Biology has taken on the study of living beings, their origin and evolution, of how a body is built and how it functions, its nutritional, reproductive, pathogenic, morphological functions, among others. “A body is not empty. It is full of other bodies, pieces, organs, parts, tissues, kneecaps, rings, tubes, levers and bellows. It is also full of itself: it is everything it is;” (Luc Nancy 2007) a body is impenetrable, yet at the same time it is dislocated and torn, it is profaned. The body is within everyone's reach, it is exposed to time, to wear, and will therefore leave a mark on material space. The body, without a doubt, is a space of perception, of action and of practice that has occupied and will continue to occupy an important place in contemporary art, remaining a permanent focus of attention.
Biology has taken on the study of living beings, their origin and evolution, of how a body is built and how it functions, its nutritional, reproductive, pathogenic, morphological functions, among others. “A body is not empty. It is full of other bodies, pieces, organs, parts, tissues, kneecaps, rings, tubes, levers and bellows. It is also full of itself: it is everything it is;” (Luc Nancy 2007) a body is impenetrable, yet at the same time it is dislocated and torn, it is profaned. The body is within everyone's reach, it is exposed to time, to wear, and will therefore leave a mark on material space. The body, without a doubt, is a space of perception, of action and of practice that has occupied and will continue to occupy an important place in contemporary art, remaining a permanent focus of attention.
In contemporary illustration, as in the art of the past, the desire to immortalize and possess has led illustrators and artists to choose themes in which the perishable and the ephemeral become constants. The drama between life and death has built its own iconography, allowing artists to appropriate objects and situations to bring this eternal struggle to light.
Through various illustration techniques, Iván Chacón, Pedro Antonio López and Andrés Trujillo present what once breathed, its trace and its transformation. Their depictions of the organic (the biological and its different facets) inevitably speak to the intention of perpetuating the mutable and the finite, of deceiving or delaying death through the image, despite the utopian nature of the task.
The exhibition will be open from February 17 to 28 in
Curatorship
Juan David Quintero
Santiago Rodríguez Ortiz