Born in Venezuela in 1951, Milton Becerra built his artistic career around bold and transdisciplinary explorations. In 1976, following his second personal exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, he showed a growing interest in interventions in nature, part of emerging trends linked to ecology. Today he is considered one of the pioneers of land art in Venezuela. Through his works, he seeks to raise awareness about the contamination of rivers and the degradation of the natural landscape.
Each of his interventions has been rigorously documented by photographs, presented in exhibitions and publications in the United States, Latin America and Europe. This diffusion has largely contributed to its recognition within the movements of land art, ecological art and artistic nomadism.
The conceptual evolution of his work has naturally led him to explore new visual languages. This orientation was noted, in particular, during his participation, in 1980, in the 11th International Biennial of Young Artists at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Since the 1980s, Milton Becerra has lived and worked in Paris.
His unique artistic language, nourished by ecological, spiritual and cosmogonic concerns, literally gives a voice to nature. He is particularly recognized for his aerial installations, where suspended stones and linen fibers intertwine in monumental compositions, in constant dialogue with gravity and space.
In 1992, he created Xawara Yanomami Siglo XXI during his first expedition to the Amazon, invited by the Goethe Institute in Germany for the exhibition Arte Amazonas, Workshop International ECO92, a traveling exhibition presented in several renowned museums and institutions in Brazil and Germany, notably in Berlin.
In 1997, his research took him again to the Amazon, this time to the Orinoco region, in the heart of Yanomami territory.
The same year, he presented the exhibition Identidad (Identity) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, a proposal inviting the public to reflect on the notion of identity, through the symbolic use of money as a medium, thus sparking a deep meditation on our roots, our belongings and our humanity.