Rolando Peña

One day I was walking in the center of Caracas, in El Silencio, and I saw a sort of cubicle which I could get inside, add some coins, and take a picture: another great discovery in my life; and the beginning of the series of Photomatons. My first Photomaton is from 1960, a forerunner artwork within contemporary art, and it is a proposal that I keep working on to this day. Some years later, it occurred to me to mix a series of photomatons, as collages in dialogue with images of perspectives. That is how my series The Seven Vanishing Points emerged. The idea of using photography, like mirrors, has been a leitmotif in all my work.