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Rolando Peña (born October 27, 1942) is a Venezuelan Conceptual, Multimedia, and Performance artist. In the Barsa Encyclopedia Britannica book of the year 1968, the art critic Stasys Goštautas wrote: “Rolando Peña (Venezuelan Artist), Founder and Director of The Foundation for The Totality (Group of Latin American art, based in NYC), is the pioneer in Multimedia- Psychedelics, Happenings, Performance shows in Latin America.”[1]
Early Life
[edit]Rolando Peña
Foundation for the Totality
[edit]In 1966, in East Village of New York City, Rolando Peña (Venezuela, 1942) founded and directed Foundation for the Totality along with Juan Downey (Chile, 1940), Manuel Vicente Peña (Colombia, 1949) alias Manuel V, Waldo Balart (Cuba, 1931), and Jaime Barrios (Chile, 1945). They compiled their points of actions in a manifesto published in the underground newspaper East Village Other (EVO) on August 1, 1967:
(...) is working in all media “to invade with LOVE and LIBERTY, the puritanical fields of the world (Mid-West, cruel steppes of Siberia, the White House ... of the Wallaces, the stereotypes of Madison Avenue, all military dictatorships, the dynamite belicose expansion, the hate between Arabs and Jews, the pious Moral Rearmament, the latrines of West Point, the commercial ambitions of the Vatican; to make the CIA and all the spies of the world take off their masks) and to make Mao copulate with the Statue of Liberty so they may engender a hippie son.” (...)
Foundation for the Totality brought together a group of Latin American artists to embrace the totality. The vitality of the context of the sixties, allowed them to develop a path of creative experimentation as well as particular aesthetics and sensibilities; in which everyone contributed to the dynamic whole from its sensitive traditions, knowledge, and experiences. The American artist Andy Warhol, who named Rolando Peña The Black PrinceItalic text, collaborated with Foundation for the Totality. Peña performed with Warhol in several happenings and actions for the films ****Four Stars(1967), The Loves of Ondine (1968), and The Nude Restaurant (1968).
With Rolando Peña as a catalyst, Foundation for the Totality and its members raised arguments and actions against the Vietnam War. They mixed Buddhism with mixed media, McLuhanism with religion, the hippie movement with the Beat. In any circumstance, they protested against established powers. They cultivated an irreverent sensibility which not only proposed to renew the forms of expression through experimentation, but it represented a singular and heterodox network of networks, dialogues, and testimonies that served as a contribution to the study and historiography of the cultural scene of New York and the presence and participation of Latin American artists.
Members of Foundation for the Totality
- Joseph Aliaga
- [[Carlos Anduze
- Waldo Balart
- Alfonso Barrios
- Jaime Barrios
- Gregory Battcock
- Carmen Beuchat
- Walter Bowart
- Jaime Caro
- Joe Dallesandro
- Candy Darling
- Divine
- Juan Downey
- Marisol Escobar
- Arturo Esguerra
- Chuck Federman
- Ana María Fuenzalida
- Allen Ginsberg
- Moira Hobson
- Nam June Paik
- Vicky Larrain
- Timothy Leary
- Casey Lee
- Noel Levert
- Juan Liscano
- Iván Loscher
- Roberto Loscher
- Gerard Malanga
- Taylor Mead
- Allen Midgette
- Marcelo Montealegre
- Mario Montez
- Isabel Morrison
- Paul Morrissey
- Billy Name
- Julio Neri
- Nico
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Manuel Quinto
- Pierre Restany
- Edie Sedgwick
- Diego Rísquez
- José Rodríguez Soltero
- Marcela Rossiter
- Carla Rotolo
- Simone Swan
- Diego Texera
- Angela Tirelli
- Ultraviolet
- Zezzar A. Vallejo
- Aldo Vigliarolo
- Viva
- Andy Warhol
Art, Science and Technology
[edit]Films
[edit]Year | Title (English) | Title (Spanish) | Role | Director | Notes |
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1963 | Tales for Seniors | Cuentos para mayores | Román Chalbaud | Film debut | |
1963 | The Red Disk (film) | El Disco Rojo | Protagonist | Amador del Villar | Film |
1966 | Full-Morning-Kissing-Invasion (film) | Invasión-Total-Matinal-De-Besos | Protagonist | Rolando Peña and Jaime Caro | Film, 8mm, B&W, sound, 35 mins |
1967 | ****Four Stars | ****Cuatro Estrellas | Actor | Andy Warhol | aka 24-Hour Movie. Underground Film. 16mm, color, sound, 24+ hrs. Showcased at New Cinema Playhouse, N.Y.C. |
1967 | The Nude Restaurant | El Restaurante Desnudo | Actor | Andy Warhol | Underground Film. Starring Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, Billy Name, Allen Midgette, and Rolando Peña. N.Y.C. |
1968 | Loves of Ondine | Amores de Ondine | Actor | Andy Warhol | Underground Film. N.Y.C. |
1968 | Che is Alive/AKA Dialogues with Che | Diálogo con el Che | Protagonist, Co-Author | José Rodriguez Soltero | Starring Rolando Peña, Taylor Mead, Ana María Fuenzalida, Carlos Anduze. Underground Film. 16mm, B&W, sound, 53 min. N.Y.C. |
1968 | Parra + Nemesio + Peña + Kitty = A Nightmare on Celluloid, aka Hommage to Nicanor Parra | Parra + Nemesio + Peña + Kitty = Una Pesadilla en Celuloide, AKA Homenaje a Nicanor Parra | Interviewer | Jaime Barrios | Starring Nicanor Parra, Rolando Peña. Underground Film. 16mm, B&W, sound, 44 min. N.Y.C. |
1970 | The Discovery of America | El Descubrimiento de América | Protagonist | Jaime Barrios | Starring Rolando Peña, Carmen Beauchat, Ana Maria Fuenzalida, Zezzar Vallejo. Underground Film. 16mm, color, sound, 85 min. N.Y.C. |
1975 | The Black Prince | El Príncipe Negro | Protagonist | Joseph Noel Levert | Starring Rolando Peña. Underground Film. Super-8. N.Y.C. |
1976 | The Babbling | La Cotorra | Director, Producer, Protagonist | Rolando Peña | Starring Iván Loscher and Rolando Peña. Underground Film. Super-8. Caracas. |
1979 | The Babbling No. 2 | La Cotorra No. 2 | Director, Producer, Protagonist | Rolando Peña | Starring Iván Loscher and Rolando Peña. Underground Film. Super-8. Caracas. |
Awards
[edit]Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009 [2]
Books
[edit]- The Standard Model of Matter: A Tribute to the 20th Century, artist Rolando Peña; authors Rolando Peña, Claudio Mendoza, (1993) ISBN 980-07-6068-7
- Mene Digital, artist Rolando Peña; authors Rolando Peña, Claudio Mendoza; sponsored by IBM Venezuela; computer graphic Thomas Fromherz; texts Alfredo Boulton, Pierre Restany, Claudio Mendoza, Thomas Fromherz; graphic design Victor Lucena; photography Nelson Garrido (1993) ISBN 980-07-1159-7
See also
[edit]- Foundation for the Totality
- Art, Science and Technology
- Jose Ignacio Cabrujas
- Happening
- El Príncipe Negro/The Black Prince
- Experimental Film
- Installation
References
[edit]- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rolando Peña". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rolando Peña". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
External links
[edit]- Rolando Peña at IMDb
- Official website
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- The Film-Makers' Cooperative