Exposición Utopía. Entre ficción y elucubración

Utopía. Between Fiction and Speculation

In recent decades of art in Colombia, the influence of architecture has been notable. Following the 1st Latin American Colloquium on Non-Object Art and Urban Art held at MAMM, the tensions surrounding the problem of space have become increasingly evident.

Curated by: Óscar Roldán-Alzate and Efrén Giraldo

Calendar From 29 de April 2015 al 28 de July del 2015

The reflection on this aspect in art has almost always required thinking of architecture as a discipline that mediates between language and the materialization of possible scenarios in which human life unfolds. In this sense, the work of the Utopía group, the artistic collective formed by Fabio Antonio Ramírez, Jorge Mario Gómez, and Ana Patricia Gómez, which introduced the language of architectural projection into Colombian art, has accounted for various historical, sociological, and formal tensions between these two disciplines.

This exhibition sought to help recognize the work that the group of architects carried out over the last three decades and invited viewers to position themselves in the interstice opened by their work, which alludes to possible worlds through plastic speculations inherent to the language of art*.

*Excerpt from the introductory text of the publication Le Corbusier on the Medellín River. Architecture, Fiction and Cartography in the Works of the Utopía Group (1979-2009). Efrén Giraldo and Óscar Roldán-Alzate.

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Exposición en sala del grupo Utopía
Exposición Entre ficción y elucubración en sala del MAMM
Obras de la exposición Entre ficción y elucubración
Obra en puerta del grupo Utopía

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