Quirología

Painter and filmmaker. Son of Miguel Ángel Hurtado and María de Hurtado. He participated for the first time in a collective exhibition at the age of 18, with José María Giménez and Octavio Alvarado. While he was in high school, he moved to Caracas and, in 1946, with a scholarship from the ME, he enrolled in the School of Plastic and Applied Arts. In 1949 he received the prize for students of plastic arts in the X Official Salon. The following year he obtained second prize at the VIII Arturo Michelena Hall with Tres Árboles, and joined the Taller Libre de Arte.

His work moves from a rhythmic geometric abstractionism to an organic abstractionism, which later becomes expressionist. His pieces are oriented towards a graphic design that he would later develop in Paris, in 1954, under pictorial forms articulated around the dynamic game of black bars that stand out against a transparent and gloomy nocturnal atmosphere.

Hurtado returned to Venezuela in 1995 and settled on the island of Margarita (Nueva Esparta State), with brief stays in Caracas, while maintaining his workshop in the United States. Parallel to his work as a painter, Hurtado has also dedicated part of his talent to making films and audiovisual materials, including several documentaries on Venezuelan artists such as Vibrations (on Jesús Soto, 1959) and short films such as Metamorphosis (1964).