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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Climatic Etchings.
-14ºC +38ºC,” Efe Gómez
Library. Universidad Nacional
de Colombia sede Medellín.
1994 “Paintings - Graphic
Work,” Museo Universidad de
Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
1992 “Paintings,” Medellín
Chamber of Commerce. Medellín,
Colombia.
1985 “Paintings,” Bogotá
Chamber of Commerce. Bogotá
D.C., ...
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Collections:
MAMM,Museo de Arte Moderno,
Medellín, Colombia.
Banco de la Republica de
Colombia collection
Mr. and Mrs.Gabriel Angel
collection
Mr. Juan Gonzalo Moreno
collection
Velasquez Trujillo collection
The Instituto de Artes
Collection, Medellín
Miss Monica Velez collection,
NYC
Martin Steiger collection,
Chiusi, Italy
Academia di Belle Arti ...
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Artist Statement for Federico Londono
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Titular Professor at the National University of Colombia.
Master in Fine Arts. Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy.
Master in Aesthetics. National University of Colombia. Medellín.
Colombia is a tropical country which means that we don’t have the traditional seasons; we have rainy periods of time or dry months. Temperature is constant all year long and depends of on the altitude of the place you are at. We have light from 6 am to 6 pm all year. It never changes; vegetation is exuberant so as thee land. Our environment is so different from the one in Europe that I rapidly decided to create my own a esthetic obviously related to my surroundings accepting it, feeling proud of it, and try to make the others to love it.
Violence and war have been such an important part of this land that we finally got used to it and as I see it we have to become part of the scene, part of the landscape in order to survive.
In my recent work I don’t include human figures, they have been disappearing gradually the same way people do due to the never ending violence. Using colors and images, I try to represent this violence, this chaos, this conflict we have to deal with all the time. Many of the images that appear in my work are just that... images. The real image the jungle we had is being destroyed and changed for coca fields and we can not visit it again because it has been planted with land mines by guerrillas or paramilitary groups.
The part of the jungle that remains and that looks so beautiful from outside tries to protect itself with it’s own ways and to me is something like the symbol of surviving by means of adaptation and flexibility. William Ospina, a local writer says in one of his essays that the most courageous and brave of Colombians are those who go out of their houses every day unarmed to face life in jungle-like surrounding where the stronger ones eat the weaker.
My art work is generally classified by curators and critics as ecological, which in truth partially. I think it pretends to create a sense of appropriation of certain values, to create symbols of our own, so as to create parameters of comparison.
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