EXHIBITION

Memoria entre líneas

FABIEN CASTANIER GALLERY, Distrito Especial, Bogotá, 02/04/2016 - 03/05/2016

Cra 23 No. 76-56 Bogotá, Colombia

ABOUT

 Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present “Memoria entre líneas” a group show that combines paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations from the Colombian APT artists Aníbal Vallejo and Iván Castiblanco. Although their work emerges from different standpoints, these two artists share and interest in finding their own way of creating their pieces, they resist in making their work “in resemblance as”, their processes reflect a yearning to try and find new techniques outside from the traditional approach. It is also noticeable that they both peruse a quest for perfection, which is achieved by the repetition with in their work, both in the patterns within a single piece, as in the perpetuation of the series or the techniques.

Vallejo’s work focuses on the boundaries of painting and its possibilities. Beyond the formal and conventional techniques he wants to search new forms to be integrated into the process. His training, as a plastic artist and fashion designer, made him interested in elements outside the world of painting, which he tries to bring into the work: threads, fabrics, jewelry, industrial embroidery and especially hand embroidery that has the intimate character which reveals the true essence of things. The thread acquires special force because it rescues the gesture and plasticity of it with the value added of the tridimensional.

Castiblanco’s work has an archaeological quality to it; his constant necessity to investigate historical abandoned locations has pointed him to elaborate a specific investigation on the forgotten memory. Where he constructs a dialogue based on the found objects he collects in this archaeological hunts. Creating a close relationship between the past and the present, where these particular objects have an intrinsic remembrance that lives in the collective memory of the community, as these objects with such magical significance, compels the spectator to travel in to the lost consciousness of a cultural society.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Anibal Vallejo

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