Cesar Andrade is an artist, poet and musician. As a kineticist, Andrade works with the geometry of nails and attempts to create a vibrating surface through them. The main geometric elements that determine the arrangement of the nails are the line and the point. Closeness and emptiness are balanced, creating a vibrant surface, while the diagonal and slanted lines create unexpected effects, transforming the surface into a grid. An essential part of Andrade’s work is light. Direct frontal irradiation would not produce any depth. However, when there is an indirect, lateral light source, one can see a negative image of the work in the form of shadows that duplicate the surface area of the elements represented. Nails are the main elements of Andrade’s works.

born 1939 in Guarico, Estado Lara, Venezuela
Studied in El Tocuyo and at the L´école des Arts Plastiques in Barquisimeto
1964 professor at the Ecole des Arts plastiques in Acarigua, Estado Portuguesa, Venezuela
1968 exhibitions in Venezuela; Travel to Europe, move to Paris
1969 Intensive studies on the subject of lines, exhibitions of the first “linigramas” in France
In 1970 he took art classes with Franck Popper at the Université de Vincennes and with Jean Cassou at the Collège de France
Numerous solo and group exhibitions
lives and works in Paris