The artist is inspired by the relationships between the past and the present, creating works that function as archaeological finds. His pieces, which include floors and toys, reconstruct a historical material legacy, evoking the elaborate tiles of ancient Bogotá. His work allows the viewer to remember and become aware of the loss of cultural heritage, thus maintaining historical continuity.
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HYPOMNEMA SERIES
About the Hypomnema series: A term that is composed of the ancient Greek preposition Hypo-Mneme and literally means “commemorative memory.” It is the meeting of several layers in an object, the memory, the game, and the dreaming that emerge from the inner experience, both personal and every day, transmitted in a direct way through the idea of a universal toy and is a recurring element. of the Persian rug that permeates everything - floors, toys, drawings - sensations that come from the past, giving the viewer the ability to remember as if we were prisoners of a dream.
IVAN CASTIBLANCO
Ivan Castiblanco is a Bogotan artist with a master's degree in plastic and visual arts from the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá (ASAB), focusing on themes such as childhood and memory. His work, in different media, starts from a reflection on the relationship between past and present, the work of the artist Ivan Castiblanco works as an archaeological find, where floors and toys reconstruct a material legacy in history and remain in time, like the ornate tiles that stood in the city of Bogota of yesteryear. Castiblanco's work directly transmits to individuals news and sensations that come from the past, giving the viewer the ability to remember, in the face of the awareness of the loss of cultural heritage. continuity.
His work has been exhibited in places such as the old Matadero Distrital de Bogotá, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, the Biblioteca Márquez de San Jorge, in Funza and he has worked with different Colombian and Argentinean galleries.