Erlen Zerpa

Erlen Zerpa

Biography

Seboruco, Táchira State, Venezuela – June 5th, 1980

He began his studies in Architecture at the Mariana Batolomé de las Casas University (Colombia). Later, he obtained the Graphic Designer degree at the Monseñor de Talavera University College, San Cristóbal city, Táchira state. He specializes in Artistic Development and Restoration at the Instituto Statale d’Arte di Firenze Italia. Currently, he has permanent sculptures in the Antonio José de Sucre Av., at the Road Museum, in San Cristóbal city.

His works have been exhibited in important biennials, halls, and galleries inside and outside the country. His inspiration is based on the kinetic tendency, photography and graphic design.

He was born in Seboruco, located in the mountains of Táchira state. Since he remembers, He has always felt surrounded by creativity, although he lacks a good memory. His family says that since he was a child, before starting preschool he did his first work: a forest, made with recycled material. Even his relatives keep drawings, portraits and posters that he gave them.

However, Seboruco does not have spaces for children and adolescents to begin in the plastic arts, for this reason, his first approach to art was completely innate. It was after nishing high school when he decided to study Graphic Design and photography in San Cristobal, Venezuela.

After graduating he worked as an advertising creative, a career that brought him closer to visual art as the profession that nowadays he continue cultivating academically and professionally.

This approach awoke his interest in these two areas: design, which communicates in a more direct and accommodating way; and the art that invites to reection, and delves into the most internal and sensitive aspects of the viewer.

His work as an artist at first seeks to educate people through sensitization. It is his way to express his reactions – although intimate and deep – which are reacted in the work so it generates a personal interpretation in each spectator, the reaction through the game, generated in the mind
of the observer.

Based on this idea, he seek to take photography to kineticism, exploring vibrant sensations in each piece where the image is reected through lines that form three-dimensionality in the space.

Erlen Zerpa - Visual Artist
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