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ORLANDO CASTRO

ORLANDO CASTRO

ORLANDO CASTRO
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: Cosmica
Medium: Oil
Size: 30" x 53"
Cost: $5000
Web: Orlando Castro
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: Sacra II
Medium: Oil
Size: 24" x 40"
Cost: $3000
Web: Orlando Castro
CASTRO CASTRO
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: Aliengena
Medium: Oil and Oilstick
Size: 5.2" x 70.5"
Cost: Contact Artist
Web: Orlando Castro
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: As Good as it Get
Medium: Oilstick
Size: 48" x 28"
Cost: Contact Artist
Web: Orlando Castro

Artist Statement:

The art is an expression form where alternating worlds of other dimensions are created where the limit is the imagination. My dimension as far as the art, is inspired mainly by the human figure, especially by the feminine one. I have worked with the feminine figure for a long time. The body is a surface of undulations and volumes of great expressive wealth.The curved line and the volume tied to the light and the shade, next to the color nourish my proposals of abstraction or figuration. The corporal landscapes with their natural and mysterious beauty inspire to me. These landscapes are transmuted in organic abstractions, in proposals of different nature that transport me to other dimensions, projecting my preoccupations, my ideas, my feelings.

Between those proposals I can mention the one of the metaphor of the cundiamor where boricua with cundiamor the tropical fruit compares the woman This is of orange color, red and green and projects the energy of the latin woman. The second proposal is the one of the body like tropical landscape. The third proposal is reminiscences where vague memory of the figure is transformed into organic abstraction like spontaneous expression of the subconscious mind.

 

Exhibitions/Awards:

Among his individual exhibitions in Puerto Rico are: 2008 "Reminiscencias" Ury Gallery San Juan Puerto Rico. 2006 Of the mythical thing ... and of the arcane thing, Dilan Gallery San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2004 Anverso y Reverso Gallery The House of Arts, San Juan; 2003 ...arropas de Cundiamores' Museum of Art of Caguas, Caguas; 2002 ...por un sendero entre mayas arropas de.... Gallery of the Department of Art, Interamerican University, San Germn.

ome collective exhibitions are: 2006 International Artist in California, Latino Art Museum, Pomona, California USA; 2006 ARWI Art and Wine Fair Puerto Rico Convention Center San Juan Puerto Rico; 2006 Hispanic Heritage in America, Museum of the Americas, Miami Florida USA; 2005 Sixth Collective of Artists of the Valley of the Turabo, Museum of the University of the Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, International Fair of Gent's Art, Belgium Pavilion of the Art, Frankfurt, Germany, Lounge Vald'Or, Paris, France . Presencia Boricua, Museum of the Americas, Miami, Florida, USA; 2003 There shows Native of Plastic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002 Plastic Artists of the Valley of the Turabo, a Decade of Creation 1992-2002 University of the Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico; Forceful, Gallery Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Nominated as Best Collective Exhibition of Puerto Rican (AICA) 1991 ' Sixth Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Of The Beautiful Gallery ', Toronto, Canad

Among his more important distinctions they are: 2006 First Prize International Artist in California,Latino Art Museum, Pomona California USA; 2006 Honorary Mention Hispanic Heritage in America, Museum of the Americas Miami Florida USA; 2002 I Reward The Best first Individual Professional Exhibition, Critics' International Association of Art (AICA); 2001 The First Prize Painting (Medal UNESCO), National Exhibition of the Puerto Rrican Artist (ENDAPP), Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; 1984 The First Prize Painting and The First Prize in Draw, the XIth University Contest of Plastic Arts of the UPR, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.



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