Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Last, Past Generation, in the MOMA

Visitors by a sculpture by Ana Mercedes Hoyos.
The dozen years between 2003 and 2014 saw the deaths of at least 21 Colombian artists of note. Bogotá's Museum of Modern Art, located across Ave. Septima from the Torre Colpartria, is holding an exhibition. called In Memoriam, of works by those 21, among the best known of whom are Enrique Grau, Bernard Salcedo, Hernan Diaz and Ana Mercedes Hoyos.

The museum's website calls this generation of soldiers 'innovative' and says that they "consolidated modernity" "broke with traditional forms" and "used non-traditional materials."

An abstract mess, by Armando Villegas.
Art by no other name. Cuentas, by Bernardo Salcedo. 

Delirium of the Dead Nuns, by Juan Rodas.
Visitors walk past paintings by Gustavo Zalamea.
Enrique Grau, by Hernan Diaz.

Paintings by Juan Antonio Rodas.
Scenes by Maria Helena Bernal.


There are no condors, nor abundance, nor liberty, nor canal.


Squares by Ana Mercedes Hoyos.

Eggs exhibit by Bernard Salcedo.
By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours

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