Artscape Lab presents Edgar Negret

Thursday, February 23rd from 7-10pm join us at Artscape Lab for the opening reception of Edgar Negret’s solo show ‘Unyeilding’. Edgar Negret (b. 1920 – d. 2012) is a Geometric abstraction sculptor who works primarily with metal. The artist is known for his industrial sculptures that represent nature. The exhibition runs from through April 2017.

Edgar Negret (b. Popayán, Colombia, 1920). He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncuși. By the early 1950’s, he began working in metal in constructivist tradition. In 1955, his art was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. In 1963, he won the Salón de Artistas Colombianos, and therein became one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the 20th century. In 1968, he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize, at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial. In 1985, the Museum Negret opened. In 2010, he was awarded “Grado de Oficial” by order of the Congress of Colombia. Negret died, on his 92nd birthday, in Bogotá, Colombia.