Rolando Aguilar, Guatemalan Latin American Oil Painting Modernist Porch Scene, 1979

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Rolando Aguilar was born in the year 1957. He studied at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts of Quetzaltenango. He … more Rolando Aguilar was born in the year 1957. He studied at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts of Quetzaltenango. He has presented personal exhibitions and participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Quito, Ecuador, Taiwan, Norway, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Canada. He was director of the Regional School of Art "Humberto Garavito", of Quetzaltenango. He has won Gold and Bronze glyphs at the Art Paiz Biennial (1980, 1982 and 1984) and two awards at the Arturo Martínez Contest.
Efrain Recinos Cultural Center paid a special tribute a Quetzalteca arts character, The teacher Rolando Aguilar, who has worked for 30 years as Director of the School of Arts Humberto Garavito. He has taught many artists who are now well known both nationally and internationally.
He has had the opportunity to study arts in different centers, among which are mentioned:
Lic. In visual arts of the USAC
Political Science Studies at the Faculty of Political Science at the Rafael Landívar University (2004)
He has also studied film in France for several years. He has participated in different courses and training workshops on general pedagogy, pedagogy of art, Folk Art, plastic and scenic, ceramics, human relations, snow sculpture, choreographic design and others.
He has done personal studies in different museums, Superior School of Artistic Training in Mexico City, School of Arts of Basel (Switzerland), and National Institute of Fine Arts in Paris, France.
Creator and Director of the Academy of Art of Children's Villages
Co-founder and Director of the Regional Art School of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the city of Quetzaltenango
Founder and Director of Dance Jun Batz
He tells that in the SOS villages the students won prizes nationally and internationally and were able to exhibit their works in different countries of Europe and Asia, accompanying some of them. At an auction organized for this school, teachers of the stature of Efraín Recinos, Elmar Rojas, Juan Alberto González Coy, and teacher Sipacná De León, the latter who urged him to create a Regional School similar to the one that was in town. of Guatemala, the National School of Plastic Arts, dedicated to the teaching of the arts.
With his help, the teacher promoted a project. This was managed for a long time and took 3 and a half years to materialize. When Elmar Rojas was minister of culture and sports, the creation of 3 regional art schools was achieved in three places: Quetzaltenango, Chiquimula and Cobán. Of the three, the one in Quetzaltenango was finished first.
The teacher participated in the film "Pop Vuh", which took 4 and a half years to complete with the group Wajshaquib Bat'z and was produced by the activist Vida Amor de Paz, who met maestro Aguilar and the group on a trip to Quetzaltenango.

Group Exhibitions:
Quetzaltenango painting today, gallery el tunnel, 1984.
Painting of quetzaltenango in the National Library, 1992.
New dimensions of painting painting, Contemporary Plastic Gallery, 1989-1990.
Sun Gallery of the River, 1991.
Galerìua Eltunel, 1992,
Art Gallery of fine arts, 1994.
Gallery Art Investment, 1996.
Gallery point of art 1997.
Museum of modern art of Guatemala, 1998.
At International level The works titled: Painting by Guatemala in Taipei Taiwan Republic of China.
(artists: Valentín Abascal, Rolando Aguilar, José Luis Alvarez, Miguel Alzamora Méndez, Aracelly Alzamora, Enrique Anleu Díaz, César y Moisés Barrios, Carlos Marco Castillo, Filiberto Chali Xocop, Rudy Cottón Castillo, Salvador Simón Cumes, Vicente Curruchiche, Nan Cuz, Luis Díaz, Rodolfo Marsicovétere y Durán, Eugenio Fernández Granell, Juan Antonio Franco, Salvador Gálvez Mora)
Young painting of Guatemala at the Norwegian children's museum.
Painting of Guatemala at the bebb gallery of the city of yellow, USA.
The Engraving in Guatemala, popular theatre Ruben Dario, Managua, Nicaragua.
Painting of Guatemala in Shankar, India.
Painting of xelajú in the gallery of San Francisco California, 1997.
Contemporary Mayan art in Norway, in the cities of arendal, Stor, Fredriskstad, Moss, Sarpsbor, Bodo, Mold, Tromso, Karasjok Trondheim, 1998.
Art Center England year 2000. less