Neb. - A variety of paintings, sculpture and colored engravings from the Paris and Colombia studios of Pedro Angel will be on display when the Pedro Angel exhibit opens Wednesday, Jan. 24 in Wesleyan's Elder Gallery. The show will run through Feb. 18. An opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. Professor Pedro Angel, of Narino University in Colombia, will present a public lecture on the engraving process and the history of the Atelier during the opening. Elder Gallery is located in the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Avenue. The gallery is open 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
All exhibits are free and open to the public.
He has served as professor at Valle University in the Department of Integrated Arts, directed the Module of Plastic Arts, Foundation Multistudio of Didactic Materials, and served as vice-deanship of extension programs in drawing, human body and printing. He has also served as professor in the Faculty of Postgraduates at Antonio Nation University in Colombia, with specialization in education in culture, artistic appreciation and critique. He has exhibited his work in the Colombia, the United States, France, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Angel's abstraction was one of the languages of the twentieth century. Renouncing the anecdote and the representation of nature as an end in itself, it became an objective in the hands of the avant-garde artists.