Artist Danilo Rojas Bogota (1970) decided to realize a dream he had when he moved to Barcelona 15 years ago through the creation of this exhibition “Calls of Silence”.

“It is not any dream and did not occur at any time in my life” he says. Rojas had left architecture, a career that had disappointed him, and also Bogota to start a new life. That dream was an epiphany.

Rojas was in a dimly lit room “drawing without thinking” with a black marker. Through an open window he heard the sound of the sea. A woman came and gave him the formula of harmony: “Balance centrifugal numbered forms,” a rather cryptic phrase that Rojas made him conscious of that harmony, that he was looking for patterns that are today repeated in his paintings as “something alive” and that “germinate” there.

Both ends of the exhibition hall of the Centro Colombo Americano in Bogota, Rojas has placed two paintings that have organic patterns. In the center, the artist has installed three ‘lights’ over white canvases which lie on the floor. These, canvases as in the drawings in his dream, are drawn with free lines, which create new forms and ways to connect. He chose to add red female seeds to give them body, canvas to canvas, to those forms.

“The exhibition is very educational. I could not do something more revealing about how to build a Danilo artwork” says the artist, who has made four solo exhibitions at the Arte Consultores Gallery in Bogota. This exhibition at the Colombo Americano Center, he says, is the first with non-commercial purposes.

“My work has three words that characterize it: beauty, peace and harmony,” says Rojas, who returned to Bogota to live eighteen months ago. “Ever since I came back, the sizes of my paintings have grown, I think that is because in Europe there is no space and here there is. This has been very important for the development of my work.”

“Calls of Silence”, which ends this Friday, is part of the 2010 season of exhibitions, which is curated by Carlos Blanco.

CENTRO COLOMBO AMERICANO DE BOGOTÁ,

CALLE 19 NO. 2-49 – 10, BOGOTA

TELEPHONE 3347640 EXT. 235

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