ARTBO 2014

Carolina Caycedo’s Be Dammed is a research project that addresses concepts of Flow and Containment. In particular, it focuses on the relationships between the planning and construction of dams, and social control mechanisms. In this case, Caycedo focuses on the study of the current construction of the Quimbo and Hidroituango hydroelectric plant (Colombia).

Felipe Arturo’s O golo, o logo, go log, lo logo, o gol o logo has arisen from a game with the letters L, O, and G that creates a wall of linguistic permutations build with concrete hollow modules. This work reflects the influence and appropriation of Modern as well as popular Latinamerican Architecture and conveys concrete poetry’s notions, such as the loosing of meaning, through a playful exercise with form and sign.

Sebastian Fierro’s paintings reveal how pictorial strategies -such as cropping or scale alteration-allow a new encounter with the art work and the material. Working with fragments or making new versions of other important paintings belonging to the universal Art History is an exercise that points at the way images are always constructed from other previous ones.

Carlos Motta presents a project composed of drawings and sculptures that recall pre-Hispanic representations (drawings, sculptures and jewellery) of homoerotic actions found throughout the American continent, from the Yucatan Peninsula till the south of the Andes. Through these pieces Motta proposes a lecture that transcends their interpretation as exclusively spiritual and ritualistic symbols.

Santiago Reyes Viallaveces’ work presents a multiple strategy, questioning both the limits between sculpture and painting, and the role of the viewer in his approximation and signification of the piece. The work formally puts in evidence the contradiction between the solidity of podiums, pedestals and squares where the flag shafts are installed (as objects cult, veneration, identification and subordination) and the lightness and movement of the fabric floating in the wind proclaiming stable, recognizable and useful symbols.

Daniel Santiago Salguero’s project, like other previous ones, comes from an exercise that brings together situations and impressions that build up a collage of metaphors that let the artist describe his perspectives of war and violence in Colombia.

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For Proyectos Section, José Roca, Associate Curator of Latin American Art Estrellita B. Brodsky at the Tate Gallery in London and artistic director of FLORA ars+natura, a space for contemporary creation in Bogotá, chose 14 projects by artists and designers who have transcended the scene international and that have the commercial representation of a gallery, who developed proposals specifically for the exhibition called The aesthetic use of object.

In Referentes Section, in the words of its curators, “reflections on artistic languages evident in the works included in Referentes, are at the root of many practices of current art. These works leave open a way out for a new era —our era— full of suspicion and irony, disbelieving in the past and skeptical of the future, and as uncertain and exciting as all times”.