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:
As part of Artbo Weekend 2024, SGR Galería will be presenting two individual exhibitions. In the Main exhibition hall, we will have a project by Johan Samboni who, through different media, explores his own identity as a young man from Cali, from a working-class neighborhood and with indigenous and Afro ancestry. Along the same path he offers a perspective on the racial, political and economic crossroads that form the social geographies of urban youth in Latin America. On the other hand, in our project room, Alejandro Sintura will present an installation that explores, starting with a reinterpretation of a photograph by Dorothea Lange, the place of ornament in daily life and in contemporary artistic practices. This project seeks to expand the formal limits of painting through digital and analog media
SGR Galería was founded in 2014, focusing primarily on Latin American contemporary art. Since then, it has worked closely with young and emerging artists, always seeking to push their practices, taking risks to stimulate the emergence of exhibitions and projects that lead to the constant evolution of their work. For the gallery, it has been fundamental to grow hand in hand with the artists it represents, showing a determined commitment to the development of their careers.
The artists with whom SGR Galería has worked over the years are characterized by developing rigorous works with different levels of conceptual strategies. It has managed to represent proposals that cover a wide spectrum between practices that are, on the one hand, mainly visual and, on the other hand, mainly conceptual, thus being able to offer a perspective that shows the diversity and complexity of the artistic discourses that are produced from Latin America today.
Through its program, SGR Galería has managed to create a synergy between the artists, the gallery, its public, and the diverse cultural agents and allies with whom it collaborates. More than a commercial space, the gallery is a cultural space where relevant conversations about contemporary art in the region take place. From this place of dialogues and encounters, it aims to generate experiences and knowledge that can be healing and produce well-being in society.
Johan Samboni is an artist from the east of Cali, whose work is traversed by social realities that are part of his immediate environment, focusing on reflections and questions about the representation of marginality and the identities that inhabit it. Recently he had his first t solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin. He has participated in group exhibitions in spaces such as Museo La Tertulia in Cali, Galería Santa Fe and Espacio Odeon in Bogota; Museo Rayo in Roldanillo and the Museo de Antioquia in Medellin. He has received various awards such as the C digital art program award, National Recognition XVII Regional Artists' Salons of the Ministerio de Cultura and the Artecámara Award in partnership with El Tiempo, ArtBo 2019. His work is part of the collections of Banco de la República, Museo La Tertulia and Museo Rayo.
Johan Samboni is an artist from the east of Cali, whose work is traversed by social realities that are part of his immediate environment, focusing on reflections and questions about the representation of marginality and the identities that inhabit it. Recently he had his first t solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin. He has participated in group exhibitions in spaces such as Museo La Tertulia in Cali, Galería Santa Fe and Espacio Odeon in Bogota; Museo Rayo in Roldanillo and the Museo de Antioquia in Medellin. He has received various awards such as the C digital art program award, National Recognition XVII Regional Artists' Salons of the Ministerio de Cultura and the Artecámara Award in partnership with El Tiempo, ArtBo 2019. His work is part of the collections of Banco de la República, Museo La Tertulia and Museo Rayo.
Johan Samboni is an artist from the east of Cali, whose work is traversed by social realities that are part of his immediate environment, focusing on reflections and questions about the representation of marginality and the identities that inhabit it. Recently he had his first t solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin. He has participated in group exhibitions in spaces such as Museo La Tertulia in Cali, Galería Santa Fe and Espacio Odeon in Bogota; Museo Rayo in Roldanillo and the Museo de Antioquia in Medellin. He has received various awards such as the C digital art program award, National Recognition XVII Regional Artists' Salons of the Ministerio de Cultura and the Artecámara Award in partnership with El Tiempo, ArtBo 2019. His work is part of the collections of Banco de la República, Museo La Tertulia and Museo Rayo.
Alejandro Sintura Castro lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. His work is traversed by painting, his primary medium. Alejandro's images are in an open state of possibility. Although they are figurative images, the subjects in the painting are presented in a state where they are just beginning to be configured, they appear in a state similar to presentiment. His paintings are evocative rather than descriptive, they move between the limits of the hidden and the visible, the empty and the full, many times it is not known if something is there painted or not, that state of presentiment of believing to see something is enough for it to exist. For Alejandro painting has this invocative dimension and is in constant dialogue with itself, references to other painters, living or dead, are always present in his work. Contemplation and accepting the possibilities that reside in the simplest subjects is fundamental in his process. The complexity of her work lies not only in the objects themselves treated in the paintings, but essentially in the images that emerge from them and the way in which light makes them appear to observers.
Alejandro Sintura Castro lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. His work is traversed by painting, his primary medium. Alejandro's images are in an open state of possibility. Although they are figurative images, the subjects in the painting are presented in a state where they are just beginning to be configured, they appear in a state similar to presentiment. His paintings are evocative rather than descriptive, they move between the limits of the hidden and the visible, the empty and the full, many times it is not known if something is there painted or not, that state of presentiment of believing to see something is enough for it to exist. For Alejandro painting has this invocative dimension and is in constant dialogue with itself, references to other painters, living or dead, are always present in his work. Contemplation and accepting the possibilities that reside in the simplest subjects is fundamental in his process. The complexity of her work lies not only in the objects themselves treated in the paintings, but essentially in the images that emerge from them and the way in which light makes them appear to observers.
Alejandro Sintura Castro lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. His work is traversed by painting, his primary medium. Alejandro's images are in an open state of possibility. Although they are figurative images, the subjects in the painting are presented in a state where they are just beginning to be configured, they appear in a state similar to presentiment. His paintings are evocative rather than descriptive, they move between the limits of the hidden and the visible, the empty and the full, many times it is not known if something is there painted or not, that state of presentiment of believing to see something is enough for it to exist. For Alejandro painting has this invocative dimension and is in constant dialogue with itself, references to other painters, living or dead, are always present in his work. Contemplation and accepting the possibilities that reside in the simplest subjects is fundamental in his process. The complexity of her work lies not only in the objects themselves treated in the paintings, but essentially in the images that emerge from them and the way in which light makes them appear to observers.
