Bogota Fotografica 2013 (1)
During the months of May and July Bogota held international photography
festival Bogota Fotografica. This edition of the festival included a set of
conferences with international artist and curators, as well as workshops and
more than 20 independent exhibitions featuring the work of more than 100
artists focusing on contemporary landscape photography.
The following few articles will revolve around some of the
exhibitions and artists who I got to see during these past weeks as part of
Bogota Fotografica 2013.
MAV UJTL.
Museo de Artes Visuales featured the work of Chinese artist Cui XiuWen, this was by far the exhibition I liked the least -from a photographic standpoint.- the body of work shown is entitled Existential emptiness and revolved around the idea of being a woman in contemporary China. The photos are panoramic black and white metaphorical tableau landscapes that at first (and far) glance look like very Zen-like landscapes, but when looked at from a closer distance they appeared to be poorly executed and printed.
MAV UJTL.
Museo de Artes Visuales featured the work of Chinese artist Cui XiuWen, this was by far the exhibition I liked the least -from a photographic standpoint.- the body of work shown is entitled Existential emptiness and revolved around the idea of being a woman in contemporary China. The photos are panoramic black and white metaphorical tableau landscapes that at first (and far) glance look like very Zen-like landscapes, but when looked at from a closer distance they appeared to be poorly executed and printed.
Biblioteca Nacional.
Colombian artist Santiago Harker La otra Orilla. A conceptual series that advocates against documental objectivity in photography. Harker makes a case for photography as a subjective and distortive treatment of reality. The work is very pictorial and appealing with very saturated prints of multiple and parallel “realities” within the frame, the work distances itself from Harker previous more documental works towards a more conceptual and pictoric world.
Colombian artist Santiago Harker La otra Orilla. A conceptual series that advocates against documental objectivity in photography. Harker makes a case for photography as a subjective and distortive treatment of reality. The work is very pictorial and appealing with very saturated prints of multiple and parallel “realities” within the frame, the work distances itself from Harker previous more documental works towards a more conceptual and pictoric world.
Despite being a world wide renowned artist I had never seen
the work of Italian Franco Fontana and it was my personal favorite discovery
from all the artists I saw in Bogota Forografica. Franco Fontana makes beautiful
urban landscape photographs in a very minimalistic way. The work is colorful
and geometrical, its impossible not to be reminded of the work of Mondrian but,
it also made me think about Hopper. Very pictorial, esthetically solid and
unpretentious work.
Assaf Evron Exhibited a very abstract series entitled Cars. An
interesting approach of space and human realtionships depicting the prints of
human interaction with the surrounding landscape. The work also has a meta-photographic
aspect to it challenging the photograph
as a symbolic print.
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