Talk: Inauguration of the exhibition «Say the place. Testimonies of the Colombian landscape»

Talk: Inauguration of the exhibition «Say the place. Testimonies of the Colombian landscape»

Clemencia Echeverri and Nicolás Gómez Echeverri / Colombia
Bank of the Republic

Clemencia Echeverri

Clemencia Echeverri lives and works in Bogota. She completed undergraduate studies in Colombia and specialization and masters in Plastic Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. She was a professor of Arts in undergraduate and master's degree at Universidad de Antioquia and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. After working in painting and sculpture, since the mid-90s, Clemencia has developed workS in installation, video, photography, sound and interactivity based on dominant political and social conditions.

In the last years, she has realized projects of video installation with participation in several national and international events, between which they stand out, the work Treno in Waterweavers The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture, curator José Roca. Bard Graduate Center New York. The work Sacrificio at the First Biennial of Art of Cartagena, and at the National Artists' Hall, Medellín. The work Versión Libre nominated in the VI Luis Caballero Contest and in Coordinates a review of the installation in Antioquia. Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, premiere of the works of Video installation Survivals, Heritage Games and Train at the Alonso Garcés Gallery, Bogotá.

Single-channel Heritage Games in Latin American Cosmovideographies, CENART Mexico and the Museum of Modern Art in Barranquilla. The work Frontera in the MDE11, Medellín and Juegos de Herencia in Photography for Photography, Bogotá. The work Voz: resonances de la prisión, in the National Museum of Colombia and in monocanal version and sound for the Biennial of Liverpool (project No Longer Empty), England; Treno at Daros-Latinamerica Museum, Switzerland; Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu Poland; Delfina Foundation, UK and National University Art Museum; Casa Intima at the VI Biennial of Havana, Cuba.

The work Family Appetites at the VI Bogotá Biennial Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá. De Doble Filo at Itinerancia with 10 Colombian artists from France, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile. She has participated in Electronic Arts Festivals such as ISEA in Helsinki-Stockholm and Tallinn, Electronic Arts Festival Banquete, Madrid; Ars Electronica, Austria; Artrónica, Bogota and London, with the work Quiasma in group with three Colombian artists.

Over the last 15 years, Colombia has held numerous exhibitions and participations in museums and galleries such as the National Museum of Colombia, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, the Universidad Nacional Art Museum. In 2009 the book was produced on his recent work titled No Answer. She has won prizes, mentions, national and international scholarships such as the Arts Special Events Council, London, the Daniel Langlois Foundation of Canada and the Biennial Prize of the Arts of Colombia. She has received national and international support, among them Delfina Foundation London, and research-creation grants from the Ministry of Culture, the National University of Colombia and the District Institute of Culture of Bogotá. Selected for the Yaddo Art Residence in New York.

Nicolas Gomez

He works is an artist, curator and art historian. Through the exploration with different media –mainly the painting and the sculpture- he goes to visual codes for the representation of the sensory and perceptive experience of the space. He works with objects and images that reveal the tensions between the artificial and the natural, and the sensory in relation to the systems of categorization and the measurement of science and language.

Both in his artistic work and in his research work, he has deepened references to the rural and urban landscape in modern and contemporary art, as well as the development and validity of abstract art. Graduated from the Art program of the University de los Andes (Bogotá, 2008) and the Master of Science in Art History from Goldsmiths University (London, 2010). He has exhibited his work in Proartes (Cali, 2016), Lokkus Gallery (Medellín, 2016), Maca (Bogotá, 2016), Salón Comunal (Bogota, 2016), Pereira Art Museum (2015), Nueveochenta Gallery, 2014), Doce Zero Zero Gallery (Bogotá, 2013), Valenzuela Klenner Gallery (Bogotá, 2013); Santa Fe Gallery (Bogotá, 2012) and Project Room of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, 2007).

He has been a professor at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), Universidad de la Sabana (Bogotá) and Universidad del Tolima (Ibagué). He regularly publishes essays and historical and critical articles on modern and contemporary Colombian art and has worked on curatorial projects for various institutions such as the National Museum, La Tertulia Museum and Banco de la República. (Text was taken from: http://www.arteinformado.com/guia/f/nicolas-gomez-echeverri-45631 on May 19, 2017).