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(b. Barranquilla, Colombia, 1946). Venezuelan painter and photographer. He studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Julio Arraga, Maracaibo. In 1964 he had his first one-man show in the Centro de Bellas Artes in Maracaibo and his second in 1967 at Galería 22 in Caracas. Obreg6n began working when official support in Venezuela for kinetic art was at its height. He thus seemed an isolated figure as he sought to make a symbolic, conceptual rediscovery of the Venezuelan landscape through two series of photographs tracing the ridge of El Avila Hill, Caracas, from dawn to dusk. In 1978 the Sala Mendoza mounted his exhibition El agua como cielo, and in the early 1980s the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas mounted Veinte disecciones.
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