Mario Abreu

Mario Abreu (August 22, 1919 - February 20, 1993) was a Venezuelan artist known as the "master of magic objects".

He worked as a laborer in Casa Benzo while studying at night to finish his primary education.

In 1951, Mario Abreu received the National Prize for Painting at the XII Annual Official Hall Venezuelan Art, allowing him to get a scholarship to continue studies in Europe.

Between 1952 and 1961 he lived in Paris, where he developed an intense intellectual life and began a new phase of his work.

[4][3] In 1975 he received the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela[5] and in 1985, Armando Reveron Award, granted by the Venezuelan Association of Artists.