Rodolfo Abularach
Rodolfo Abularach (January 7, 1933 – August 30, 2020[1]) was a Guatemalan painter and printmaker of Palestinian descent.[2]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Guatemala City. His work focuses mainly on the human eye.[3] He attended the Escuela Nacional de las Artes Plásticas in Guatemala City, starting in 1947 and graduating in 1954. Later on, he studied in New York City on a Guatemalan government grant, studying at the Arts Student League and Graphic Arts center.
His works were featured in a 2019 exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.[4]
Permanent collections
[edit]Permanent Collections (selection)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
AMA - Art Museum of the Americas (OEA), Washington, D.C.
Collection of Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
New York Public Library, New York
New York Interchem, New York
Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, CA
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Collection Grundwald
Sala Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Madrid, Spain
University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Museo de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
Sala Mendoza, Fundación Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Cartón y Papel de México, México, D.F.
Museo Cuevas, México DF
IDB - Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Colección Leticia Guerrero, Banco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
MUNAM - Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de Guatemala
Dirección de Artes, El Salvador
Museo de la “Pinacoteca Nacional”, La Paz, Bolivia
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Museo de Arte “La Tertulia”, Cali, Colombia
Fleming Museum of Art, Vermont
Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Lowe Art Museum, Miami
Alternative Center for International Arts, New York
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
National Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Consejo Mundial de Grabado, San Francisco, California
Museum of Art, Bagdad, Iraq
Museum of Art, Cairo, Egypt
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth,Texas
Museo Panarte, Panamá
Royal Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museo Del Barrio, New York
Banco de Guatemala, Guatemala
Museum of International and Contemporary Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad, Norway
Awards
[edit]1957. First Prize in Painting: "Central American Contest" Guatemala City
1959. Prize in Drawing, V Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1961. Prize in Drawing, New York University, NY
1963. First Prize in Drawing, "Current Art of America and Spain", Madrid, Spain
1965 First Prize in Painting, "Salon Esso de Jóvenes Artistas", El Salvador, C.A.
1967 First Prize in Drawing, Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela
1969 First Prize in Drawing, IX Festival of Art, Cali, Colombia
1970 Prize in Graphic Arts, Silvermine Guild of Artists, Connecticut
Foreign Relations Award, Biennial of American Graphic Arts, Santiago, Chile
First Prize in Drawing, National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
First Prize in Drawing, Pan American Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Cali, Colombia
1971 Prize in Graphic Arts, IV International Miniature Graphics Exhibition, New York, NY
1972 Prize in Graphic Arts, II Latin American Biennial of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1977 Prize in Graphic Arts, I Biennial of American Art, Venezuela
1980 Special Edition Award and Merit Award, III International Biennial, World Print Council, San Francisco, California
1987 Silver Medal, Latin American Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 Tribute Municipality of Guatemala;
2010 Tribute "Artist of the Year" from the Rozas Botrán Foundation, Guatemala
2017 Medal of the Orden del Arrayán, Guatemala
2019 Carlos Mérida” Award, Guatemala
Solo shows (more than 100 shows)
[edit]1947 Galería Nacional de Turismo, Ciudad de Guatemala
1954 Galería Arcadi, Ciudad de Guatemala
1955 Studies in Pen and Ink, Escuela de Artes Plásticas del Museo Arqueológico de Guatemala
1961 David Herbert Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Sala L.A. Arango, Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia
1967 Galería Schaefer-Diaz, Guatemala City
1969 Bucholz Gallery, Munich, Germany
1970 Galería Colibri, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Galería Vertebra, Cuidad de Guatemala; Graham Gallery, New York, NY; Pyramid Gallery, Washington D.C.
1971 Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia;
1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico; “Sala Estudio Actual” Caracas, Venezuela; Galería Fundación, Caracas, Venezuela
1974 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Ciudad de Guatemala; Galería Pacanis, México D.F.; Galería Forma, San Salvador, El Salvador.
1975 Galería Siglo Veintiuno, Quito, Ecuador; Galería Briseno, Lima, Perú
1976 Balería Echandi, Ministerio de Cultura, San José, Costa Rica; Galería Tague, Managua, Nicaragua; Galería Estructura, Panamá City; Alternative Center of the Arts, Nueva York, NY
1977 Arte Actual de Iberoamerica, Madrid, Spain
1978 Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia; Galería El Túnel, Guatemala City; Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
1979 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador ; Galería Panarte, Panamá City, Panamá
1980 Galería Partes, Medellín, Colombia
1981 Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia; Moss Gallery, San Francisco, California; Miami Dade Public Library System, Miami, Florida; Galería Arte 80, Panamá City, Panamá
1982 Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia; Borjeson Gallery, Malmo, Sweden; Galería Atenea, Barranquilla, Colombia; Galería Siete, Caracas, Venezuela
1983 Galería Diners, Bogotá, Colombia; Galería Etcétera, Ciudad de Panamá
1985 Museo Ixchel Guatemala City
1986 Galería Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia; Centro Cultural Portales, Cochabamba, Bolivia;Galería Época, Santiago de Chile
1988 Galería del Patronato de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de Guatemala
1989 Galería del Patronato de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de Guatemala; Galería El Túnel, Guatemala City
1991 Galería Plástica Contemporánea, Ciudad de Guatemala; Art Miami 91, Miami, Florida
1992 Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia; Museo Brattlebord, Art Center, Vermont
1994 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá
1996 Esculturas de Rodolfo Abularach, Galería “El Ático”, Ciudad de Guatemala
1997 Galería “Valanti”, San José, Costa Rica; Retrospectiva Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Paiz, Ciudad de Guatemala; Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1999 “Volcanos and other Fires” CDS Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Museo Ixchel (Arte Religioso), Ciudad de Guatemala
2005 Centro Cultural de España y Centros de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Ciudad de Guatemala
2006 Proyecto Cultural El Sitio, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
2007 Centro Cultural de España, Ciudad de Guatemala
2008 Retrospectiva, Museo Santo Domingo, Antigua Guatemala
2010 Galería El Túnel, Ciudad de Guatemala
2011 Museo Rayo, Colombia
2013 Museo Rayo, Colombia
2016 Galería Sol Del Río, Ciudad de Guatemala
2017 Centro Municipal de Arte - Correos, Guatemala
2019 Municipalidad de Guatemala
2020 AMA - Art Museum of the Americas (OEA), Washington DC
2021 Museo nacional Carlos Merida - MUNAM, Ciudad de Guatemala
References
[edit]- ^ Jumique, Andrea (August 30, 2020). "Fallece el maestro Rodolfo Abularach por problemas de salud". Prensa Libre. Guatemala. Retrieved August 30, 2020. (in Spanish)
- ^ Roberto Marín-Guzmán (2000). A Century of Palestinian Immigration into Central America: A Study of Their Economic and Cultural Contributions. Google Books: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. p. 83. ISBN 978-9977675879.
- ^ "Anita Sahpolsky Gallery". Retrieved Aug 31, 2020.
- ^ "AMA | Art Museum of the Americas | Organization of American States". www.museum.oas.org. Retrieved Aug 31, 2020.
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- 1933 births
- 2020 deaths
- Artists from Guatemala City
- 20th-century Guatemalan painters
- Guatemalan people of Palestinian descent
- 21st-century Guatemalan painters
- Guatemalan printmakers
- 20th-century printmakers
- 21st-century printmakers
- 20th-century Guatemalan male artists
- 20th-century Guatemalan artists
- 21st-century Guatemalan male artists
- 21st-century Guatemalan artists