A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
Sextante Gallery at ArtBo Semana
Starting from the idea that ArtBo | Fair moves from Corferias to the headquarters of the Bogotá art galleries, the Sextante Gallery proposes to present in its spaces:
The stand of two Galleries: Galería Sextante (room 1) * and the guest gallery Portas Vilaseca Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (room 3 and 4), exhibitions by Ana Maria Devis, Symbiotic Relations (room 2) and Luis Fernando Pelaéz, Cae la luna (room 5 and 6), presentation of the artist's book by José Alejandro Restrepo, PURGATORIO (artist's books room), room with a proposal of works for new collectors and finally open and functioning graphic arts workshops.
This year and a half of obligatory silence and deaf dialogues made more evident, for us, the connections between the proposals of the gallery's artists and their relationship with nature.
CONSTELLATIONS
Relations of order and meaning that account for our modes and manners, for the inevitable interruptions generated by the walls, the jumps. Unions of the possible, convergences of points through the gaze. Like a universe, each room is a constellation, Sextant the instrument that allows one to position oneself, to know what to interpret.
Sextante Gallery Stand
Recent work artists
Hugo Zapata | OFFERING
Santiago Parra | ENERGY
Angélica Zorrilla | BURNING
Alberto Miani | LOVE & CONSPIRATE from the ISIS Y OSIRIS series
Juan Manuel Echavarría | SILENCES
Fernando Cruz | PERCEPTIONS AND CONNECTIONS
Sextante regularly accompanies and exhibits the work of a group of contemporary Latin American artists - established and emerging artists. The Gallery as an exhibition practice, as an analytical space that allows the public to perceive, think and deepen the proposals and projects of the artists. A space not only for collectors but also accessible to the general public. At its headquarters in Bogotá, two old houses neighboring the disappeared Lake Gaitán, it has two temporary exhibition rooms, a project room, two permanent exhibition rooms and two exhibition spaces for the works of the artists of Sextante, a projection room , Artist's Book room, graphic work room.
Branches, used makeup wipes, wooden sticks, hair, lacquer, wire, makeup and reptile skin. Entangled, re adjusted and attuned. A thousand elements multiplied like a cell during mitosis, breaking free from each other and joining back together- all at once, from left and right. All these materials are witnesses of things seemingly unpleasant; together, they are monstrous and fragile, but also beautiful. They are life, as if lived through a kaleidoscope. Elsewhere, letters build calligrams- an ornamental alphabet or a secret language can be intuitively perceived, working in tandem with every one of the names chosen for each creature to hold: Lananteterequismixgarlluón; Rasuntisanollamas, Raustrobunossi. This exhibition brings together a long process in two ways: an intuitive and material dimension and a typographic, language-centered exploration. Forty-two creatures or uncanny organisms made over two years of work constitute the installation. Alongside them, a series of graphic works explore the process of creating a name for each of the creatures and naming as an act of bringing these organisms into existence. This exploration further reveals the poetic process through which the creatures were named and the new language that sprung in consequence. Relaciones Simbióticas is an ecosystem of relations made up of affection and an infinity of micro universes being expanded like a symphony of residual material. Relaciones Simbióticas’ power lies in the possibility to perceive the non perceivable as it interweaves residues of the feminine universe with the animal and the natural. It thus requires a certain gaze from spectators, an interest in the language of objects and nature, in the cries of the environment that are emitted in a frequency that is rarely heard. It is about understanding our surroundings not simply as environment, but rather as the tacit ties of affection, as the butterfly effects and the energy between you and I, as what we are creating unconsciously but we refuse to see.
Branches, used makeup wipes, wooden sticks, hair, lacquer, wire, makeup and reptile skin. Entangled, re adjusted and attuned. A thousand elements multiplied like a cell during mitosis, breaking free from each other and joining back together- all at once, from left and right. All these materials are witnesses of things seemingly unpleasant; together, they are monstrous and fragile, but also beautiful. They are life, as if lived through a kaleidoscope. Elsewhere, letters build calligrams- an ornamental alphabet or a secret language can be intuitively perceived, working in tandem with every one of the names chosen for each creature to hold: Lananteterequismixgarlluón; Rasuntisanollamas, Raustrobunossi. This exhibition brings together a long process in two ways: an intuitive and material dimension and a typographic, language-centered exploration. Forty-two creatures or uncanny organisms made over two years of work constitute the installation. Alongside them, a series of graphic works explore the process of creating a name for each of the creatures and naming as an act of bringing these organisms into existence. This exploration further reveals the poetic process through which the creatures were named and the new language that sprung in consequence. Relaciones Simbióticas is an ecosystem of relations made up of affection and an infinity of micro universes being expanded like a symphony of residual material. Relaciones Simbióticas’ power lies in the possibility to perceive the non perceivable as it interweaves residues of the feminine universe with the animal and the natural. It thus requires a certain gaze from spectators, an interest in the language of objects and nature, in the cries of the environment that are emitted in a frequency that is rarely heard. It is about understanding our surroundings not simply as environment, but rather as the tacit ties of affection, as the butterfly effects and the energy between you and I, as what we are creating unconsciously but we refuse to see.
Branches, used makeup wipes, wooden sticks, hair, lacquer, wire, makeup and reptile skin. Entangled, re adjusted and attuned. A thousand elements multiplied like a cell during mitosis, breaking free from each other and joining back together- all at once, from left and right. All these materials are witnesses of things seemingly unpleasant; together, they are monstrous and fragile, but also beautiful. They are life, as if lived through a kaleidoscope. Elsewhere, letters build calligrams- an ornamental alphabet or a secret language can be intuitively perceived, working in tandem with every one of the names chosen for each creature to hold: Lananteterequismixgarlluón; Rasuntisanollamas, Raustrobunossi. This exhibition brings together a long process in two ways: an intuitive and material dimension and a typographic, language-centered exploration. Forty-two creatures or uncanny organisms made over two years of work constitute the installation. Alongside them, a series of graphic works explore the process of creating a name for each of the creatures and naming as an act of bringing these organisms into existence. This exploration further reveals the poetic process through which the creatures were named and the new language that sprung in consequence. Relaciones Simbióticas is an ecosystem of relations made up of affection and an infinity of micro universes being expanded like a symphony of residual material. Relaciones Simbióticas’ power lies in the possibility to perceive the non perceivable as it interweaves residues of the feminine universe with the animal and the natural. It thus requires a certain gaze from spectators, an interest in the language of objects and nature, in the cries of the environment that are emitted in a frequency that is rarely heard. It is about understanding our surroundings not simply as environment, but rather as the tacit ties of affection, as the butterfly effects and the energy between you and I, as what we are creating unconsciously but we refuse to see.