Entretiempos
Curator / Curaduría: María Iovino
Solo Show
2016
Aurora Espacio de Arte
Bogotá, Colombia
2016
Aurora Espacio de Arte
Bogotá, Colombia
Entretiempos
By: Credencial Editorial
With the exhibition entitled "Entretiempos" by the artist Aníbal Vallejo, Aurora, a space dedicated to the reflection and dissemination of art creations and different expressions of design, opens its doors to the public under the direction of Andrea Walker.
The selection of the works that the Antioquian painter brings to Bogotá has been in charge of the curator María Iovino, who has found special value in the exchange of glances that exist in the artist's work in relation to the objectives that Aurora proposes.
Aníbal Vallejo studied visual arts and fashion design at the University of Antioquia and at the Colegiatura de Medellín respectively, formations that have provided him with different ways of understanding and expressing the image, which he finds and crosses synthetically and with a clear talent in handling color and space. To this it is necessary to add a natural relationship with literature and with the generation of universes that the fact of belonging to a family of writers confers on Vallejo. And this fact leads to communicate the abstract work that the artist has done in recent years with the more figurative work that he developed in other moments of his career.
The architectures that arise from the compositions of Aníbal Vallejo have intimate connections with common forms of daily life, among which are hundreds of utilitarian constructions and ornamental harmonies that unfold for him above all from the textile world, observed in routine contexts and also, in the immense display that respect makes the history of art.
The attention to this type of detail has given the artist a special education and strength, quite remarkable today, in which there are few image creators who appreciate and know the demanding world of color and the grace of movement, so valued by the decorative arts. It was precisely the enchantment with that universe that encouraged an artist like Matisse to lose himself in the infinite possibilities of color and the attractive forms of the immediate world, while he distanced himself from the rigors and intellectual restrictions of the academy of fine arts.
After decades in which the minimalist and conceptualist legacies have been processed, with their distances and inconsideration towards the game of form and colour, it is gratifying to see an artist grow who fuses with seriousness and skill in the field of abstraction, fertile lands, such as decorative ones, which have been unfairly devalued. Likewise, as in the case of Matisse, it is valuable to appreciate the masculine version of a language, such as textiles or sewing, which has been stigmatized as a frivolous distraction from the feminine.
The work of Aníbal Vallejo not only includes designs in its architectural framework, but also turns embroidery and weaving into drawing and geometry, while resignifying in that space a vast capital of art history from very different cultures and centuries.
