GAN inaugurated the exhibition “Uncensored” with the works of more than 90 visual artists

Published at: 16/03/2026 10:06 AM

The National Art Gallery (GAN) inaugurated this Sunday the collective exhibition “S in Censorship: nudity in Venezuelan art”, an exhibition that brings together works by more than 90 plastic artists from the National Museums Foundation and 18 contemporary creators, who approach the human body as a central theme from different artistic perspectives.

The exhibition proposes a reflection on the nude as a natural and expressive element of art, with the intention of breaking paradigms and moving it away from social, moral, religious and political vetoes. The exhibition explores body, sex and gender diversity through works from the heritage collection.

The researcher of the exhibition, Kelvin Arévalo, explained that the objective is to rescue the role of the nude in exhibitions linked to the study of the human body, a topic that had not previously occupied a central place in the institution's curatorial research.

“In contemporary times, the nude is kidnapped in the hands of pornography and of an entire capital industry that sees the body as an object of consumption (...) so, this exhibition is also a way of connecting with something very human, because the nudity of the body is a truly organic, natural condition, typical of the human condition, he added.

In addition, Arévalo specified that the goal of the exhibition “is to disseminate knowledge, our heritage and to Venezuelan artists (...) The main objective is to educate and communicate to the Venezuelan people about the value of the human body”.

The exhibition brings together works by prominent Venezuelan artists such as Mateo Manaure, Alejandro Otero, Armando Reverón, Marisol Escobar and Cristóbal Rojas, among others, whose pieces dialogue on a bridge between different periods and styles of Venezuelan art, with the purpose of disseminating the national artistic heritage and promoting a new view of the human body.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team