Paul Camacho
Morovis, PR, 1929 - San Juan, PR, 1989
Morovis, PR, 1929 - San Juan, PR, 1989
Painter and set designer. Camacho attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Beginning in the seventies he exhibited, both individually and in group shows, in Puerto Rico and the United States, and he took part in competitions in the U.S. and Europe, receiving several prizes and honorable mentions through the years. In the seventies, he, Luis Hernández Cruz, Antonio Navia, and Lope Max Díaz became the founding members of the Frente Group, which, despite its short life, published a newspaper of the same name as well as a portfolio of prints. Camacho’s work is characterized by his preference for the “hard edge” style and by its geometry. As Camacho himself said, art should reflect the surrounding reality, and that reality includes “technology, with its suggestive forms of the future”; almost all his work reflects this ideology.
“The artist is merely a vehicle that reflects its environment and produces a tangible and graphic expression of what surrounds us, over a process of synthesis. Part of our surroundings is the technology with its suggestive forms of the future. It is not saying that they are literal forms, but they can be groups of forms that carry the latent sense of the future. The plastic artist can give visible form to the currents of society and can have foresight of the world to come. Has to maintain itself open and not come to conclusions.”
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Paul Camacho: El Redescubrimiento, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Arte e Identidad. San Juan, P.R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998.
Los tesoros de la pintura puertorriqueña. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. San Juan, P.R. 2000.
Rodríguez, Jorge. “En busca de un espíritu en la nueva tecnología”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 26 de marzo de 2009.
González, Leyra. “Cita a las 8:08 pm”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 4 de agosto de 2008.