Alejandro Otero

Art Brokerage: Alejandro Otero Venezuelan Artist: b. 1921-1990. Alejandro Otero produced some of his most important pictorial series in Paris, including Las Cafeteras (The Coffee Pots), painted between 1946 and 1948, which marks his transition from representation to abstraction. These latter works, dynamic collages that featured a tight weave of horizontal and vertical bands of multihued paper, show the artist experimenting with the spatial and optical effects of line and color. Between 1955 and 1960, he developed the extraordinary series of seventy-five Colorhythms, one of his major contributions to the field of painting. In 1955, Otero produced his first Colorhythm. In 1958 Otero was awarded the National Prize for Painting in the Official Salon, and in 1959 he represented Venezuela in the Biennale of São Paulo, receiving an honourable mention. He is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In the 1960s he abandoned painting in order to work on a larger scale in his civic sculptures, such as Delta Solar. Towards the end of his life he carried out many monumental public art commissions in many American cities. Listings wanted.