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MARINA NUĂ‘EZ DEL PRADO

Marina Nunez del Prado (1908-1995) , was one of the most acclaimed sculptors of Bolivia.1 worked mainly with black granite , alabaster , basalt and white onyx , so with many types of native woods of Bolivia . His work was characterized by heavy figures But with many curves and sensuality and stylized female bodies. In Bolivia they celebrated in 2008 its centennial date for his birth.

EMILIO LUJAN

ZAPANA SERNA, Victor (Copacabana, La Paz, Bolivia, 1926 - La Paz, 1997) .- Artist sculptor. He studied at the School of Arts 'Hernando Siles' (1954), where he studied with Alejandro Gonzales Aramayo. He taught at that school and career arts UMSA. He exhibited his work since 1950. Worked Flavio orders Machicado Viscarra in Comanche Quarry as Head of Production. His main works are: Monument to the Unknown Soldier (Potosi, 1963); Monument Adela Zamudio (1977); Bust Aymara Huyustus basalt stone thinker (LP, 1977); Monument to Ekeko (LP, 1977); Soldier Monument of the Chaco War (Headquarters Conexchaco, LP, 1989). He also made several images of religious nature, such as that found in the chapel area Pampahasi. A studious say Pentimalli Micaela, "The sculptor professed a pantheist feeling of life in a romantic vision of belonging of all beings, animate and inanimate, Nature; for Zapana, the stone block enclosed forms that the artist 'found'. The topics that were represented animals of the Andean fauna ".

GONZALO JACINTO CONDARCO CARPIO

CONDARCO CARPIO, Gonzalo Jacinto (Corocoro, La Paz, Bolivia, 1967) .- Writer. He studied at the Arts career UMSA (13 years), where he studied under Victor Zapana. Lies in the city of El Alto. Asked about what he thinks about his activity as a sculptor and the value assigned to it, said 2007: "Very unlike many critics within art, and historians, I think sculpture is more complete than the painting; you write a lot about painting, sculpture instead receives less attention, however, but because the writer can not go to the monuments to do the studies, in the street, in the rain, and move; instead a painting can roll up and move. Sculpture is a passion for me, breathing sculpture, say I have blood stone, a stone spirit, a passion for carving stone before other materials such as wood, which is not like many, bronze, yes taste but primacy, the stone is very important. " One of his major works is the monument to the writer Antonio Paredes Candia, installed in a square in the city of El Alto and discovered in February 2007. At the Museum 'Antonio Paredes Candia, are other works of authorship.