New CAF Gallery Online Exhibition: Venezuelan Creators MMXX

The pandemic has kept us away from traditional spaces, so we decided to take the CAF gallery to your home—or any other suitable location—, with a virtual tour of the new exhibition“Venezuelan Creators MMXX,” which invites us to reflect on the changes in trends in the world of visual arts in the past decade.

The CAF gallery is honored to be a meeting place of different ways of understanding art, now bringing together a group of artists who are currently active in their country. These are seven female artists of different trends and generations that encompass and summarize a fairly broad visual universe covering a very representative portion of this century and pave a momentous way for a transition between two decades.

“CAF—development bank of Latin America—thus fulfills its goal of showcasing the interesting advances of visual art, emphasizing the creativity of Venezuelan women. It also allows this progress to multiply, reaching new generations and other countries in the Americas, spreading the works presented in its exhibition halls and through virtual tours,” said CAF executive president Luis Carranza Ugarte.

Using rather traditional techniques and materials such as weaving, oil painting or ceramics, and taking up themes and objects of everyday life, Ana María Olalde, Ani Villanueva, Corina Briceño, Diana Carvallo, Diana Roche, Eli Pimentel and Gioconda Berríos reinvent themselves to create art with expressions of highly suggestive artistic contemporaneity.

“The variety of artistic proposals presented in this exhibition is a reflection of the creative impulse of seven Venezuelan women in this decennial transition, with different orientations, inspired by ingenuity, excellence and significance, with artistic responses to the particular situation facing Venezuela,” said Mariela Provenzali, curator of the exhibition.

This exhibition exalts a plurality of well-defined approaches visible in the work of these artists, whose world view is guided by philosophical, poetic, conceptual, plastic or historical reflections, in a sample of diverse pieces through which they express their concerns in the dawn of the third decade of the millennium.