Antonio Briceno #Photographe
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 5th, 1966. Biologist graduated at the Central University of Venezuela, is currently completing a Master´s Degree on Digital Arts at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Artist since 1987, has exhibited and published his works worldwide.
Exposition Exhibition : Gods of America, A natural pantheon2001 - 2007 Modifier l'image
Several tens of thousands of years have gone by since humans came to America. Innumerable peoples and cultures have lived here, constructing a history from place to place while adapting the primordial gods, the archetypal images, to their particular environments, creating cosmogonies where the origins of human beings, animals, plants and gods are bound together in a knot that time has tightened. In the cosmogony and mythology of every people, the essential facts of human existence are repeated, taking local forces as protagonists and witnesses. Each hill, lake, river, desert, valley or stone participates in the creation of the Cosmos, and has a direct, personal relationship with the inhabitants who observe it and give it a name.
Jung says that the soul contains all the images from which myths have arisen and our uncon...