As part of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá invited artists Raúl Marroquín and Klaus Fruchtnis to create a visual dialogue between their works. Both artists share a mutual interest in the use of technology as part of their creative and artistic process. Their areas of research include digital imaging, satellites, drones, interactive and participatory installations, and the development of academic programs for sharing their research.
As part of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá invited artists Raúl Marroquín and Klaus Fruchtnis to create a visual dialogue between their works. Both artists share a mutual interest in the use of technology as part of their creative and artistic process. Their areas of research include digital imaging, satellites, drones, interactive and participatory installations, and the development of academic programs for sharing their research.
Playground brings us closer to a fundamental element: enjoyment — the enjoyment of everything that allows us to reconnect as human beings and, in a way, to become children again and simply discover everything that today’s technology has to offer.
The show presents an approach that connects technology with its social uses and the many interrelationships that can be established between individuals, with special interest in their desire to communicate and to be permeated by others and by what happens around them, while at the same time inviting us to learn from one another, to get to know each other’s world, and to try to forge our own links and connections in order to join the game — to feel included while also being inclusive.
The games are of every kind: games with images, words, situations, concepts, color, ideas, sensibility — reaffirming play as one of the most human qualities, one that brings us together and integrates us by breaking down social, ethnic, cultural, religious, and political barriers.
Fruchtnis leads us to explore the dynamics of interaction with the communities that take part in the invention of his works — whether with a spectator, another artist, or ephemeral elements such as the inexhaustible wind. His rules of the game are the use of technology, digital devices, and the extension of his creative processes toward the public.
Marroquín, for his part, invites us to experiment with new technologies — industrial video, television, mobile phones — adopting them as creative tools and turning the “low-res” aesthetic into a style of his own.
The show, which includes drawing, photography, and installation, opens on June 30 at 5:00pm and will be open to the public until July 31, 2016.