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Artist Statement

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Statement | Collaborative Art Projects - Milton Becerra | artmedia GALLERY - Miami FL - 305
#5, Milton Becerra with collaboration of Luis Villamizar

In my artistic work the creative freedom has led me to seek new means of expression, to seek and experiment within a larger area, where the adventure of creation results in an encounter with myself, the environment, particular events, and a world in constant evolution.

In the 70s, weary of a formalized art world, and museums and galleries with a superfluous culture without social purpose, I decided to go with my camera through the paths that led me to experiment with other artistic media… building what may be considered a device in the way of making "urban, social & ecological art" with a critical cut.

If the hegemonic urban planning constructs an image of the city in which its inhabitants are recognized and integrated, the counter-discursive urban art fractures that image and reveals the conflict and disintegration of both the urban space and its inhabitants. This also happens socially, culturally and, of course, in nature.

My vision, through optics and expressive forms, comes at a historic moment crisscrossed by a social context where political issues of the Venezuelan urban, social and cultural process- renewal that was covered with developmental promotional speeches from living in an ideal country.

It is no by chance that I decided to make artistic works with abandoned houses, old streets, destroyed commons, river margins, hills, where I inquired through the rubble left by the process of a country in ruins.

It is through the development of my artistic practices, designed more for a sculptural process detached from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional image, that these works are integrated into a dimensional world where not only their form or medium are taken into account, but where the medium and the form are regenerated to create new dimensions in art.