JULIANA VELEZ
CURATOR
IVÁN TOVAR
Cali, Colombia 1987
Maestro en artes plásticas del Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes de Cali, Colombia. Ha vivido, estudiado y realizado exposiciones colectivas e independientes en Colombia, Argentina y Holanda. Dentro de sus logros más importantes se destacan MARLOW 2015 exposición para la feria internacional de arte de Cali, Colombia, Todos los fuegos el fuego exposición
realizada para ARTBO 2015 feria internacional de arte de Bogotá, Colombia y Modo fuente obra en el espacio público que ganó el premio a la creación de artista emergente de la secretaria de Cali, Colombia 2015 y participó en el Low Lab Tech 2016 de la Saatchi gallery en Londres, Uk.
Su trabajo consiste en una exploración en donde
proliferan las formas y técnicas sobresaliendo las instalaciones y la adecuación de objetos hasta lograr atmósferas, generando con éstas, analogías entre el comportamiento de los materiales y los comportamientos, etapas y experiencias de la vida humana. Por medio del diálogo entre materiales, modos, imágenes y conceptos, se busca entrar en un espacio existencial, mental a partir del portal que abre el espacio de la materia intervenida, recolectora de la eternidad, memoria del tiempo.
DAVID LEÓN
Santa Rosa de Cabal, Colombia, 1982.
Illustrator, visual communicator and artist of the National School of cartoon and visual communication in Bogotá, Colombia, and of the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia.
He has developed and participated in initiatives and exhibitions in unconventional places at regional and national level.
Currently he is part of the art collective "Circular Presents" with which he has made several exhibitions being one of its founding members.
His work is based on a series of visual metaphors from which infinite paths of sense of reality are open. In the search for a confrontation between man and his life, the artist creates beautiful analogies between the material of choice and human nature: the ruin of progress represented in the brittle chalk material, the absurdity of understanding the allegorical mining expeditions and its whole universe inside a flower pot, hardness and human frailty represented by the clay and plaster.
ADRIÁN GAITÁN
Cali, Colombia, 1983.
Master of Fine Arts from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia, and winner of the award young artist of the Ministry of Culture in the 2014, Adrian Gaitan is an artist with a major experience in Latin America and the world whom continues to grow.
Among his interests in the field of arts are also highlighted, the direction of several art collective and the curatorship of selected exhibitions.
Currently, he is developing a project for the Cité Internationale des Arts in the city of Paris, where he was invited to make an artistic residence under the artistic and cultural exchange between the ministries of Colombia and France, making part of the Year Colombia-France 2017 program.
His work focuses on the appropriation of waste materials with which the artist reconstructs, with great sharpness of design and concept, the representative faces of society and the so-called high culture. Through the insertion of the chosen materials and impeccable workmanship, his works satirize about the content, about symbols and contradictions of the consumer society and thus restitute the aesthetic and denouncing value of the "poor" material.
DIEGO HERNÁNDEZ
Ibagué, Colombia, 1984.
Master of Fine Arts Departmental Institute of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia and winner of the Creation for emerging artists scholarship given by the secretary of culture of Cali and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia in 2015.He has exhibited in important Colombian galleries and museums and is currently working on the series entitled "In Memoriam" for the gallery 12:00 in Bogotá, Colombia.His work emphasizes the manipulation and intervention of fragments of images, such as photos or stamps, to complete them and recreate through these,
new aesthetic constructions or situations that put in evidence power structures and prejudices subjacent to their speeches. The approach of the image as a mediator and publicitary resource is of the interest and encourages criticism of the artist around questions of power and the marked violence in different areas of modern and contemporary society, this artistic proposal became committed to highlight some of the most compelling events in the history of Colombia in the twentieth century through a deep reflection on the social, political and artistic national archive.
WILLIAM NARVÁEZ
Buga, Colombia, 1989.
Master of arts of the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions at a national level.
First place winner in CALCO 2016 of young artists from the city of Cali and winner of a residence Scholarship from the embassy of Colombia and Argentina through the Tres Pinos Foundation, which he is currently attending.
In his work, which includes techniques such as drawing, painting, photography and installation, two main themes interpellate and try to constantly be redefined: nature and art. On the one hand portrays and evokes, through natural materials, the grandeur and power of nature from the recreation of an inhospitable, irrepressible, admirable landscape. On the other hand, conscientiousness and calculation, enrolled in the various art techniques that appropriate and transform the natural, making this natural element or quality fragile and creating geographies, and territorialities. Gathered in his work, these two dimensions establish a univocal and critical discourse regarding value and power relationships in the contemporary landscape.
IVÁN TOVAR
Cali, Colombia 1987
Master of arts of the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. He has lived, studied and performed collective and independent exhibitions in Colombia, Argentina and the Netherlands.
Among his most important achievements include 2015 MARLOW exhibition for international art fair in Cali, Colombia, All the Fires the Fire exhibition made for ARTBO 2015 international art fair in Bogota, Colombia and for Modo he installed the work fountain work in public space and of interactive possibilities for the audience, who won the award for the creation of emerging artist of the Secretary of Cali, Colombia 2015.
He has also participated in the Low Lab Tech 2016 Saatchi Gallery Mode London, Uk.
His work is an exploration where forms proliferate as well as techniques excelling facilities and the adequacy of objects to achieve atmospheres, generating these analogies between the behavior of materials and behaviors, stages and experiences of human life. Through a dialogue between materials, modes, images and concepts, he seeks to enter into an existential, mental space through the portal that opens the space of the intervened matter, gatherer of eternity memory of time.