The Man Who Made a Monster
2022Single piece
Size
55 x 43.31 in
Year
2022
Medium
Paintings
Reference
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Courtesy of La Balsa Arte
1985 , Colombia
Colombian artist, Graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the Colombian National University with an honorary degree. Completed his MA in Visual Arts at the National Autonomus University of Mexico. Currently pursuing his PhD in Arts and Design in the same university.
Has participated in expositions held in Colombia, The United States, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Italy Argentina, France, Holand, Spain and England.
His body of work ponders on the nature of power; it alters the sensationalist meaning of the journalistic image through graphic interventions which act as a vail that hides partially or completely said image.
His questioning of dominance structures such as the political and the economical ones are recurrent in his work.
Currently he lives and works in Mexico.
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Address
Bogotà, Carrera 5 No. 26C - 47 Torre C. Local 6 Torres del Parque
La Balsa Arte (previously known as Sociedad Cultural La Balsa) opened its doors in 2004 as an alternative non-profit organization, which promoted collective and individual exhibitions of nacional artists. After a brief closing, La Balsa Arte reopened its doors in 2014 in a new space in Torres del Parque in the neighborhood of La Macarena in Bogotá. Now, wit...