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"Sergio ""Valenz"" Valenzuela"Happy Landscape 12019
2019
About the Item
Sergio Valenzuela “Valenz” is a contemporary Guatemalan artist who tells stories with everyday objects, primarily expressing them with graphite and acrylic on canvas. His artworks prominently feature elements such as chairs, ladders, and beds. These recognizable structures serve as a way for the artist to signify the opportunities, growth and dreams we all carry as individuals.
This unique 15 inch high by 27 inch wide artwork is framed in a silver wood frame. Size and price include frame. It is wired and ready to hang. It It is signed and dated by the artist on the front of the artwork. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and global shipping is available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Valenz was born in Guatemala in 1970. He graduated from Universidad Galileo de Guatemala with a major in Communications with a concentration in Education. He is a graphic designer, creative director, publicist, as well as a professor, teaching university courses on creativity, advertising, and graphic design at his alma mater.
His first group show was at the Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, in 1992. Since that time Valenz has be featured in over eighty group shows and thirty solo exhibitions in South America and around the world. Among numerous recognitions and awards he was selected as the winner of the “Young Artist” award in 2005, and granted a scholarship to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Valen. His works are exhibited in the French Allegiance of Guatemala, Forma Museum of El Salvador, private collections in Guatemala, Central America, Europe, Mexico, and the United States of America.
Valenz tells stories with everyday objects. “By using elements such as chairs, ladders, beds, monocycles, trapeze artists, swings, machines… it is a way of telling stories about life. The chairs signify, according to the context, opportunities and the patience required for them to step into our lives. The ladders represent our desire to climb, to continue our personal growth. Beds represent periods when we sleep and dream, things we cannot share with anyone else. Playful characters are representative of the uniqueness and singularity of each of the moments that we experience throughout our lifetimes, and the game that life is. Painting is my life.”
Valenz uses a graphite pencil as an instrument that reiterates messages across his works. Proposals surge from previous ideas and views, and are redrawn over and over on translucent papers, which offer us the opportunity to construct in our minds the storyline of his works and interpret what their meaning is. When combined with his playful figures, they create systems where they interact in an all-encompassing environment. His figures represent the uniqueness of our experience. The less permanent nature of pencil allows him to continually rework his compositions until his distinctly illustrated figures begin take on a life of their own. These events occur within the walls of certain living spaces, which nevertheless are part of a greater interconnected system.
REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2018-23 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, California, USA
2016 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, California, USA
2015 Samso Dinamarca Galeria Vandstrup 1771, Solo Exhibition, Guatemala
Juannio 2015, Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala
Galeria del Centro, Solo Exhibition, Fundación G&T, Guatemala
Heath Gallery, Palm Springs, California, USA
“La Crisálida” NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
Arte en Mayo Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala
Heath Gallery Palm Springs, California, USA
2014 Fundación G&T Revista Galeria
Galería el Attico Artistas y Punto
Juannio 2014, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida, Guatemala
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida, Guatemala
Alberto Linero Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2013 Mujeres en Café Galería de arte rozas Botran
exposición individual galería el Attico ” DOCE” escultura
Arte en Mayo, Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Exposición individual Arte, vino y tecnología Aktiva
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Juannio 2013, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
¨Entre Tierras¨MUNA museo de Antropología EL Salvador
SUMARTE Museo Marte El Salvador
IDEARTE Museo de Identidad Nacional Honduras
Galeria VIVA Rozas Botran Caballos de batalla
Miniaturas Galeria El Tunel Guatemala
2012 Museo Diego Rivera Anhuacalli Coyoacán México
Juannio 2012, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Junkabal
Fundacion Mario Monteforte Toledo
Miniaturas en el galeria El túnel
Miami Oceanía Club Key Biskayne
museo Marte san Salvador SUMARTE
museo de identidad nacional Honduras IDEARTE
2011 Salón del Grabado Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Juannio, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Sala Tonalli, Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli Mexico DF
Exposición Colectiva Plastica Contemporánea Guatemalteca Encuentros y Tendencias
Salas José María Velasco y Rufino Tamayo del Centro Cultural Jardín Borda
Amor Contemporaneo, Museo Ixchel Guatemala
Fundación Rozas Botran Inauguración Galería Paseo Cayalá
2010 Amor Contemporáneo Museo Ixel
Subasta Club Rotario
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Finalista,Juannio 2010, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
2009 Rotarios Subasta de Arte
Fundación Rozas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida
Artista Invitado, Inauguración Galería Die Augen
Finalista 45 Años de Juannio. Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida
San Salvador Museo Forma Solidarios en el Arte
San Salvador Museo Marte, Mención de Honor Subasta de arte latinoamericano SUMARTE 2009
2008 3er Aniversario La casa del Aguila
Fundación Rosas Botrán, Museo de Arte Carlos Mérida, Mención Honorífica
Homenaje a Francisco Auyón Galeria CAOS
San Salvador Museo Forma Unidos por el Arte
de Miniaturas CAOS
2007 Rosas Botrán Obra en Catálogo
Madrid España Jai Alai
Homenaje a Frida Kalho, Embajada de México y Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala
2006 Bienal de Arte Paiz. Parque de la Industria
Juannio 2006. Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida
Galería CAOS
2005 Feria Internacional SCAE Asociación de Cafés especiales de Europa, Athens, Greece
Alianza Francesa Guatemala Primer Premio IV Certamen del Jóven Pintor
Juanio 40 años, Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida
Sueños tendidos Galería de Arte CAOS
École Nationale Suéprieure des Beaux Arts Paris, France
2003 Inauguración Galería CAOS
2001 Parque de la industria,Camara de comercio de Guatemala
1998 Cours Joubernon, Crest – Francia
1997 “Casa de la Cultura Antigua Guatemala”, Exposición Itinerante Grupo Tafhú Sheps
Universidad Rafael Landivar,“Galería de Arte”, Primera Exposición Grupo Tafhú Sheps
1996 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Obra Seleccionada
1992 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Exposición colectiva
RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS
2009 SUMARTE Art Auction recognition award
Finalist at the Latin American Art auction commemorating 45 Years of Juannio
2008 Recognition Award at the X International Festival by Rozas Botran
2007 Selected work for the IX International Festival Rozas Botran
Invited artist by the Embassy of Mexico to the Frida Kahlo Tribute Show
2006 XV Biennal de Arte Paiz (best artwork among invited artists)
Latin American Art Expo (best artwork)
2005 Juannio (best artwork)
TV & FILM
Minx, HBO
- Creator:"Sergio ""Valenz"" Valenzuela" (1970, Guatemalan)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
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