Masterfully challenges traditional academic compositions by converting upcycled domestic woven media into a multi-layered, structural statement within the discipline of international oriental rug sculpture portfolios. Drawing from the ancient Greek root Hypo-Mneme, meaning a tool for remembrance, the narrative tracks an intense graphic rhythm where the universal icon of a toy teddy bear is subversively camouflaged against a background of high-contrast black and white horizontal stripes. By allowing the raw texture of the Persian carpet fibers to permeate every volumetric line, the calculated visual layout captures an intimate everyday dreaming state, transforming a nostalgic silhouette into an undeniable architectural gravity free from temporary decorative artifice.
Hypomnema. 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.
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Oriental Rug Sculpture - Hypomnema #4, 2024. By Ivan Castiblanco
Hypomnema #4, 2024
From The Hypomnema Series
Handmade from an oriental rug.
Dimensions: 31.4 H x 27.9 W x 13.3 D in.
Ivan Castiblaco 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.

















