April 21 - 23, 2023
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
April 21 - 23, 2023
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
Jonier Marín is a fundamental reference of Colombian conceptualism art. In his early work, Jonier evidenced the exploitation processes of natural resources in the jungles of Colombia and Brazil, as well as their impact on Amerindian communities. In artistic terms, his environmental concern - unprecedented in the artwork of that time - was performed through the use of technology and new media (video, photography, installation, performance), as well as in his intention to expand the limits of painting, communication and graphic image.
His works have been made in unconventional materials: artist books made with transparent acetates; living plants that, like a cyborg, were integrated with television screens; paints made from tree sap; and, in the case of the current exhibition, paintings made with garbage, aluminum foil, cuttings of advertising images, plastic supermarket bags and burned papers.
This project conformed of 19 works, made between 1972 and 1974, is a tribute to José Eustasio Rivera and his literary work 'Tierra de promisión', who poetically and objectively describes an early ecological concern for nature and man in the American jungle.
Espacio El Dorado is a contemporary art gallery established in 2015 in the neighborhood of La Macarena in Bogotá, Colombia. The gallery is made up of four spaces that are in continuous dialogue with one another. The garden, as the space that links together the four exhibitions, hosts Black Box, the entrance to the Annex, En blanco and the store, as well as the building El Dorado. The name of the gallery comes from the legend of El Dorado and borrows the imaginary of this mythical place of abundant riches. A utopia, that results fictitious due to its own impossibility. Espacio El Dorado seeks to materialize artistic imaginaries whose ambition resembles, in a certain way, the conception of the mythical golden city. The colonial origins of the legend allude to the constant dialogue between Espacio El Dorado and its Colombian context. In that sense, the purpose of the gallery is the realization of these ambitious ideas, apparently impossible, which can profoundly alter the identity of the artist, the space, and the surrounding local art scene. The gallery considers artists as social subjects and critics of their surroundings. There are three generations of artists represented in the gallery: the first of them work since the 90’s, the second generation within the 60’s and 70’s, and the last one since the 2000’s. The exhibitions are works developed in situ and are the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue. Accompanied by varied contents and texts, they incite questions open to error and experimentation.
Jonier Marin Colombia 1946 Lives in Paris Jonier Marin , left Colombia for the first time in 1968, to visit the USA(New York and serveral american cities ) during two months. Back to his architecture estudies in Bogota University, soon he left for Amazonia, crossing Brasil via Brasilia and arriving overland to Rio de Janeiro.For the first time he was in a group show,the summer salon, in Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro , and presents his first solo exhibit in Copacabana.He takes a ship “C” to Lisbon ,and stays in Switzerland for several years .He visits Documenta 5 in Kassel , 1972, and contacts artists in view :Beuys, Brothears, Ben ,Hains, Nanm Yun Paik ,Christo, and others. When Cayc from Buenos Aires presents a performances festival in Venice Italiy ,Palazzo Grassi, 1979,JM produces his one minute performance “Big and Small Questions”..In next while he had a solo show in ICC ,Antwerpen, Belgium with a catalog ,and foreword by Pierre Restany ,.Before all this , he has participated by Jorge Glusberg invitation, Cayc mentor, ,to the exhibitions of Cayc in London,Buenos Aires, Ferrara and Paris . In those bygone years, the evening newspaper ”La Notte” , from Milan ,writes about a colombian young artist giving money to bystanders in plaza Duomo .It results to be Jonier Marin and his “money art service”,activ work.JM at lenght settled in Paris, and left every now and then to participate in Sao Paulo Bienal 1977,or Medellin performances in Museum of Modern Art ..Back to Sao Paulo , he presents “Videopost “first video show ever, in Brazil ,and creates for the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, “ Amazonia “ a solo show and installation with the purpose ,for the first time perhaps, 1976, to make a warning signal concerning endangered rainforests..Back in Paris JM is included in “Electra” electronic and video art exhibit at Musée d ‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris .He had a restrospective in Cali,Museo La Tertulia, in 1981. In 1982 JM presents in New York his “Amazonia” Performance ,invited by the America’s Society , in Park Avenue. In 1983 ,a group of artists called “Dé-réalisateurs” by Catherine Millet, is presented by Severo Sarduy in Art Press ,the Paris art magazine., and , par la suite , JM presents a performance , “Drawing in the dark” , in centre G.Pompidou… (Note , Paris 2012).
