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OctaviO OcampO <strong>Art</strong>e MetAMorfico<br />

e D i t i o N o L M S<br />

Available: May 2013<br />

ISBN: 9783283012120<br />

Price: £29.95<br />

Format: Hardback<br />

Pages: 160<br />

Illustrations: 140 col<br />

Size: 264 x 210 mm<br />

Language: English/German/Spanish<br />

Category: <strong>Art</strong><br />

Rights: UK & Eire, Scandinavia,<br />

E. Europe only<br />

Octavio Ocampo:<br />

Metamorphic <strong>Art</strong><br />

Octavio Ocampo<br />

Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexico‘s most prolific artists.<br />

Born in 1943 in Guanajuato, Mexico, he grew up in a family<br />

of designers, and studied art from early childhood. Ruth<br />

Rivera, daughter of artist and muralist Diego Rivera, and<br />

Maria Luisa Mendoza encouraged him to attend the<br />

School of Painting and Sculpture of the National Fine<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Institute. At the <strong>Art</strong> Institute of San Francisco, he<br />

studied acting and dancing and pursued both a film and<br />

theatre career. In 1976, he began to devote himself solely<br />

to painting and sculpture. Ocampo is known for works<br />

that are sometimes wryly sardonic, evocative paintings<br />

in which detailed images are intricately woven together<br />

to create larger images - the optical illusions fading back<br />

and stepping forward as you study the pieces, notice the<br />

details, and finally recognize the large scale intention.<br />

This is what Octavio Ocampo terms his “metamorphic“<br />

style. Several collections in Mexico contain his work, and<br />

individual works of his have been commissioned for former<br />

President Jimmy Carter, Jane Fonda, Cher and others.<br />

JOHN RULE Spring 2013<br />

<strong>Art</strong><br />

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