Prada Colón (Luis Prada Colón, Venezuela, 1976) is a sculptor trained at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, and at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (Iuesapar), in Caracas. His work is closely related to marine fauna, especially the representation of tropical fish and birds. This fascination with nature stems from the environment in which he grew up, in front of the beaches of Margarita Island and on the Caribbean coast of Anzoátegui.

The work of this artist maintains a balance between a figurative proposal with a delicate result, and another of contemporary forms that brings together aesthetic resolutions of notorious technical complexity. His language is characterized by the stylization of natural forms, and by creating designs through assembly, which sometimes facilitate the movement ―moderate or more difficult― of certain parts of the set. The works that we present has this particularity. The user can move them slightly to have different positions. In the materials that the artist uses, the reuse of metal objects such as bars, plates, tubes, beams, among others, is deprived, which he intervenes and couples until new designs are achieved.

Prada Colón has been awarded in different exhibition spaces. One of them is the mention of excellence and mention of the artists that he obtains in 2007 at the 35th International Snow Sculpture at the Quebec Carnival, Canada. He has also exhibited individually at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narváez in Porlamar; and in Caracas at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, at the Macolla Brote Creativo and at the Instituto de las Artes de la Imagen y el Espacio. Two of his large-scale artworks are located in public spaces in Caracas: Libélula at the Bulevar de Sabana Grande, PDVSA La Estancia collection, and Raya Carpa, exhibited at the Centro de la Diversidad.

Anny Bello