He is the author of eleven poetry books, seven recollections of essays, and numerous art exhibition catalogs.
[3] He studied Comparative Literature in Caracas at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, graduating Summa Cum Laude after writing a thesis on the Mexican poet José Gorostiza.
Later he pursued his studies in Philosophy and Art History in Toulouse and Paris (France), receiving a Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHHSS, Paris) in 1994, under the direction of Louis Marin and Hubert Damisch,[4] after completing his doctoral dissertation on Diego Velazquez.
He was a member of Grupo Guaire, in Venezuela, and took part at the Taller Calicanto under the direction of the Venezuelan poet Antonia Palacios, thereafter successfully pursuing his literary production to critical acclaim.
In 2011 he was appointed Curatorial Director of the XXXth São Paulo Biennial,[6] which he organized under the title The Imminence of Poetics,[7] an edition extremely well received both nationally and internationally.