Ascaso Gallery and The Julio Larraz Foundation Present Reciprocity
Miami, FL –September19th– Ascaso Gallery in collaboration with the Julio Larraz Foundation is proud to present Reciprocity, an innovative exhibition that unites a selection of works by Julio Larraz with pieces by eleven contemporary artists who have been personally influenced by his art and vision. The exhibition features Cooper Dragonette, Reyner Ferrer, Julio Figueroa Beltrán, Nelson Jalil, Maia Larraz, Reynier Llanes, Jefreid Lotti, Heidi Love Larraz, Edel Lugones, Leticia Sánchez Toledo and Yojacne Tellez.
Renowned for his extraordinary imagination and technical mastery, Julio Larraz has also been celebrated for his generosity in supporting and encouraging other artists. Many of those included in Reciprocity have not only drawn inspiration from his work but also benefitted from his openness and mentorship, shaping their own artistic journeys.
Founded in 2019 by the Larraz family, the Julio Larraz Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to preserving, promoting, and transmitting the artistic and conceptual legacy of Julio Larraz. The Foundation safeguards the future of his work and shares his vision with broader audiences.
At the heart of Larraz’s practice lies an uncompromising devotion to freedom. His paintings and drawings spring from an inventive imagination and an unwillingness to allow external forces to dictate his art. As he has declared: “Freedom, …the most important thing in Art.”
Reciprocity honors this commitment to artistic freedom while celebrating the dialogue and creative spirit it has inspired across generations
Ascaso Gallery stablish its headquarters in Valencia Venezuela in 1989. In 2002 Ascaso Gallery inaugurates its second location in Caracas, becoming one of the most relevant Latin American Gallery in the Americas. In 2010 opens a third location in Miami.
As of today, the gallery is poised to keep on working on consolidating its program through a series of proposals of relevant artists that represent a reference in International and Latin American, modern, and contemporary art, and in the meantime deliver an ambitious program dedicated to the most contemporary art trends and its capacity within the local and international context.
For Ascaso Gallery Reciprocity brings to fruition and closes an important circle that establishes the relationship between the work of a significant master and his disciples, thus opening the way to new generations of artists who will nourish the city’s cultural heritage.
Ascaso Gallery reaches Florida to offer the people of Miami and its surroundings a new alternative for cultural and artistic interaction, fostering encounters, introducing proposals of various tendencies, and projecting many different manifestations of Latin American art in their salons.
Dedicated to universal art of all ages, Ascaso Gallery emphasizes the exhibition and trading of works by Venezuelan artists, consecrated maestros as well as new talents.
Its branch in Caracas and its headquarters in Valencia possess as their most precious assets a lengthy trajectory and well-earned prestige in the art market, offering the Venezuelan public an important portfolio of artists and works, characterized by the ample variety of their exhibitions and unmatched quality of their services.
Based in Miami and Caracas, Venezuela, with over 30 years of experience, the Gallery has focused on modern and contemporary art, representing and promoting Latin American and International consecrated masters and mid-career artists.
