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Calvit, Mario
(b Panama City, 29 Jan 1933). Panamanian sculptor and painter. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Panama City (1950–53) and established his reputation with abstract or semi-abstract sculptural constructions of soldered unfinished iron. Although the metal surface is sometimes painted, most pieces have a rusty finish, for example Marine Flight (1972; Panama City, Mus. A. Contemp.). The lyrical realism of his paintings, such as Mythical Trainers of a Lipizzaner Horse (1982; Panama City, artist’s col., see E. Wolfschoon: Las manifestaciones artísticas en Panamá, Panama City, 1983, p. 401), is comparable to that of the Mexicans Francisco Corzas and Pedro Coronel, often with poetic or literary associations.
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