Latin American

Artists
Lorna Benavides / Alejandro Decinti / Antonio Mro / Rafael Ramrez
F rom January 21-28 february 2010
Vernissage :
January 21 at 16:30 hrs.
Venue :
Foyer in the Main Building European Patent Office, The Hague
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Latin American Artists
Lorna Benavides Alejandro Decinti Antonio Mro Rafael Ramrez
Antonio Mro
Lorna Benavides
Costa Rican -Spanish sculptor and painter.
In 1982 she obtained the Academic Excellence
Scholarship in Sculpture in the admissions
process at the Academia de San Fernando,
Madrid. She graduated in Fine Arts from
Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, and San
Carlos Fine Arts Universty, Valencia.
Since 1986 Ms Benavides has participated in
several single and joint sculpture and painting
exhibitions throughout Spain, and since 2002
she has taken part regularly at the Salon de
Sculpture et Peinture in Gers. In she was
selected as the sculptor for the Parque La Pinada
in lEliana, Valencia.
In 1994 she founded the Academia Crculo de
Arte, where she teaches and exhibits her work.
www.bebevilo.com
Alejandro Decinti
Chilean-Italian painter. He graduated in fine arts
from the University of Chile. He moved to Spain
in 2002.
He was admitted to the Faculty of Arts of
the University of Chile, and was awarded the
Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991
admission process to Chilean universities. He
obtained the first place in the Arte en Vivo
painting competition in 1994 and was granted
a post-graduate scholarship from the Fundacin
Arte y Autores Contemporneos at Madrid.
Together with Chilean artist Oscar Villaln, he
established the Decinti & Villaln Painting Studio
based at Calle del Castillo, Chamber, Madrid,
where they actively teach and strive to promote
painting.
www.decinti.com
Antonio Mro
Born and raised in Peru. He has lived in Europe
since 1950. He studied painting in Stuttgart,
under Willi Baumeister.
He has staged a series of individual exhibitions
in many European countries, as well as in Latin
America, Canada and the USA, such as at the
Ateneo San Basso, Venice Biennial, 1982-1986;
the European Parliament, 1994; the Museo de
la Nacin, Lima, 1995; The Instituto Cultural
Peruano-Norteamericano, Lima, 1996; the
World Trade Center, Jakarta, 1996; the Chan Mai
University Museum, Bangkok, 1996; the Working
Peoples Palace, Forbidden City, Beijing, 1996; the
Contemporary Arts Museum, Lima; the National
Library, Berlin, 1998; the Kunsthof Gallery, Berlin,
1999; the Frascati Art Museum, Rome, 2005;
the Instituto Latino Americano, Rome, 2006; the
Mosaique, International Contemporary Art, Pont
Saint Marie, Brussels, 2007.
www. antoniomaroart.com
www.antoniomaro.com
Rafael Ramrez
Peruvian painter; he is Antonio Mros son.
As a 12 year-old boy he worked in his fathers
atelier, producing with him several works for
various exhibitions, including the Venice Biennial,
festivals and other public works on a large scale,
such as the Stadthalle at Hilden, as well as
chapels in Salzburg and Eifel.
He enrolled in the Superior School of Painting,
St. Luc at Liege. He also studied with Rolf Koller
and Schaffmeister in Cologne. He studied history
of art, philosophy and literature to deepen his
knowledge for the themes of his big pictorial
cycles in the RTWH, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.
He has carried out portraits, nudes, abstract
and sacred paintings (such as Saint Elizabeth in
the entrance of the Santa Isabel de Lima Clinic,
Peru), as well as copies of 17th Century masters
in Vienna and Antwerp.
www.rafaelramirez.eu