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- Virginia_Pérez-Ratton abstract "Virginia Pérez-Ratton is the pseudonym under which Virginia Pérez Johnston got known. She was a Costa Rican artist, art historian, art critic and curator. Peréz was born on September 16, 1950, and died on October 6, 2010, at an age of 60 years. She dedicated the last decades of her life to the promotion of visual arts and the development of artists in Central America and the Caribbean.Pérez obtained her academic degree in French literature at the University of Costa Rica. She got her first artistic study in France from Grace Blanco (drawing), Lola Fernández (painting) and Juan Luis Rodríguez (engraving). In 1987 she went on for a study of Engraving at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and later continued this study in Strasbourg.Since 1994, Pérez was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José. She organized a series of exhibitions of regional artists and stimulated many artistic initiatives. One of these, was her foundation in 1999 of the art center TEOR/éTica, with the goal to promote contemporary art from the region. She organized several conferences and international exhibitions.In 2002 she was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands. The jury described her as a re-inventor of Central America. According to the jury, she "managed to bring together the different artistic terrains of this fragmented and isolated region. With enormous tenacity she introduced artistic environments in and from Central America to each other and to the rest of the world." In 2009 she received the Magón National Prize for Culture of the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture and Youth.The last years of her life, she struggled with cancer. This decease turned out to be fatal for her, when she died in her house in Concepción de Tres Ríos, Cartago, on October 6, 2010.".
- Virginia_Pérez-Ratton birthDate "1950-09-16".
- Virginia_Pérez-Ratton deathDate "2010-10-06".
- Virginia_Pérez-Ratton deathPlace Concepción_de_Tres_Ríos.
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- Virginia_Pérez-Ratton comment "Virginia Pérez-Ratton is the pseudonym under which Virginia Pérez Johnston got known. She was a Costa Rican artist, art historian, art critic and curator. Peréz was born on September 16, 1950, and died on October 6, 2010, at an age of 60 years. She dedicated the last decades of her life to the promotion of visual arts and the development of artists in Central America and the Caribbean.Pérez obtained her academic degree in French literature at the University of Costa Rica.".
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