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Caracol

ARTISTA: Feliza Bursztyn

1964

Escultura-Ensamblaje

40 x 23 x 18,5 cm

Source: Banco de la República

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Luis Caballero (Colombian, 1943–1995)

Untitled, 1989

Charcoal on paper

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Luis Caballero

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Luis Caballero (Colombian, 1943–1995) Untitled, 1987 oil on canvas 144 x 112 cm. (56.7 x 44.1 in.)

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Doris Salcedo / Atrabiliarios

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Only a few seconds after entering the immense South Galleries at the White Cube, a gallery attendant approached me —Please don’t step on the water, she said. Usually I’m quite taken by the spacial dimension in a room so impressive and I hadn’t been there in a long time, the light and size, the people moving inside that great white box. My head was still in the clouds, instinct blinded by brightness, feet in the dark. So I mumbled “There should be a warning at the entrance”. 

In fact there shouldn’t. Sometimes one needs to be reminded not warned, to notice one’s step and learn to see here now and on the go despite perceived overwhelming circumstances. Salcedo’s work Palimpsest is brilliant in its elemental simplicity. Its statement couldn’t be more compelling. The gallery attendants are part of it as much as the visitors, they keep trying to put the water displaced by those like me back on the collectively neglected names on the ground, of those drowned trying to reach Europe and of those who lost them—a more or less hopeless task. Anyway they keep doing it and respect is good. Just not enough. 

I will return to practice more and learn better. 

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Fotos de Jesús Abad Colorado, momentos del conflicto colombiano.

Pictures by Jesús Abad Colorado, snapshots of the Colombian conflict.

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Artist: Rafael Gómez Barros, 

Rafael Gómezbarros’s installations comprise hundreds of 50cm-long ants crawling across the gallery walls. Look closely and you’ll notice that each one is made of two joined casts of human skulls. The title refers to a ghost story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar (wikipedia). Gómezbarros, born in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 1972, employs his army of insects to draw attention to the thousands of displaced people who haunt his country’s history.

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 Proyecto DESPLAZAMIENTO

 " Lo que se pierde queda escrito en el alma. Cuanto más dolorosamente se perdió, cuanto mas querido era lo perdido, tanto más arraiga en la memoria. Porque nadie abandona con gusto lo que ama. Y la memoria, como el amor, es aquello que no puede sernos arrebatado, es la voz que nos recuerda cada día lo que tenemos que recuperar"

                                                                                                   William Ospina

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Pedro Ruiz

Love his art!

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Pedro Ruiz (b. 1957, Bogotá, Colombia)

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Francisco Antonio Cano - Modelo de la Academia Julian (ca. 1898)

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Desnudo. Por Francisco Antonio Cano. 1923

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Horizontes-. 1913. F.A. Francisco Antonio Cano

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Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Porcelana de Caribe (2005) Lithograph

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Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Porcelana de mediodia (2006) oil on canvas

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Innerscapes - Carlos Lersundy