A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
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A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
For this version of ARTBO we are going to open our space in all its dimensions, we will have the possibility to share and present all the activities that come together in the Community Hall, that is to say: the exhibition, production, training and collection of contemporary art. For the exhibition we are going to turn our space to discover new relationships between the artists we represent. In one of the rooms we will install works made in ceramics by the artists Cecilia Ordoñez, Bernardo Montoya, Nicolás Bonilla and Felipe González, in the other room there will be a space for painting and sculpture from the practice of the artists: Mario Opazo, Edelmira Boller, Mateo Cohen and Marcela Rodríguez. On the second floor we will make a tribute to our friend the teacher Antonio Caro, works from private collections will be mounted that will not be for sale. The residency workshops will be open for the public to visit, as well as the Salazar collection shelter. With this proposal we seek to spread the fact that an art gallery is vital in the professionalization of the plastic arts sector and a meeting point and exchange of knowledge at the service of the general public, and therefore, a cultural epicenter that must be valued and cared for by society.
Salon Comunal was conceived in 2013 in Bogota by Colombian artist. He imagined a gallery that could exist in a family house of a traditional neighborhood , adapting its spaces for contemporary art projects . The idea started pointing out the lack of galleries dedicated to contemporary art in Colombia as well as the lack of institutional support for the up-and-coming generation of young Colombian artists. It has been evident that a support structure was needed that would allow emerging artists to establish their careers. There have been more than 90 exhibitions, among which the participation of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Antonio Caro, Carol Young, Juan Mejía, Lucas Ospina, Gabriel Silva, Beatriz Eugenia Díaz, Cecilia Ordóñez. The gallery represents , Edelmira Boller, Mario Opazo,Marcela Rodríguez, Nicolás Bonilla, Mateo Cohen and Bernardo Montoya.
Edelmira was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1938. During the 1970s, shee studied art at the David Manzur School in Bogotá. Her first solo exhibition was in 1979 at the Belarca Gallery. Until then, his approach to the production of works of art was two-dimensional. Since then, her plastic research has not stopped. Her work was incorporated in 2000 - to the collections of the Museums of Modern Art, Sindelfingen, Germany. Naben, Kirchheim Teck, Germany. Honorable mention at the XXXII Annual Colombian Artists Salon, 1989. Honorable mention at the III Tunja Regional Visual Arts Salon, 1980. Lives and works in Bogotá.
He is a plastic artist born in Bogotá Colombia in 1981. In 2004 he received a master's degree in plastic arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá Colombia and in 2012 the Meisterschüler master's degree from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, Cohen has exhibited his works regularly in Latin America and Europe, both in group and individual exhibitions. He has been a teacher at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. His work is a reflection on the matter and the support of painting. His abstract-looking works emphasize the way they have been built, and their color appears as a derivative of this construction. The unusual use of the usual painting materials (oil, canvas, stretcher) presents us with a traditional object with a strange appearance. Pictures that don't look like pictures; paintings that have not been painted. With this, the artist invites the category of painting to be mentioned and forces the viewer to reflect on the material reality of the experience of art. He lives and works in Berlin.
His work has oscillated between music and the plastic arts, passing through the universe of vibrations, words and numbers. In 1992, with the creation of a composition system, based on mathematics and verbal language, he began a trajectory that has been characterized by the development of projects that are based on awakening or activating spaces, bodies or objects. acoustic. In different parts of the world he has presented works that pose links, interrelation of languages, connection with nature.
His work has oscillated between music and the plastic arts, passing through the universe of vibrations, words and numbers. In 1992, with the creation of a composition system, based on mathematics and verbal language, he began a trajectory that has been characterized by the development of projects that are based on awakening or activating spaces, bodies or objects. acoustic. In different parts of the world he has presented works that pose links, interrelation of languages, connection with nature.
He was born in Sobral, Brazil in 1980. He is an artist and a teacher. He studied art at the University of the Andes, did a master's degree in visual poetics at the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in visual arts at Sint Lukas Brussels. His plastic work explores the staging of various materials, especially pictorial, textual and archival materials, experimenting around their narrative possibilities. He currently lives in Bogotá.
He was born in Sobral, Brazil in 1980. He is an artist and a teacher. He studied art at the University of the Andes, did a master's degree in visual poetics at the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in visual arts at Sint Lukas Brussels. His plastic work explores the staging of various materials, especially pictorial, textual and archival materials, experimenting around their narrative possibilities. He currently lives in Bogotá.
He was born in Sobral, Brazil in 1980. He is an artist and a teacher. He studied art at the University of the Andes, did a master's degree in visual poetics at the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in visual arts at Sint Lukas Brussels. His plastic work explores the staging of various materials, especially pictorial, textual and archival materials, experimenting around their narrative possibilities. He currently lives in Bogotá.
Cecilia Ordoñez lives and works in Tenjo Cundinamarca Colombia. She was a professor at the School of Arts of the National University of Colombia for 28 years. She promoted a career in ceramics and held administrative positions as Director of Careers and the Department of Arts. Clay and fire have been a part of his life for more than 40 years. (I have taken risks and seized opportunities; luck has been generous to me, perhaps because I have been alert, going back to the past to take the present). His work is exhibited in various Museums of Art in Colombia and abroad. Member of the International Academy of Ceramics
Cecilia Ordoñez lives and works in Tenjo Cundinamarca Colombia. She was a professor at the School of Arts of the National University of Colombia for 28 years. She promoted a career in ceramics and held administrative positions as Director of Careers and the Department of Arts. Clay and fire have been a part of his life for more than 40 years. (I have taken risks and seized opportunities; luck has been generous to me, perhaps because I have been alert, going back to the past to take the present). His work is exhibited in various Museums of Art in Colombia and abroad. Member of the International Academy of Ceramics
Cecilia Ordoñez lives and works in Tenjo Cundinamarca Colombia. She was a professor at the School of Arts of the National University of Colombia for 28 years. She promoted a career in ceramics and held administrative positions as Director of Careers and the Department of Arts. Clay and fire have been a part of his life for more than 40 years. (I have taken risks and seized opportunities; luck has been generous to me, perhaps because I have been alert, going back to the past to take the present). His work is exhibited in various Museums of Art in Colombia and abroad. Member of the International Academy of Ceramics
The word constellation directs the imagination in a vertical look at the sky and the night. While one star is a celestial body, it can also be any figure or object with rays that share a center, seeking in some way to imitate it or, at least, to evoke it. And if the artist It is possible for him to evoke stars, he will also be able to constellations, but also universes. Come on, how the potter, in parts. Constellation is a certain alignment that appears, it suggests, a sense; this may mean that we have made the stars speak, we have arranged and interpreted them and thus achieved, until one point, question them. The character of this requirement has been transcendental in nature, therefore, whatever the words and languages used each time, we have asked them, almost always, reveal nothing less than the mystery of existence. We see in the pieces that are presented to us a metaphor for this conversation. And if the conversation is of a mystery character, that must be his language. We could also call this type of language symbolic; the constellations of Philip they are, we shall say, symbols.
The word constellation directs the imagination in a vertical look at the sky and the night. While one star is a celestial body, it can also be any figure or object with rays that share a center, seeking in some way to imitate it or, at least, to evoke it. And if the artist It is possible for him to evoke stars, he will also be able to constellations, but also universes. Come on, how the potter, in parts. Constellation is a certain alignment that appears, it suggests, a sense; this may mean that we have made the stars speak, we have arranged and interpreted them and thus achieved, until one point, question them. The character of this requirement has been transcendental in nature, therefore, whatever the words and languages used each time, we have asked them, almost always, reveal nothing less than the mystery of existence. We see in the pieces that are presented to us a metaphor for this conversation. And if the conversation is of a mystery character, that must be his language. We could also call this type of language symbolic; the constellations of Philip they are, we shall say, symbols.
The word constellation directs the imagination in a vertical look at the sky and the night. While one star is a celestial body, it can also be any figure or object with rays that share a center, seeking in some way to imitate it or, at least, to evoke it. And if the artist It is possible for him to evoke stars, he will also be able to constellations, but also universes. Come on, how the potter, in parts. Constellation is a certain alignment that appears, it suggests, a sense; this may mean that we have made the stars speak, we have arranged and interpreted them and thus achieved, until one point, question them. The character of this requirement has been transcendental in nature, therefore, whatever the words and languages used each time, we have asked them, almost always, reveal nothing less than the mystery of existence. We see in the pieces that are presented to us a metaphor for this conversation. And if the conversation is of a mystery character, that must be his language. We could also call this type of language symbolic; the constellations of Philip they are, we shall say, symbols.
He is a plastic artist born in Bogotá Colombia in 1981. In 2004 he received a master's degree in plastic arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá Colombia and in 2012 the Meisterschüler master's degree from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, Cohen has exhibited his works regularly in Latin America and Europe, both in group and individual exhibitions. He has been a teacher at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. His work is a reflection on the matter and the support of painting. His abstract-looking works emphasize the way they have been built, and their color appears as a derivative of this construction. The unusual use of the usual painting materials (oil, canvas, stretcher) presents us with a traditional object with a strange appearance. Pictures that don't look like pictures; paintings that have not been painted. With this, the artist invites the category of painting to be mentioned and forces the viewer to reflect on the material reality of the experience of art. He lives and works in Berlin.
He is a plastic artist born in Bogotá Colombia in 1981. In 2004 he received a master's degree in plastic arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá Colombia and in 2012 the Meisterschüler master's degree from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, Cohen has exhibited his works regularly in Latin America and Europe, both in group and individual exhibitions. He has been a teacher at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. His work is a reflection on the matter and the support of painting. His abstract-looking works emphasize the way they have been built, and their color appears as a derivative of this construction. The unusual use of the usual painting materials (oil, canvas, stretcher) presents us with a traditional object with a strange appearance. Pictures that don't look like pictures; paintings that have not been painted. With this, the artist invites the category of painting to be mentioned and forces the viewer to reflect on the material reality of the experience of art. He lives and works in Berlin.
Edelmira was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1938. During the 1970s, shee studied art at the David Manzur School in Bogotá. Her first solo exhibition was in 1979 at the Belarca Gallery. Until then, his approach to the production of works of art was two-dimensional. Since then, her plastic research has not stopped. Her work was incorporated in 2000 - to the collections of the Museums of Modern Art, Sindelfingen, Germany. Naben, Kirchheim Teck, Germany. Honorable mention at the XXXII Annual Colombian Artists Salon, 1989. Honorable mention at the III Tunja Regional Visual Arts Salon, 1980. Lives and works in Bogotá.
He is a Historian with a specialization in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He has been linked to public cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Colombia and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, doing curatorial research and organizing exhibitions. Now he dedicates his time to university teaching, writing about modern art, managing exhibitions and mainly ceramics, spending most of his life in Partícula, Taller de Cerámica, his studio. There he makes stones out of clay and gives workshops. He lives and works in Bogotá.
He is a Historian with a specialization in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He has been linked to public cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Colombia and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, doing curatorial research and organizing exhibitions. Now he dedicates his time to university teaching, writing about modern art, managing exhibitions and mainly ceramics, spending most of his life in Partícula, Taller de Cerámica, his studio. There he makes stones out of clay and gives workshops. He lives and works in Bogotá.
He is a Historian with a specialization in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He has been linked to public cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Colombia and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, doing curatorial research and organizing exhibitions. Now he dedicates his time to university teaching, writing about modern art, managing exhibitions and mainly ceramics, spending most of his life in Partícula, Taller de Cerámica, his studio. There he makes stones out of clay and gives workshops. He lives and works in Bogotá.
Montoya has a particular interest in matter and its transmutations. In his practice he uses different techniques and means. He works from pictorial fluids, clay and metals. His artistic objects establish relationships between objects of nature and objects created by man. Research, curatorship, management and organization of exhibitions are linked in his work. In 2013 he founded and since then directs Salón Comunal, a space for contemporary art in Bogotá, the city where he lives and works.
Montoya has a particular interest in matter and its transmutations. In his practice he uses different techniques and means. He works from pictorial fluids, clay and metals. His artistic objects establish relationships between objects of nature and objects created by man. Research, curatorship, management and organization of exhibitions are linked in his work. In 2013 he founded and since then directs Salón Comunal, a space for contemporary art in Bogotá, the city where he lives and works.
Montoya has a particular interest in matter and its transmutations. In his practice he uses different techniques and means. He works from pictorial fluids, clay and metals. His artistic objects establish relationships between objects of nature and objects created by man. Research, curatorship, management and organization of exhibitions are linked in his work. In 2013 he founded and since then directs Salón Comunal, a space for contemporary art in Bogotá, the city where he lives and works.
Marcela Rodríguez has focused on understanding the body as a sensory and political medium. Determining element in the relationship / bond of each human being with the elements that constitute his life experience. It is the system through which each of us uses the possibility of sensory approximation to connect or isolate, build or destroy, for ourselves and impacting the whole. Drawing the basis of your searches.
Marcela Rodríguez has focused on understanding the body as a sensory and political medium. Determining element in the relationship / bond of each human being with the elements that constitute his life experience. It is the system through which each of us uses the possibility of sensory approximation to connect or isolate, build or destroy, for ourselves and impacting the whole. Drawing the basis of your searches.
Marcela Rodríguez has focused on understanding the body as a sensory and political medium. Determining element in the relationship / bond of each human being with the elements that constitute his life experience. It is the system through which each of us uses the possibility of sensory approximation to connect or isolate, build or destroy, for ourselves and impacting the whole. Drawing the basis of your searches.
Mario Opazo has a special interest in the state of the human in the contemporary world, issues such as memory and its role in the production of culture, in addition to a broad understanding of writing as a physical mark or signal, have led him to relate to diverse languages from the most traditional to electronic and digital media. His work has also been oriented towards Poetic and theoretical essay writing. His work has set a critical and experimental pattern in Our context. Mario Opazo has been the winner of important awards such as the Luis Caballero Prize, the Latin American Art Prize of the MOLA in Los Angeles, the Ninunebto award in La Paz to be placed at the UN in New York. He has also participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale and the X Biebal in Havana, among others.
Mario Opazo has a special interest in the state of the human in the contemporary world, issues such as memory and its role in the production of culture, in addition to a broad understanding of writing as a physical mark or signal, have led him to relate to diverse languages from the most traditional to electronic and digital media. His work has also been oriented towards Poetic and theoretical essay writing. His work has set a critical and experimental pattern in Our context. Mario Opazo has been the winner of important awards such as the Luis Caballero Prize, the Latin American Art Prize of the MOLA in Los Angeles, the Ninunebto award in La Paz to be placed at the UN in New York. He has also participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale and the X Biebal in Havana, among others.
Mario Opazo has a special interest in the state of the human in the contemporary world, issues such as memory and its role in the production of culture, in addition to a broad understanding of writing as a physical mark or signal, have led him to relate to diverse languages from the most traditional to electronic and digital media. His work has also been oriented towards Poetic and theoretical essay writing. His work has set a critical and experimental pattern in Our context. Mario Opazo has been the winner of important awards such as the Luis Caballero Prize, the Latin American Art Prize of the MOLA in Los Angeles, the Ninunebto award in La Paz to be placed at the UN in New York. He has also participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale and the X Biebal in Havana, among others.
Edelmira was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1938. During the 1970s, shee studied art at the David Manzur School in Bogotá. Her first solo exhibition was in 1979 at the Belarca Gallery. Until then, his approach to the production of works of art was two-dimensional. Since then, her plastic research has not stopped. Her work was incorporated in 2000 - to the collections of the Museums of Modern Art, Sindelfingen, Germany. Naben, Kirchheim Teck, Germany. Honorable mention at the XXXII Annual Colombian Artists Salon, 1989. Honorable mention at the III Tunja Regional Visual Arts Salon, 1980. Lives and works in Bogotá.
His work has oscillated between music and the plastic arts, passing through the universe of vibrations, words and numbers. In 1992, with the creation of a composition system, based on mathematics and verbal language, he began a trajectory that has been characterized by the development of projects that are based on awakening or activating spaces, bodies or objects. acoustic. In different parts of the world he has presented works that pose links, interrelation of languages, connection with nature.