Background
Edgar Negret was born on October 11, 1920 in Popayán, Colombia. He grew up in a military family of Rafael Negret Vivas and María Dueñas Rodríguez.
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Edgar Negret was born on October 11, 1920 in Popayán, Colombia. He grew up in a military family of Rafael Negret Vivas and María Dueñas Rodríguez.
Initially, Edgar studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. During the period from 1933 to 1937, he attended the University of Cauca. In 1949, Negret temporarily lived in New York and studied at the Clay Club Center (present-day Sculpture Center).
In 1943, Negret held his first exhibition. While studying at the Sculpture Center in New York, he started to work with metal. At that time, the sculptor also met such artists, as Louise Nevelson and Ellsworth Kelly. In 1957, Negret participated in the São Paolo Biennial, where he exhibited his work, entitled "Aparatos Mágicos" (Magical Apparatuses).
By the year of 1955, his prestige was on the ascendant. He exhibited several times at New York's Museum of Modern Art with such exhibitions, as "New Acquisitions" and "Magic Aparatuses". In 1963, Negret returned to Colombia and settled down in Bogotá. His works during this time include Navegantes, Edificios, Puentes, Templos, Escaleras, Andes, Arboles, Bosques and Metamorfosis.
During his lifetime, he took part in the exhibitions, which were held at different institutions, galleries and museums, including Nebraska University, the Peridot Gallery of New York, the Petit Palais of Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., the Yale University Art Gallery and others. Negret's works were exhibited in such cities, as London, Berlin, Paris, New York, San Paolo, Bogota, Edinburgh, Caracas, Madrid, Osaka and others. In June 2009, the sculptor held his last retrospective at the Galería Mundo de Bogotá.