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Launch of the book Antioquia en Historias del Arte en Colombia: miradas desde otra geografía

Published in November 2022, the book Historias del arte en Colombia. Identidades, materialidades, migraciones y geografias brings together twenty-one stories about plates, earrings, drawings, photographs, easel and mural paintings, sculptures, and installations, among other works, until now ignored by national historiography and that broaden the visions of art in Colombia from prehistory to the present.

This book is a commitment to telling other stories about art produced, consumed, used, and inspired in Colombia as a global phenomenon through four cross-cutting thematic axes: identities, materialities, migrations, and geographies. Thus, through these thematic axes and a case study methodology, a new history of art in Colombia is proposed that inserts works, artists, and specialties into a broader context.

In this conversation, two of the authors, Veronica Uribe Hanabergh and Juanita Solano Roa, will present the book with special emphasis on some works and texts that deal with the Antioquia region. The authors will discuss the relevance and challenges of a publication like this.

About the guests:

Veronica Uribe Hanabergh
She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from the Australian National University. She currently dedicates herself to teaching, research, and visual art creation. She holds a Doctorate in Humanities from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2009). She is an associate professor in the undergraduate Art History program at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and between 2017 and 2021, she served as director of the Art History Program at the same university. She has published three books and a wide variety of chapters and articles. Her research focuses on studies of 19th-century landscape, ecological approaches to art history, art and heritage, travel and travelers, and the revision of the pre-Hispanic past in 19th-century Colombia.

Juanita Solano Roa
She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes. She holds a doctorate in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and a master’s degree from the same institution. Her work focuses on research into the history of photography, the relationship between art and food, and the history of modern and contemporary art in Latin America. In 2022, she received the award for best article on Latin American art from the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and in 2015, she received the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award. Solano Roa is also the author-compiler of the book Historias del Arte en Colombia (Ediciones Uniandes, 2022) and co-curator of the digital humanities project La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze (https://bananacraze.uniandes.edu.co/). She is currently working on her first monographic book titled Negative Originals. Race and Photography in Colombia, 1891-1938.