(b Caracas, 16 April 1954). Venezuelan printmaker and draughtsman, active in France. He graduated in graphic design from the Instituto de Diseño Neumann-Ince, Caracas, in 1978 and studied lithography (1978–9) at the Centro de Enseñanza Gráfica (CEGRA), Caracas. In 1981 he moved to Paris. His work offers a fantastic vision of impossible architecture: oneiric cities are described through a delirious geometry, and within them are combined instruments of astronomy and alchemy, archaeological visions and futuristic technology, and maps and plans as objects of historical and scientific description. Examples of his work include My Refuge (1987), The Planet Looks at Itself (1991) and Venezuela: New Cartographies and Cosmogonies (1992). In three consecutive years he was awarded at the Salón Michelena, Ateneo de Valencia, the Bernardo Rubinstein prize (1978), second prize for drawing from the Instituto Nacional de Hipódromos (1979) and an engraving prize from the daily paper El Carabobeño (1980). He also won the Fundarte prize in the first Biennale (1982) of drawing and engraving at the Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas. In 1982 he represented Venezuela in the Paris Biennale at the Centre Georges Pompidou.