Juan Vicente Gómez Landaeta
About
Juan Vicente Gómez Landaeta, known as Pájaro, is a Venezuelan painter born in Caracas in 1952. Grandson of General Juan Vicente Gómez, he was raised by conservative parents and spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Madrid, Spain, where he was influenced by classical painting. A self-taught artist, he began painting at age 23 and at 25 received a scholarship to study graphic arts, photography, and sculpture in Washington, D.C. After four years, he returned to Venezuela, settling away from urban life to develop his unique style called Metarealism, blending elements of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern art with surrealistic themes of dreamlike figures, objects, and landscapes in muted or chromatic palettes.
Metarealism, blending figurative, expressionism, and surrealism with classical influences
Selected Exhibitions
- SI, Galería Minotauro, Caracas (1981)
- 29 modelos para una fuga, Galería Minotauro, Caracas (1985)
- Soñario, Galería Clave, Caracas (1989)
- Vigilias, Galería D'Museo, Caracas (1995)
- Pájaro, Galería Alonso Arte, Bogotá (1996)
- Actos de Fé, Galería del Círculo Militar, Caracas (2001)
- Apertura, Mirarte Galería, Caracas (2003)
- Pequeños formatos, Mirarte Galería, Caracas (2005)
- Paisajes, Mirarte Galería, Caracas (2007)
- PEREGRINOS, Galería Punto de Arte, Caracas (2011)
- TIEMPO DEL RETORNO, Ateneo de Caracas (2014)
- EXPOSICIÓN PERMANENTE, Pájaro Fine Art Studio, San Antonio de Altos (2015-2024)