Germán Londoño (born October 12, 1961, in Medellín, Colombia),[1] is a Colombian painter, draftsman and sculptor.[2] He studied in the Libe de Zulátegui Arts Academy in Medellín, Colombia and as a Master in Lithography at the Scuola Internazionale d' Arte IL Bisonte, Florence, Italy.[3]
Londoño's work has been exhibited in museums such as the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Antioquia, the La Tertulia Museum and the Museum of Lisbon. He has also exhibited in art galleries in Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United States.[4]
Reception
editArtNexus magazine says that Londoño uses "strategies such as humor and caricature" in his paintings to relay a narrative that "reveal the presence of a different sort of metaphysics: the farce of everyday life. In a short period of time, and from his first exhibition, Londoño has gone beyond all the premises of the transvanguardia, openly establishing his own style and shunning pre-determined formulas, to create his own universe."[5]
Hank Burchard from the Washington Post says the subjects he paints appear to be "save-the-whales familiar" and are "colorful and compositionally cunning". Titles such as Tribute to Antarctica and Woman Writing in an Island may or may not be politically correct, but they certainly are colorful and compositionally cunning.[3]
Ana María Coronel de Rodríguez says "the whimsically expressionistic character of his powerful figurative imagery has a fashionably postmodern air, seemingly a belated development from the Italian ultravanguard of the 1980s. His work's strength derives from a rigorously exercised, highly original capacity for structuring composition, a refined sense of color, and a controlled gestural brush-stroke."[6]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Jaggi, Maya (11 June 2015). "Colombia's visual artists emerge from 50 years of solitude". Financial Times.
- ^ Bloemink, Barbara (21 October 2005). "Germán Londoño". Vivir en el Poblado (307). Archived from the original on 30 November 2022.
Whether as a painter, draftsman or sculptor, Germán Londoño is an exceptional and solitary figure
- ^ a b Burchard, Hank (15 October 1993). "Medellin's Other Scene". The Washington Post. p. N60. ProQuest 307701842 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Aguilar, Jose Hernan (21 July 1991). "Aristizábal es quien susurra. Pero Londoño también expone en la Galería Garcés Velásquez en Bogotá". El Tiempo (in Spanish). p. 2E.
- ^ Ruiz Gomez, Dario (1998). "Germán Londoño". ArtNexus (28): 141–142. ISSN 0122-1744.
- ^ Coronel de Rodríguez, Ana María; IDB Cultural Center (1993). The Medillín Art-el: Five Painters from Medellín, Colombia: Rodrigo Isaza, Germán Londoño, Jorge Botero Luján, Carlos Guerra, Luis Alfonso Ramírez. Inter-American Development Bank. p. 4.
Further reading
edit- Londoño Vélez, Santiago (2001). Colombian Art: 3,500 Years of History (Illustrated ed.). Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Editores. ISBN 958-96982-7-1.