of to impose silence on the ambient visual disorder and to dictate, to the irrational agitation of the apparent chaos, the serenity of reason ”. Perán Erminy
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Sculpture, Untitled, William Barbosa

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William Barbosa

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Born in Ocaña, Colombia, in 1955, William Barbosa moved to Venezuela in 1975, where he currently lives and works. He exhibits regularly individually and collectively, notably within the framework of the MADI group and at numerous exhibitions, across Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. All of his work asserts the sovereignty of the abstract and geometric form. Squares, rectangles, triangles unfold in space, touch, intersect, overlap or ignore each other, but always seem to want to go beyond the space allocated to them, in a desire for expansion and of conquest of infinity. In energizing and tangy colors, reds, yellows, greens, blues and blacks, his aluminum sculptures come alive and articulate in order to capture and materialize the void. These forms of absolute abstraction easily refer to the concepts of Suprematist art developed by Kazimir Malevich, which one regularly invokes in view of the compositions of Barbosa. Like Malevich, the artist seems to express a radical negation of the world and in particular of the concepts expressed by all of contemporary art, to favor a purely intellectual search for truth. This truth goes through the stripping and rejection of everything, only from nothing a quest seems to be possible, or from "nihil" as Malevich expressed it. This purity imposes a pure work, calm and calm, breathtakingly silent, and clearly introspective, almost allowing access to the truth of the world through reason. Point, form and color are linked in their purest expression, or in the absence, which comes under absolute abstraction, supreme state of painting and act of creation itself, without any other source of inspiration than the inner need to create. "William Barbosa's work is synthetic, concentrated, minimalist (according to the principle dictated by Mies Van der Rohe," Less is more ") in order to optimize its energy and beauty, and with the aim of to impose silence on the ambient visual disorder and to dictate, to the irrational agitation of the apparent chaos, the serenity of reason ”. Perán Erminy

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What is William Barbosa’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Geometric Sculptors

When was William Barbosa born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1955