Bartus Bartolomes

At the beginning of the 1990s he returned to Caracas and tried to develop some graphics proposals subscribing to the project to edit Nadja, a magazine with writers JJ Villa Pelayo, Gustavo Ávila, Milagros Bello, A. Barrios and G. Perez Rescaniere. The group disbanded prematurely due to divergent political conceptions.

Bartus returned to Europe in the mid-1990s and began his project on Global Rights of drinkable water, looking to motivate the international community in the creation of large water caves to fill in periods of drought at 65 countries experiencing shortages of fresh water seasonally and with more intensity in recent years by the failure of most governments International Agreements both in the area of Sustainable Development as the environment from Kyoto Treaty.

In the early 1970s, away from these trends, he published a new manifesto in San Francisco proclaiming a Transpositionism; a search on new proposals as symbolic calligraphy, haiku and visual art from which he proposed the new denomination Graphi-kú a combination between Haiku and Graphic.

Upon completing his secondary education at Colegio de la Salle in the city of San Cristóbal in Venezuela, where he held his first exhibition of paintings when he was 17 years old, Bartus traveled to Europe and lived in Paris from 1968 until 1974, participating in the student movement that generated the famous Mai 68, and attended some of the most advanced institutes of the time, including the École Normale Supérieure, the École des Beaux Arts and the University of Vincennes, Paris VIII.

Bartolomé Sanchez (born 1950), better known as Bartus Bartolomes, is an artist born in the andean town of Pregonero, the state of Táchira in Venezuela. He is currently based in Italy and France. Bartus creates using a wide range of mediums, including painting, drawing, caricature, photography, design and even poetry. In 1969 he wrote "Kitsch Art", a manifesto promoting street artistic experimentalism.

His family owned the Sanchez Pernia Estate, one of the largest coffee plantations in the country covering more than 90,000 hectares from 1898 up to the 1960s. However, the newly emerging governments from the 1960s, riding the wave of a new oil boom, began to expropriate the land and reduced the agricultural production of coffee and other crops to a minimum.