ADRIÁN GAITÁN

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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.