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Ricardo Benaim (Venezuela 1949-) Mixed media and watercolor 29 x 21" as framed. Benaim finished his studies at the Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann in Caracas in 1972. Eight years later he traveled to Paris to study engraving at Atelier 63 for two years. Between 1982 and 1986 he studied and taught at the Pratt Institute in New York. From then on, Benaim worked both as a teacher and artist. Between 2000 and 2012 he taught a seminar on materials and concepts for painting postgraduate studies at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón in his home city. It was there that teaching became a vehicle to inspire his own work. As an artist, Benaim works with painting, sculpture, assemblage, drawing, and engraving. He experiments with organic materials, metals, glass, and electricity. His pieces incorporate social, ecological, geographic, and economic dialectics as utopic quests, conceptual alternatives in the face of the inevitable destruction of the planet caused partly by the postindustrial world. His most important artistic investigations include the transformation of Latin American territory and his concern about that territory. Benaim has exhibited at institutions such as the AMA, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, and the Miromesnil Fine Art in Paris. He won First Prize at the Bienal Iberoamericana of Graphic Arts in New York in 1984 and the Armando Reverón drawing and Juan Lovera painting awards