Next Sunday May 29, 2011 opens anthology shows Walter Margulis. An abstract spirit, divided into two sites: the paintings in the Sephardic Museum in Caracas E. Morris Curiel (Tiferet Israel Synagogue, Paseo Colon Av Maripérez Main) and drawings at the Museum Kern Union Israelita de Caracas (av. Washington, San Bernardino). This exhibition is a production of the Sephardic Museum of Caracas E. Morris Curiel, responding to its mission d institutional and study and disseminate the contributions of leading members of the Jewish community in Venez uela, in diverse fields. Now for the first time in his headquarters, the Museum organized a solo retrospective of an artist, expanding its scope. Furthermore, collaboration with the Museo Kern goes in the direction of integration between organisms we Ashkenazi and Sephardic culture, and mutual support in looking for optimum results.
Kern Museum, traditionally dedicated to its various activities, to present the works on paper by artists Venezuelan Jews, this time shows a set of 21 unpublished drawings of Margulis.
Margulis Walter was born in 1950 in Caracas, in the heart of a Romanian Jewish family. Architect training (graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York), from an early age he devoted himself to drawing and painting, he studied at New York Studio of Painting, Drawing an d Sculpture. He made his first solo exhibition at the Institute Neuman, Caracas, followed by five more, until his death in 1994. Other awards, received the NIH at the National Tribute Armando Reveron (1989) and Hall Award Lovera Juan Arturo Michelena (1990). Had a distinguished teaching at the Institute of Design and the Neuman School of Architecture, Universidad Simón Bolívar . His work is represented in the National Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo Alejandro Otero and E. Morris Sephardic Museum Curiel in Caracas, as well as the Museum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . After a first stage influenced American Expressionism, and where there are still some features figurative, his work is oriented towards geometry sensible American (1984-88), and his paintings are characterized by flat geometries then deconstructed in a dominant blues and greens, and in its simplicity and rationality, leave and introspective glimpse into the character all their work. In a second stage, to 198 8, dilute color drawings for all-over "without a focal point covering the entire surface of the material, whose format is wide. In its last phase, from 1989 to 1994, darkens the palette while the trend for monochrome, the textures become actors and create effects mater. This exhibition will give the work of Walter Margulis its due importance within the Venezuelan art years eighties, stage, after both experiments in conceptual art as drawn traditional signal of a mass return to painting and particularly the neo-informality found in one of the artist its most brilliant exponents.
