Carlos Medina brings two vast dewdrops to Pinta Miami 2022

With a new version of the Neutrino Spheres, which he showed in 2018 in the central gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris as part of the Carré Latin festival, the first devoted to Latin American art in the French capital, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Medina, born in Barquisimeto, Lara state, in 1953, arrives at the sixteenth edition of Pinta Miami, which opens on Wednesday 30 November with the ambition of remaining the region's most important art showcase.

Medina, recognised by the Venezuelan chapter of the International Association of Art Critics as the local artist with the greatest international profile, will take part in the Special Projects section, curated by Félix Suazo.

"Félix contacted me in Paris and told me that for his Special Projects proposal at Pinta he had pictured the work I did in the central gardens of the Palais Royal. We agreed I would present a new version under that concept in the new Hangar space in Coconut Grove," says the artist, whose work aims to geometrise nature and the universe.

On what visitors to Pinta Miami will see, Carlos Medina explains that Neutrino Spheres 3 and 4 "represent two great dewdrops that catch the neutrinos coming from the cosmos and passing through everything. I am after transparency, the imperceptible, light."

They represent two great dewdrops that catch the neutrinos coming from the cosmos and passing through everything. I am after transparency, the imperceptible, light

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Félix Suazo writes of Neutrino Spheres: "The proposal focuses on notions of immateriality, emptiness, lightness and light, while suggesting a metaphorical leap between extreme scales: from the microscopic to the macrocosmic, from the corporeal to the ungraspable, from the visible to the invisible."

A graduate of the Cristóbal Rojas school of fine and applied arts, studies he completed in 1975 with a solo exhibition at the Sofía Imber Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, and trained in stone and bronze sculpture in Carrara, Italy, Carlos Medina is a reference point for geometric sculpture in Venezuela, with more than 20 monumental works to his name, among them Fragmento de la Lluvia in Caracas, a three dimensional group resembling vast raindrops falling, which stands on the Francisco Fajardo motorway near the CCCT.

The artist has been invited to major symposia, biennials and fairs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions at prestigious museums and galleries in Venezuela, France, Spain, Italy, the United States, Panama, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Austria, Slovenia, Chile, Costa Rica and South Korea, among other countries.

Since 2016 he has lived and worked in Paris, and he is an artist of the emblematic Galerie Denise René as well as one of the artists of the Cruz-Diez atelier.

As well as featuring in the Special Projects section, a group of pieces from Medina's Neutrino Pattern series can be seen at stand C11, run by GBG Arts, at Pinta Miami 2022. Ascaso Gallery also opens the exhibition A Thundering Collision of Different Worlds from 1 December, with works by the artist.