MIGUEL MIGUEL GARCÍA, OUTSTANDING VENEZUELAN CURATOR OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, PASSED AWAY

"He was a man devoted to the passion of art," wrote Gabriela Rangel, MALBA's artistic director, who shared years of work with Miguel Miguel in Caracas. "The art scene will be incomplete without him."

"It is with great regret that we announce the death of Miguel Miguel García, our dear and admired colleague," published Espacio Monitor, where Miguel Miguel served as curator. "He leaves in us an indelible memory of friendship, enthusiasm and generosity that will last over time."

Miguel Miguel graduated in graphic design from the Neumann Design Institute, Caracas and began working at Estudio Actual, Clara Diament Sujo's gallery. He studied art history and visual arts theory at Miami Dade College, Miami and museology, modern and contemporary art at the University of Paris, La Sorbonne. He was a founding member of the National Art Gallery, co-director of the M & O Gallery, and founding director of the RG Room of the Celarg Foundation. In addition to being a curator and museographer at the National Art Gallery and an intern at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 1983 he was the co-curator of the commemorative exhibition of the Bicentennial of Simón Bolívar, which occupied all the spaces of the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, as well as his traveling exhibition that toured more than 80 countries. He curated exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alejandro Otero Museum, Jacobo Borges Museum, Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art, Francisco Narváez Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, among other exhibition spaces.

Miguel organized the first solo exhibitions in Venezuela and Latin America of renowned artists as well as outstanding young people from emerging generations, and participated as a jury in salons, biennials and art confrontations. He also wrote for numerous national and international contemporary art magazines, catalogs and books. He was currently working as curator of Espacio Monitor, Los Galpones Art Center, Caracas.