Conversatorio Hablemos de Juan Calzadilla will be exhibited at the GAN this June 16

Published at: 15/06/2026 10:40 PM

The Talk Talk Talk About Juan Calzadilla: Tribute to his cultural legacy, will be held at the National Art Gallery (GAN), on June 16 at 11 in the morning with free admission for all the public.

One of the aspects that will be exposed in the activity is the poetic legacy The City and the Absurd: It was the great renovator of contemporary poetry with antipoem, dark humor and irony. Co-founder of the avant-garde group El Techo de la Ballena (1961). He used words to portray Caracas as a neurotic and fragmented space, which made him the great poet of the pedestrian, details the cultural press.

On the other hand, the legacy in the plastic arts will be made available: Drawing as writing. For him, drawing and writing were the same impulse. Winner of the National Plastic Arts Award (1996), he stood out for his automated lines and his famous Multitudes: abstract and piled up human silhouettes that visually reflect the mass lost in the modern labyrinth.

Likewise, his legacy as an art critic and historian will be present in the discussion, which highlights how he dedicated himself to recording and analyzing the country's visual memory. He wrote crucial monographs on teachers such as Armando Reverón and Bárbaro Rivas. He worked tirelessly, from the National Art Gallery (GAN) to make art history accessible to everyone.

One of this artist's greatest contributions was to demonstrate that poetry is drawn, plastic art is critically thought out and culture must always be a mirror of the human condition.

Mazo News Team