Estuardo Maldonado
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Estuardo Maldonado (born 1928) is an Ecuadorian sculptor and painter inspired by the Constructivist movement. Maldonado is a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique Tábara. Other members of VAN included, Aníbal Villacís, Luis Molinari, Hugo Cifuentes, León Ricaurte and Gilberto Almeida. Maldonado's international presence is largely due to his participation in over a hundred exhibits outside of Ecuador.
Born in
In 1955, Maldonado held his first exhibitions in Guayaquil, Portoviejo, and Esmeraldas. In 1956,
Maldonado's work depicts abstractions of nature. His ancestral roots are also evident in some of his works based on
Maldonado's work has been celebrated throughout the world for successfully combining nature with innovation while addressing the relationship to his Andean roots.
In 2009, Maldonado was awarded the Premio Eugenio Espejo, his country's most prestigious National Award for Art, Literature and Culture presented by the President of Ecuador.
Museums and exhibitions
- 1956 - House of Ecuadorian Culture, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 1964 - Biennial of Venice, Venice, Italy
- 1974 - Center for the International Studies of Constructivist Art, Bonn, Germany
- 1974 - Marcon IV Gallery, Rome, Italy
- 1977 - Abstract Currents in Ecuadorian Art: Paintings by: New York, New York, U.S.
- 1985 - First Latin American Symposium of Sculpture of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- 1985 - Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.
- 1986 - Ecuadorian Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- 1987 - I Biennial International Painting of River Basin, River Basin, Ecuador
- 1987 - Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA), New York
- 1988 - XX Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1991 - Masters of Latin America, Nagoya, Japan
- 1994 - Gallery of Nadar Art, Dominican Republic
- 1998 - Museum of Italian Art, Lima, Peru
- 2000 - Pontifica Catholic University of Ecuador
- 2000 - Museum of Modern Art, Santiago, Chile
- 2000 - Exhibition, Perth, Western Australia
- 2001 - Exposición Centro Cultural Metropolitano de Quito, Ecuador.
- 2002 - Antología"1945-2002", Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador.
- 2002 - Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de Valencia. L'Almudí.Valencia, Spain
- 2003 - Museo Luis Gonzalez Robles Alcalá de Henares. Madrid, Spain
- 2004 - Banco Central del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.
- 2004 - Galería Arte Jorge Ontiveros. Madrid, Spain
- 2004 - Sala Ayuntamiento L'Olleria. ValenciaSpain
- 2005 - Exposición en Chicago. Galería Aldo Castillo.
- 2005 - Fundación Jaume II el Just. Real Monasterio Santa Maria Valldigna. Generalitat Valenciana (Simat de Valldigna).
- 2005 - Sala Exposiciones Ayuntamiento de Elche. Alicante. España
- 2005 - Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago USA
- 2006 - The Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington, D.C., USA
- 2006 - Sala Autoral, Estuardo Maldonado, Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- 2007 - Galeria de Arte "CosmoArte Siglo XXV". Alicante, Spain
- 2008 - Ministry of Foreign Trade and Integration - Ecuadorian Embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany.
- 2008 - ArtMadrid. Madrid. España
- 2008 - Sala de Exposiciones Parque de atracciones "Terra Mitica" . Benidorm. Alicante, Spain
- 2008 - Expo Zaragoza 2008. Pabellón de las Artes de Telefónica. Zaragoza, Spain
Sources
- Barnitz, Jacqueline, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. University of Texas Press; Austin, Texas, 2001.
- Salvat, Arte Contemporáneo de Ecuado'. Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, S.A., Quito, Ecuador, 1977.
- Sullivan, Edward J., Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. Phaidon Press Limited; London, 1996.
External links
- Estuardo Maldonado Foundation - https://fundacionestuardomaldonado.blogspot.com/
- Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo - https://web.archive.org/web/20050306200121/http://www.maac.org.ec/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060225143626/http://www.mmrree.gov.ec/
- Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- CosmoArte Siglo XXV, Alicante, Spain