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Twenty Seven MUESTRAS DE LABORATORIO
14November
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Twenty Seven MUESTRAS DE LABORATORIO

Twenty-seven artworks created by artists that have attended the Research-Creation Laboratories on Visual Arts, organized by the Department of Arts at the Colombian Ministry of Culture, are gathered at the Muestras de laboratorio exhibition, opened through November 25 at the Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary, Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, in Santa Marta.

 

The works, created between 2004 and 2009, in La Guajira, Magdalena and Santander, come to viewers with the curatorship of La Perseverancia collective, made up of artist Diana Camacho and researcher and academician Mariangela Mendez. Different artistic expressions are represented in the exhibition: painting, clay sculpture, photography and video, among others; and there is evidence of multiple conceptual approaches to the territory and singularities of each context.

 

According to curators, the exhibition “is not a diagnosis on workshops, but a collection of samples of how turning daily life into experience, how possible the affirmation of autonomy through the daily going of artists that can join the circuits of contemporary art really is.” And as commented by Jaime Ceron, Consultant of Visual Arts at the Department of Arts, Ministry of Culture, this exhibition is an initiative that looks forward to connecting processes of formation, creation and circulation.

 

Therefore, Joaquin Ariza, Genry James Barba, Susana Basto, Juan Bayer, Nellyda Amparo Cardenas, Gabriel Castillo, Joise Charris Ramirez, Anibal Epinayu, Luz Marina Garcia, Miguel Angel Gelvez, Enrique Gomez, Omar Eduardo Gomez, Maria Belen Hernandez, Hilaturas Collective (Nelva de Yunda - Soraya Yunda), Hair Leal, Oscar Leone, Sandra Monroy, Maria Alexandra Morelli, Luz Amparo Moreno, Jose Palmar, Yadira Polo, Jhon Quintero, Eusebio Siosi, Maria Teresa Solano, Transeunte Collective (Gustavo Polo and Jordan Torres), German Ubaque Leon and Lucia Vs Rita Collective put their artworks together in this collective exhibition.

 

The Program of Research-Creation Laboratories, by the Ministry of Culture, looks forward to promoting artistic education based on the experience and creative thinking in different regions of Colombia, where platforms of artistic education are weak. This initiative suggests the education as a right, taking the creation as a sort of knowledge and knowledge as creation source. In the practice, these laboratories represent a space for dialogue, which involves artists in favor of the strengthening of their creative processes. Since 2004 to date, the Program has been felt in 26 departments and has counted on the participation of over 3.300 people including artists, training artists and the community.

 

For further information contact Alicia Jimenez Mantilla, Spreading and Press Group of Colombia’s Ministry of Culture ajimenez@mincultura.gov.co.

 

Source: Press release