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Sergio Rangel Penzo

Sergio Rangel Penzo (1969)Painter, sculptor, performance, happening, videoart, art director.

Biography

[Caracas, Venezuela 1969] was born into a family with a rich Flemish-Spanish Christian tradition. The Rangel Manrique family has participated in the realization of the sacramental acts of La Pasión Viviente in Merida since 1912. In addition, Sergio inherited from the Penzo-Dorante family a wide knowledge in art, photography and Sephardic Kabbalah.

Career

Sergio Rangel Penzo is a Venezuelan-Spanish visual artist who has pursued studies in Venezuela, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. His professional journey commenced in 1977 under the guidance of his uncle, Jacobo Penzo Dorante, a Venezuelan filmmaker, visual artist, and poet. Jacobo's illustrious career includes recognition with the National Film Award of Venezuela in 2002, the Order of Arts and Letters from the Government of Venezuela in 2007, and leadership roles such as President of the National Association of Cinematographic Authors from 1984 to 1986 and Director of the National Cinematheque from 1999 to 2002. Additionally, he was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 and received the Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th edition of the Oscars in 1984.

In 1978, Sergio Rangel Penzo actively participated in children's art workshops at the Ateneo de Caracas, located in La Florida, Caracas. Under the guidance of Venezuelan artist Carmen Teresa Useche Sardi. In 1981, he took part in free graphic arts workshops at TAGA-CEGRA.

His debut in exhibition spaces occurred in 1984 during the Drawing and Painting Salons organized by FaberCastell Venezuela, as well as state and regional salons. In 1985, he crossed paths with Robert Rauschenberg, whose exhibition "ROCI VENEZUELA" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas positioned him as one of the most significant artists in the history of American art, defining the transition between abstract expressionism and Pop-Art. From 1988 to 1998, Rangel apprenticed under the renowned Venezuelan-German artist and plastic researcher Miguel Von Dangel.

In 1990, he clinched the First Prize at the National Salon of the Bolivarian Youth, and from 1990 to 1993, he pursued Graphic Design studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Cristóbal Rojas in Caracas.

Influenced by esteemed artists like Alirio Oramas, Pedro Terán, Jesús Soto, Carlos Cruz Diez, and others, Rangel continued his artistic evolution. He studied with renowned Venezuelan graphic designer Juan Carlos Darias in 1991, later collaborating on the creation of the IDA design institute, which led to the establishment of the Darias Institute of Design in Caracas. His teaching career began as he participated in the creation of the chair of digital design at the Darias Institute of Design from 1992 to 1994. Additionally, he taught graphic arts workshops at the Instituto de Capacitación Nacional Educativa INCE in Caracas from 1996 to 1997.

In 1999, Rangel relocated to Barcelona, Spain, specializing in art direction in interactive media, audiovisuals, and film editing. His solo exhibition "El Xifrat" in 2003 in Barcelona garnered support from Catalan artist Antoni Tapies.

Rangel's artistic journey encompasses multiple confrontations in America, Europe, and Asia, where he has represented Venezuela and Spain in numerous salons, biennials, and national international competitions. Recognized as a bastion of Latin American art, his work delves into major research processes associated with the sociology of identity and the universal.

With an extensive career as a cultural promoter, he has managed numerous projects and events as a curator. Sergio Rangel Penzo has been a member of the International Association of Plastic Arts of UNESCO (AIAP) since 1999, registered in the National Council of Plastic Arts of Belgium (CNAP) since 2019, and holds an Artist Visa from the Belgian Artists Commission since 2010. He is also a member of the Venezuelan Association of Plastic Artists AVAP since 1998.

Since 2022, Sergio Rangel Penzo has been working internationally, focusing on future exhibitions and the dissemination of the REEXISTENTIALIST ART movement. This movement was established in Muiden, Netherlands, on August 26, 2022, through his Manifesto to the artistic community of Amsterdam. From 2024 onward, he directs his efforts towards the diffusion of his creative process from New York City.

References

1. ^ I Publications
2. ^ Venezuela y la Bienal: entre el sesgo y la indignación
3. ^ Performance anti Maduro Allerta e padiglione blindato
4. ^ Falleció el cineasta y escritor venezolano Jacobo Penzo a sus 72 años

Works

• My Metaverso
• Press

Further reading

• Luís Peréz Oramas, Poet, art historian and curator. I met Sergio Rangel Penzo during the III SALON OF YOUNG ARTISTS PIRELLI in 1997 at the Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Caracas, where I served as a jury member, being this salon one of the most important of the Venezuelan plastic arts.  In that year Mr. Rangel was preparing his individual exhibition ''Postcard Hearts'' at the Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas. Sergio Rangel Penzo is a singular creator. His work has always been far from what is specifically called aesthetic, he avoids artistic fashions and, in general, he has stayed away from the big markets. His work reveals a wild temperament nourished by Venezuelan and Latin American traditions in a perfect syncretic fusion, as documented in his monumental work Trinitas Infernus of 1998, which was exhibited at the 3rd Biennial Barro de América "Roberto Guevara" in Maracaibo, Venezuela. This triptych, which as a whole describes the Trinitarian conformation of the Latin American identity in a lyrical act, filled with a poetic expressionist delirium, where the clay is transformed into a malleable material, highlighting an unprecedented mastery of the sculptural craft and a successful incorporation of the circumstantial object to the expressive medium. It is worth mentioning, as it is clear from conversations with the artist, that this work provides new technical resolutions in terms of the ceramist's craft, incorporating a whole process of research applied to the use of materials, where the eagerness to discover and innovate in his field is notorious. Rangel presents us a very rare openness to the contents of the unconscious, which leads him to connect in a very personal way with the collective memory in search of a constant dialogue with the viewer, his particular way of understanding existence and the world as a system of global interconnections, as a whole imbricated participant of the same consciousness and energy. For this reason his work is not very complacent, but rather a process of self-creation, for this very reason, the full meaning of Sergio Rangel Penzo's work, and its decisive importance within the context of  Venezuelan and universal art. He is an artist of a fierce instinct, with an innovative spirit poured in an eagerness to abandon the pre-established canons for creation, entering into new ways of plastic expression, he stands as a figure whose ways of making and understanding art impose an accuracy, which has encouraged him to investigate in multiple fields of human thought in a process of constant learning. His reformulations in function of the image, are sustained in his roots, his differentiating aspect is his capacity of purely visceral expressiveness, it is a direct look at Latin American syncretism, that very circumstance is what gives a communicative or symbolic value added to his process of creation, in his constructions he exposes as a constant the need for changes or other ways of seeing or confronting reality, which is visible in his artistic forms, as well as material being coherent with our time to that vision of the asylum. Therefore we can assume that his work reaches a worldview of the universal, oscillating as a modern subject between an imaginary hybrid and a model of productivity based on a series. Sergio Rangel Penzo is a noble exponent of the Venezuelan artistic tradition, clearly coupled to the Latin American and universal context, thanks to his innate capacity of adaptation, he has been able after 23 years to maintain his creative process in force in cities such as Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Ghent, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

External links

• My Metaverso
• Sergio Rangel Penzo