Art & Artists From Colombia

ArtBo 2009: List of Top Colombian Artists

colombianart — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:10:30 +0000

List of Top Colombian Artists: Top 21 Colombian artists searched for WORLDWIDE. (2009)

The Cosmic Vision of Miguel de la Espriella – “Noble”

colombianart — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:37:28 +0000

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Colombian artist Miguel de la Espriella is presenting his latest artworks in the beautiful Caribbean island of “la Hispaniola” in the capital city of the Dominican Republic. These artworks form part of his Cosmic Vision series, a series that began to form around 2004 and which has matured in the last few [...]

LA Gallery: “Conquest” – an exhibition

colombianart — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:31:54 +0000

“CONQUEST” The idea of “conquest” summarizes what is going to be exhibited within the gallery. Two artists, one Colombian and one French, will explore the cultural icons in order to better understand their own culture. Two similar processes where these values are compared, demarcate territories, demonstrations of power, protect the identity …. Cultural identity with their symbols and [...]

The Strange World of Danilo Dueñas

colombianart — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:18:13 +0000

Danilo Dueñas is an artist from Cali and he will soon be exhibiting his work in the esteemed Casas Riegner Gallery in Bogota. His latest presentation uses “objet trouvés” or objects that he has found and combined to create a piece of art according to his aesthetic criteria which he bases on rationality and experimentation [...]

Pablo Tamayo: Questions the Concepts of Space & Geometry

colombianart — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:16:59 +0000

Space has no barriers or boundaries, objects and events that occur there are three dimensional in nature and have a relative position and direction. In his most recent work, Pablo Tamayo questions the boundaries, perception and reading of space. The artist presents his work in formal terms using a language inherent to the study of [...]

Angélica Chavarro: Miradas Urbanas

colombianart — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:31:57 +0000

Today I was invited to an exhibition at the “Camera de Comercio” in the Calle 93A in Bogota. The artist, Angélica Chavarro was having an individual exhibition of her latest work, providing a selection of pencil drawings, oil on MDF board and assemblage pieces relating to “Miradas Urbanas” or “Urban Views”. As the artist, who graduated [...]

Jim Amaral & Olga de Amaral: La Cometa: Meridianos | Strata

colombianart — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:42 +0000

I had hoped to have written before now on this exhibition of these two artists that is being held at one of Colombia´s best galleries: La Cometa. Fortunately the exhibition will continue till 9th December 2008! So if you are in Bogota I would recommend you take a an hour or so to get along [...]

Botero Going to Jail?

colombianart — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:47 +0000

Wow! So the world renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero is being investigated by the Italian “financial police” looking to recover what they say is owed in taxes – only the princely sum of one million dollars US. Botero says he owes nothing wrong and has only given work to over 120 artists and artisan of Pietrasanta, [...]

Where is Carlos Jacanamijoy?

colombianart — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:21:07 +0000

One of Colombia´s top artists hasn´t been seen around here for a while! What has happened to him? Where has he gone? Well, you will be pleased to know that nothing bad has happened to Carlos Jacanamijoy, it is simply that he moved to New York to work exclusively with the Leon Tovar Gallery. His work [...]

Free Art Once Again from El Tiempo

colombianart — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:19:50 +0000

Wow! This newspaper is really on a roll! Talk about selling culture to the “barrios”! You can get a book AND a serigraph from the biggest editorial in Colombia for the princely sum of just $10.00 from El Tiempo starting with an AWESOME work by Ana Merceds Hoyos – really it is unbelievable. Let´s face it, most [...]