page_title: Bartus Bartolomes
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Bartus Bartolomes / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Art from Bartus Bartolomes Mix Media, Ink &amp; Acrilic. Dimension: 1 m x 1.40 m.
context_page_description: Bartolomé Sanchez, better known as Bartus Bartolomes, is an artist born in the andean town of Pregonero, the state of Táchira in Venezuela. He is currently based in Italy and France. Bartus creates using a wide range of mediums, including painting, drawing, caricature, photography, design and even poetry. In 1969 he wrote "Kitsch Art", a manifesto promoting street artistic experimentalism.
context_section_description: As told by French writer Gérard-Georges Lemaire: 
  The artwork of Bartus Bartolomes transpires in an association of heart and mind that fuels his passion for art in all of its expressions. His creative endeavors are not static as though they might appear, rather they suggest a movement suspended between reality and representation of our contemporary society as it relates to social and geographical diversities, ethnical conflicts, political and cultural ambiguities, that includes a metaphysical research of humane solutions which dislocate or denounce the aesthetical camouflage of contemporary art.
  The originality of his approach resides in the interior logics, which animate Bartus the artist. These interior reflections of the artist generate a dynamic that leads him to expand his energetic connections with a geographical territory combining the joyful freedom of his feelings with the ample variety of intellectual motivations that when joined in his process, never jeopardize the wholeness of his approach."
  
  One of the main motivational targets implicit in his graphic creations has been to show, project, or portray his own reflections of what it means to survive as an artist who creates and produces in a cultural environment where civilization, the destruction of natural resources and contamination go hand in hand on a day by day basis, unstoppable, everyday.
  — Gérard-George Lemaire, "Les masques et la plume de Bartus Bartolomes", visuelimage.com (12/07/2012)
  Carlo Marcello Conti, art critic, writes:
  The artist juxtaposes exotic influences from as far as Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America to articulate his discovery of asymmetrically iconography art contrasts between East and West, expanding metaphoric visions, transcending barriers of time in the plastics imagery and converging into a new archaeology of meta-signs and poetry.
  — Carlo Marcello Conti, "Bartus Bartolomes", https://www.miaminewmediafestival.com/bartus-bartolomes-2017/ (2017)
caption: Mix Media, Ink & Acrilic. Dimension: 1 m x 1.40 m.
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