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Rafael Parratoro
Rafael Parratoro
Born	October 17, 1977 (age 46); Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Argentine
Other names	"Parratoro"
Alma mater	Central University of Venezuela
Occupation	Visual artist
Years active	1999-present

Rafael Parratoro

Venezuelan visual artist

Rafael Parratoro (Caracas, October 17, 1977), also known as just Parratoro, is a visual artist born in Venezuela. Specializing in kinetic art and augmented reality using the artistic technique known as moiré, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Mexico, China, Luxembourg, Italy and the United States.^[1]

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Biography

Decade of 2020 and present day

After participating in Miami with the group collection "Filled Parcels",^[14] in 2020 he was part of the "Digital Diderot Exhibition", a virtual space of augmented reality simulation developed in the Argentine capital.^[15]^[16]

Through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, Parratoro published the real-time animation book Pop on Pop, in which he presents 110 designs of his authorship. His work was included in Outside the Lines Too, a book published by Penguin Group in which artists such as Ryan Humphrey, Rainer Judd, Richard Colman and Jim Houser also participate. He also designed the game Frenetic Kinetic for the mobile platforms IOS and Android.^[9]

In 2021 he collaborated with photographer Gian Paolo Minelli in the show "Sonata de Cruces Posibles", exhibited at the Museo de Fotografía Itinerante FoLa in Buenos Aires.^[17] In 2022 he intervened the corporeal logo of the Lollapalooza Festival in Buenos Aires that welcomes the event,^[18]^[19] and made an augmented reality installation at the same festival.^[20] He designed the monumental facade of Tiendas Landmark in Unicenter Shopping in Greater Buenos Aires, which was defined by Forbes magazine as "disruptive and with movement".^[21]

In 2023 he was called by the organization of the Gardel Awards to design a new visual identity for the ceremony with a combination of optical art and augmented reality.^[22] The same year he participated in the exhibition "X Universe" at the event La Nuit de la Culture in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg,^[23] presented the exhibition "Favaloro x 100 pre" at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires in a tribute to René Favaloro, and made an intervention on the facade of the US Embassy in the Bosch Palace in Buenos Aires on the occasion of LGBT pride week.^[24]^[25] Since 2023 he has a permanent collection at the Museo Della Luce in Rome, Italy.^[26]

In 2024 Parratoro participated in the monumental sculpture "Resquicio cuántico: una obra de arte extraterrestre", exhibited at the Museo Campo in the town of Cañuelas.^[27]

Exhibitions

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Rafael_Parra_Toro

Rafael Parratoro

Biography

Early years

Decade of 2010

Decade of 2020 and present day

Style

Exhibitions

Group

Individual

References

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Rafael Parratoro
Born	(1977-10-17) October 17, 1977 (age 46) Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Argentine
Other names	"Parratoro"
Alma mater	Central University of Venezuela
Occupation	Visual artist
Years active	1999-present