Omar rayo and Agustin Cardenas Opening Friday October 1, 2021 at 7 PM1646 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135
An outstanding exhibition with works by Cuban artist Agustin Cardenas  and Colombian artist Omar Rayo will take place at the Gallery LATIN ART CORE from October 1 to November 39th.The exhibition is in honor of the Hispanic Heritage month.The collection of works exhibited are partly from private collections and from the Gallery.
Omar Rayo was a Colombian artist best known for his geometric abstract paintings. With Op art movement, Rayo distorted and overlapped forms to create a sense of vibrating light and volumetric shapes. Rayo, was an artist involved in various types of artwork, such as painting, sculpture, plastic, and caricature. He was best known for using Abstract Geometry as his style. Rayo was one of the foremost pioneers of Op Art. He studied drawing at Academie Zier of Buenos Aires. He was the winner of the 1970 Salon de Artistas Colombianos. His particular focus was Op Art, also known as Optical Art, a style which employs optical illusions that interact with viewers. Op Art is considered Abstract, with many pieces made only of black-and-white. Rayo was also known to use red and other colors. “In my words I use red and black as dominant colors. Pre -Columbian tribes used recolor in the same manner as we use black in contemporary western culture” said Rayo about his palette. Rayo gained widespread recognition in the 60’s and 70’s and is known as one of the most relevant  Colombian artists. His work is in private collections and museums, he founded the Rayo Museum to promote his art and other Latin American artists..
Agustin Cardenas was born in Cuba and is a descendant of African slaves from Senegal and Congo. His work incorporated aspects of his African heritage and of Dogon totems that have influenced his sculptures.He began as an artist in cuba he was a member of the creative group Los Once from 1953 to 1955. Cárdenas' work was exhibited several times in 1952 "Pintura Ávila Escultura Cárdenas" at the Palacio de los Trabajadores in Havana, and in 1955 he exhibited a selection of his pieces in "Agustín Cárdenas: 20 esculturas" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Cárdenas settled in Paris in 1955 and in 1957 joined the Surrealist movement there.Cárdenas was awarded with several distinctions during his life, including Segundo Premio VI Salón Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Salones del Capitolio Nacional, Habana, by the Cuban government (1953) and the Silver Medal XXXVII, Salón de Bellas Artes, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Havana (1955). En 1976, he was awarded with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and the Fujisankey Biennal Prize at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Fujisankey, Japan. In 1995 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas by the Cuban Ministry of Culture. His works can be found in many permanent collections around the world, including the Centre National des Arts du Cirque, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air in Paris; the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie at Saint-Étienne, France; the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Argel, Algeria; Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, and in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana in Havana, Cuba.