Category: Artists

  • Marcos Ávila Forero – Venice Art Biennal 2017

    In Colombia 2017 is the “Year of France” so what better than to present a quick update on the work of a French Colombian. Marcos Avila Forero was born in Paris in 1983 and lives and works between there and Bogotá. In 2012 he won the Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2012 and now he is taking part […]

  • Bernardo Ortiz at Art Basel Miami

    As part of the Salon talks at Art Basel Miami the Colombian artist gave a presentation on “Low Resolution Stories” whereby information can be transformed and a new story created by the interpretation of images based on low resolution… almost like a game of visual chinese whispers…!  One example he gave was of the story […]

  • Art Basel Miami 2016

    This year’s Art Basel Miami 2016 is an art fair that features 269 prominent galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, exhibiting works of more than 2,000 artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s reapplication rate of 98% shows the importance of this art fair to the galleries that participate which […]

  • Colombia in Scotland

    Three well known Colombian artists are participating in the Edinburgh Art fair in Scotland. Eivar Moya, Graciela Gómez and Manuel Serrano presented their latest works with the Gaudi Galery from Madrid, Spain at Scotland’s biggest art fair which often receives over 10,000 visitors each year and often sells more than 1000 pieces of art in just […]

  • Street Art in Bogota!

    I love finding new articles on art in Colombia. This one however has another side to the story which is not revealed – and all is not rosy …so read on! The article  provides some good information on international artists such as Pez (Spain/Cataluña) and Crisp (Australia),  as well as Colombian artists like Guache, Mico, DJ […]