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Ascaso Gallery, always pioneering yesterday’s and today’s talents, presents next May 20th the most recent works by Venezuelan-American artist Arturo Correa at its spaces in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Searching is a show comprising 24 medium-and-large-format works, revealing Correa’s intense and painstaking labor dedicated to explore the chaos of human nature through painting, in a constant quest to fathom the mysteries of life. "Deemed a respectable artist in the plenitud

Miami-based Arturo Correa lived his first 24 years in Venezuela where he achieved remarkable success as a young painter. Correa's father was a surgeon and his mother, a psychologist. As a child, he recalled listening to their heated debates. His father argued for the overriding influence of the natural sciences, governed by pragmatic, objective, rational thinking; his mother advocating for the subjective mind, governed by intuition and insightful reasoning. It was the classic

Arturo Correa portrays a different kind of beauty in his Caballos (Horses) series. These paintings are controlled by personal artistic rules and aesthetics determined by the imagination. Fascinated by the figure and representation of the horse, whether at its physical peak or some stage thereof, Correa’s creation is based on personal experiences that define his love and appreciation for the noble animal. Whether real horses or merry-go-round figures, they are classic images i