Otto Aguilar Rosas

 
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Otto Aguilar was born in Managua, Nicaragua. He graduated from the Fine Art School in Managua in 1977. In 1984 he received a fellowship to study art in Moscow. In 1990-1993 he was a teacher and director of the Fine Art School in Managua. Since 1994 he has resided in the United States and has had several individual and collective exhibitions.

"In his nudes and brief thematic, there is always an inexhaustiible explosion of sensuality. His figures continually exalt from the backgrounds which the artist works intelligently and patiently."

Julio Cesar Martinez de La Fuente (photographer and Writer). Excerpt from Cuaderno de la Plastica Nicaraguense, Codice Gallery, Managua Nicaragua.

Biography:

1958:                Born in Managua,Nicaragua
1974 - 1978:  National School of Fine Arts,Managua,Nicaragua
1981:                InternationalGathering of Young Artist,Trinidad,Cuba
1984 - 1986:  Fellowship for Artistic Achievement,Surikob
                           Institute, Moscow
1989 - 1990:  Teacheof Fine Arts School,Managua,Nicaragua
1990 - 1993:  Director of Fine Arts School,Managua,Nicaragua.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  12/4/2008: "El cuerpo Fragmentado," by Alvaro Urtecho, poet, Nuevo Diario Newspaper,
Newspaper.
2007: "Culture and Costumes of Nicaragua," by Steven F. White, California.
7/9/2006: "Planchas y abstracciones," by Luis Morales, director of Nicaraguan Institute of Culture. La Prensa Literaria, Nicaragua.
2000: "Cuadernos de la plástica Nicaraguanse," published for Códice Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua.
01/21/1998: "La Mirada Ausente," by Granz Galich, writer and critic, Text for the catalogue used in exhibit of Vacios y Paranois, Managua, Nicaragua.

 

EXHIBITIONS:
 
2007: "Auto de Fe"- Back to the Picture, San Francisco, CA.
2007: "Figura Humana"- Warnock Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2006: "Cuatro propuestas Mesoamericanas"- Michoacán, Mèxico and Añil Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua.
2005: "Irons of the Inquisition"- Añil Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua.
2004: El Aguila Gallery- Managua, Nicaragua.
2001: Códice Gallery - Managua, Nicaragua.
1998: "Emptiness and Paranoias"- Códice Gallery - Managua, Nicaragua.
1994: "Destiling Memories"- Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA.
1993: Back to the Picture Gallery- San Francisco,CA.
1998: "Flores en el Cráter"- Modern Times Bookstore- San Francisco, CA
1986: "Retratos de combatientes"- Galería El Molejón- Managua, Nicaragua


Inquisitions

 
Original works of art by exceptional contemporary printmakers.