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VITAE
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MANUEL ORTEGA
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| Born in Santiago de Veraguas (Panamá) in 1956,
Manuel Ortega graduated from the Panama Escuela de Bellas Artes in 1981.
A scholarship from the Panama Government enabled him to carry on his fine art studies in Europe. At the end of 1983 he moved to Florence, where - the following year - he attained a diploma in painting at the Istituto Statale d’Arte. With a scholarship from the Rome branch of the I.I.L.A. (Italian-Latin American Institute) he attended the Specialisation Course in black and white Etching at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica d'Arte Il Bisonte (International School of Graphic Art ) in Florence, where he also specialised in Colour Etching between 1985 and 1986. In 1986 he started working at Il Bisonte, first as a course assistant, and since 1991 as a teacher in Etching Techniques. In 1989 he opened the art atelier ‘Urraca’, where he still tutors a group of etching artists. Besides a considerable number of personal shows (Bressanone, 1986; Firenze, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996; Panama City, 1998), Ortega has taken part in a number of important international exhibitions. In 1990, 1998 and 1999 he participated as special guest to the ‘IX Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe’ in San Juan de Puerto Rico. Always interested in the transmission of Latin American artistic culture to Italy and Europe, Ortega has been curator of the painting section at the first ‘Festival Latino-Americano e del Caribe’ in Florence. Since 1992 he organises and curates a yearly printmaking exhibition for the Ricomani (SI) City Council. In 1996 he took part to the first Latin America and Caribbean exhibition in Munich. In June, 1997, he was invited by the Ambassador of the Panama Republic to represent his country at the ‘XX Biennale di Venezia’, and - in the same year - at the ‘International Triennale Mondiale d'Estampes Petit Formats in Chamalièrs’, France. In 1998 he took part in the ‘Mostra di pittori panamensi in Europa’ at the Italian-Latin American Institute in Rome. He also had a personal exhibition at the Balboa Gallery in Panama City. In 1999 he resides at the ‘Premio Internazionale di Incisione’ in Biella and at an exhibition of the artists linked with Il Bisonte in Tokyo, at the Edogawa-Ku Center and Yamagata Cultural Center. |
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