camilo sanín

“Confluencia – Camilo Sanín” – Solo Art Exhibition in Caracas, Venezuela

camilo sanin — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:10:38 +0000

Under the title “Confluencia – Camilo Sanín”, Galería Okyo, will exhibit my latest body of work from June 23 until July 28, 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela. This will be my first solo in South America.

The exhibition has been curated by Gerardo Zavarce with an accompanying catalogue. Here is an introductory excerpt of the text:

“Colombian artist Camilo Sanín transits through his recent work, a space of confluence, understood as a meeting point aimed at the construction of a visual poetry that favors the dialogical synthesis of the different, the seemingly contrary, the distant, the opposite, the plural and diverse.

Beyond line, beyond color and shapes, Sanín suggests the emergence of an unprecedented horizon of meaning, a personal language that converges the complex traditions that make up the cultural itinerary of this young artist.

Therefore, there is the need for the pictorial dilemmas to harmonize within a visual field of tensions and to traverse clearly defined signs that denote certain identities: north and south, the rational and the organic, urban and rural, the surface and the underlying structures without suppressing the disruptive forces inherent in these differences.”

The opening will be this Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 11am.

Galería Okyo
Avenida Veracruz
Edificio La Hacienda
P.B, Local 2-T4
Las Mercedes, Caracas 1060

Upcoming opening of Art Lima 2013 International Art Fair (April 25-28)

camilo sanin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:50:03 +0000

On Thursday, Art Lima, the first International Art Fair held in the Peruvian city, will open its doors.

The fair features 34 galleries, bringing together visual artists, collectors, curators, critics, and journalists from all over the world, as well as the general public.

Galeria Okyo from Venezuela will exhibit a selection of my latest works at the fair.

The locale for this first Art Lima will be the Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ejército (ESDGE) and visiting hours are daily from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m. The fair will close on April 28th, 2013.

Substrative in Nature and Composicion en Azul go (Art)Underground

camilo sanin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:30:51 +0000

The Crystal City BID has started a new program, Art Underground, and has used Substrative in Nature and Composicion en Azul as wayfinding signage.

Both paintings have been enlarged and now cover two sections of the Art Underground area: five blocks of Crystal City’s interior retail space, that is being transformed into an arts and cultural destination with a Synetic Theater, FotoDC exhibits, art galleries, artist studios and pop up ArtJamz; with more programs to come.

The open house of Art Underground is on Saturday, March 16^th from 6pm – 10pm at 2100 Crystal Drive for everyone that is interested.

20-Foot Detail of Epipelagic One installed in Crystal City

camilo sanin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:31:14 +0000

A detail of my painting Epipelagic One has been enlarged and installed by the main entrance of the Crystal City Marriott at Reagan National Airport.

Epipelagic One is the first painting in a series that is interested in mapping imagined trajectories through spaces one’s physical body is unable to traverse. The epipelagic zone is the uppermost area of an ocean. The sunlit zone.

Many thanks to the Crystal City BID for completing this amazing project.
I haven’t had a chance to see the final installation in person but the initial images look great. The final aluminum panel is 60 x 240 inches.

Living and Working at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

camilo sanin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:47:53 +0000

I am currently living and working as an Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor of Art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

During my time here, I have been teaching a studio art topics course, Decoding the World of Movie Poster Design. Throughout the class, the students and I have been exploring the principles and fundamental elements of post-WWII movie poster design.

In addition to my class, I have been living and working at the artist house. It is in a beautiful and secluded part of St. Mary’s College of Maryland along Mattapany Road.

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The first painting of 2013

camilo sanin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:45:02 +0000

A beginning and ending of sorts.

Fissure (Acrylic on Canvas, 2013, 54 x 48 in.) is the first painting of the new year and the last work completed in the Takoma Park studio. The Washington DC studio has been closed down, as I get ready for the residency at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Half Past Midnight acquired by Capital One Financial Services

camilo sanin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:52:46 +0000

Capital One Financial Services has added the painting Half Past Midnight (Acrylic on Canvas, 2012, 40 x 50 in.) to their collection.

It will be displayed at their Corporate Office and Headquarters.
1680 Capital One Dr.
McLean, Virginia

Countershading One acquired by McDermott Will & Emery

camilo sanin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:36:09 +0000

McDermott Will & Emery, a leading international law firm, has recently acquired Countershading One (Acrylic on Canvas, 2012, 40 x 40 in.).

The painting will be hung in their Washington D.C. office.
The McDermott Building
500 North Capitol Street, N.W.

Vista: Unfolding the Mapping Process

camilo sanin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:50:42 +0000

Vista, an exhibition that displays Contemporary Works by Latin American artists, is currently on display at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

The title of the exhibition, Vista, is Spanish for “view.” It draws upon the inspirations of the Latin American artists whose works are featured. These artists pull from the creative process of mapmaking and touch upon issues of identity, immigration, and memory. At the same time they explore topography, urbanity, space, and utopian views of the future.

Through structures, abstractions, urban landscapes, installations, and new media, Vista reveals different approaches to the process of understanding territory from the social to the personal, from the concrete to the abstract, from the exceptional to the conventional. All the artworks have been brought together to encourage debate, to show the different possibilities of maps, and to further our understanding of them as evolving social, political, and cultural constructions derived from changing cosmologies and canons.

This exhibition includes works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic, photography, video, embroidery, and collage, by artists from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere. One of the works on display is Epipelagic One (Acrylic on Canvas, 2012, 20 x 20 in.) as seen above.

This exhibition is the first full-scale Latin American exhibition held at UMUC. It was organized by the UMUC Arts Program alongside two guest curators: Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli; and Brian Young, curator in the University’s Arts Program.

Vista will be up until Sunday, November 25, 2012 at the UMUC Arts Program Gallery: University of Maryland University College, 3501 University Blvd. East, Adelphi, MD 20783.

Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

I hope you have the opportunity to enjoy the work.

Public Installation goes up in Crystal City, Virginia

camilo sanin — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:05:41 +0000

After an initial invitation by the Business Improvement District (BID) of Crystal City, I have worked with a number of curators to select six of my latest paintings for the Art Walls project.

The Art Walls project infuses color and character into the area while leading to fun, whimsical, and interesting spaces for Crystal City’s guests, residents, and employees.

From my six paintings, 12 details have been enlarged and UV printed on alumilite panels. These panels have been installed on Clark Street South in Arlington, Virgina, an area that has been restored and re-landscaped.

The license of this project titled “Confluence” extends initially for five years.

Here are the first images taken by Crystal City BID. More photographs to follow.