COLOMBIAN PRESENCE AT PINTA LIMA: THREE PROPOSALS FROM BOGOTÁ

By Violeta Méndez

Pinta Lima returns for its 12th edition from April 24 to 27, 2025, bringing with it three Bogotá-based galleries offering versatile and thought-provoking proposals. Together, they create a dialogue that spans a wide thematic universe characteristic of contemporary art: exploring the passage of time and materiality, questioning art history and identity, and exposing the visual culture of mass media.

COLOMBIAN PRESENCE AT PINTA LIMA: THREE PROPOSALS FROM BOGOTÁ

El Salón Comunal, Galería El Museo, and ArtNexus are the three Colombian institutions selected to participate in the upcoming edition of Pinta Lima—the only contemporary art fair in Peru that celebrates the diversity of Latin America's artistic and cultural scene. Through a variety of artistic expressions, these galleries encompass different interpretations of Latin American contemporaneity.

 

Salón Comunal – NEXT Section

Salón Comunal arrives at the fair's NEXT section with a proposal that explores time as a sculptor and matter as a witness to its passage. This year, the gallery presents the work of Cecilia Ordoñez and Bernardo Montoya, two artists who—through ceramics and painting—engage in a dialogue with the persistence and transformation of materials.

Cecilia Ordoñez’s ceramics condense the memory of gesture and the plasticity of fired earth. Her pieces reveal a process in which fire and time consolidate forms that evoke the archaic and the essential. The manual trace fuses with the surface, leaving an indelible mark that bears witness to the history of matter. Her creations reflect a deep connection with nature and tradition, combined with technical skill to produce exceptional pieces.

 

Bernardo Montoya, on the other hand, works with layers of paint that settle like geological strata. His works are accumulations of gestures that, through their superimposition, generate material landscapes where time is not merely recorded but becomes the protagonist. Erosion, construction, and disappearance coexist in his pictorial practice, reminding us that every image is, in essence, a remnant.

Galería El Museo – Main Section
For its participation in the Main Section of Pinta Lima 2025, Galería El Museo presents a selection of six contemporary artists whose practices span geometric abstraction, pictorial figuration, conceptualism, cultural critique, collage, and assemblage. The collection of works engages with diverse visual languages that, from individual perspectives, reflect on art history, cultural identity, the media, and architectural space.

 

Gonzalo Fuenmayor articulates a dense symbolism through charcoal drawing, evoking tensions between the tropics and the Western gaze, between migration and identity construction. Camilo Bojacá uses appropriation and architectural space to interrogate structural notions through graphite assemblages on period prints, while Jorge Cabieses explores geometry through hybrid cultural references, using textiles and cork as surfaces to rethink color and form.

The selection is rounded out by Marco Mojica, who contrasts painting tradition with contemporary visual culture to question notions of the real and the represented; Óscar Abraham Pabón, who intervenes in geometric patterns and concrete forms to imbue them with new meanings; and Fernando García Vásquez, whose painting reinterprets masterpieces of art history from a critical lens on memory, conflict, and absence, creating unsettling voids in recognizable landscapes.

 

ArtNexus – Main Section
This year, ArtNexus presents a selection of limited-edition graphic works in the fair’s Main Section, featuring artists such as Fernando Bryce, Sandra Gamarra, Antonio Pichillá, Darío Escobar, Antonio Seguí, Álvaro Barrios, Edwin Monsalve, and Daniel Senise, among others.

Through diverse approaches and techniques, these editions share a critical gaze on history, memory, and systems of representation. Whether by revisiting official narratives, appropriating popular imagery, or blurring the line between art and archive, the works open a dialogue that transcends the graphic medium to address fundamental questions of identity, politics, and visual culture.

 

Pinta Lima’s twelfth edition will take place from April 24 to 27, 2025, at Casa Prado, Lima (Peru).

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