Ministry of Culture awards the artists of the Elsa Morales National Art Salon 2025

Published at: 13/12/2025 08:48 AM

The Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, presented the award ceremony for the Elsa Morales National Art Salon 2025, an event that recognizes and honors the talent of the country's visual artists.

The call was attended by more than 1,200 creators from all over Venezuela, of whom, after a rigorous selection process, a final group of 450 outstanding artists was chosen to exhibit their works.

“As Augusto Mijares said: loving the Fatherland can only be done from the viscera, and an appointment that also meets us with Venezuelanism is this one today, the Elsa Morales National Art Salon, for the room, for its 450 selected from 1200 participants, for the vitality that this room portrays about the visual arts in Venezuela and also for its eponymous, by Elsa Morales, I ask for applause for her so that she may come to eternity for Elsa,” said Villegas.

At this award ceremony, it was announced that the final winner of the competition was the painter Roberto Notarfrancesco, from the state of Aragua, with the work “The Lady of Silence”, a piece created with the mastery of chromatism, evoking an emotional reaction from an aggressive and gestural brushstroke, representing human frailty, trauma and loss.

“This is the moment where you discover that you are really energy, that you are feeling, you are love and you are a ladder to heaven. We all have to work with our inner world because it really is what we take from here, and if you can capture from there, manifest, make matter what we are inside, we have earned heaven, thank you,” said Notarfrancesco.

In addition, four special prizes were awarded: Felicinda Salazar Prize, specialty Popular Art, winner: Domingo Escalona from the state of Yaracuy; Fina Gómez Ravenga Award, specialty Photography, winner: Nelson Sánchez from the state of Zulia; Luisa Palacios Award, specialty Graphic Arts, winner: Honys Torres from the state of Anzoátegui; Mérida Ochoa Award, specializing in Fire Arts, winner: Daniel Briceño, a native of Miranda state.

In addition, at this award ceremony, 27 awards were awarded as honorable mentions, for plastic artists who excelled in the various disciplines and categories that integrated this artistic, cultural and plastic competition.

“This event is here to stay, so that, once and for all, I invite the second Elsa Morales National Art Salon in the year 2026, to receive greetings from the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, and from the entire Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, its workers and workers. Prize-winning congratulations, congratulations to artists participating in the first Elsa Morales Art Salon! ”, said Villegas.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team