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Artist Statement:
I started collecting artwork,
mostly from Latin American
artists, some twenty years
ago. By the end of 2001 I
started to wonder if I should
try my hand at doing my own
art and in January, 2003, I
embarked in the adventure. The
works displayed here are the
result.
On my birthday I received a
box of Ferrero Rocher
chocolates and I was taken by
the wrinkles in the gold
wrappings and how they changed
depending on how they were
positioned towards the light.
I immediately saw my first
work in my mind: "Ou sont les
Bombons". I became fascinated
by the idea of intervening
humble utilitarian materials
previously manipulated by
anonymous workers or
mechanically processed, in
order to give them some
permanence and turn them into
a meaningful plastic
experience. I then took wood
panels - an agglomerate of
pine shavings - from the boxes
in which the Japanese
suppliers of the factory I
work for in Colombia pack our
raw materials, and by
colouring the different
shavings that form the pattern
in the wood "Selva Gris" and
"Trópico de Un Capricornio"
became my next works.
"Una Pena de Amor" is a more
improvised work in which the
main element ...
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