About Your Work
Your creative interests revolve around the possibilities of pictorial image. You reflect on narratives and mythology, their iconography and symbolic content from which you explore the possibility of being updated today in Latin American everyday life.
You are interested in the concept of desire as origin, drive, engine, and sensation and its relationship with the self and the idea of sin. Pictorially, the image is strongly linked to this idea of desire, both visual and tactile. It puts the surface of the painting in tension, experimenting with various materialities and symbolic possibilities.
The relationship with images from different origins allows you to activate a personal and critical gaze, relationships and connections that emerge and reveal a singularity in your pictorial proposals.
In terms of painting, you propose a metaphorical dialogue between images from contemporary popular culture alongside classical and mythological iconography. The particular way of arranging these images in space creates a visual atmosphere, where plastic objects and plastic processes such as: photos, videos, and paintings, gain strength and give rise to an open and complex work.
Evoking vacations. In memory, a warm and humid feeling of going out with family to hot land, the beach. At some point in our lives, we have been tourists, travelers, but when we stop to be spectators of ourselves, the perspective changes and becomes reflective, experiencing a contemplative calm of a tourist, human landscape. Figures in the distance interact in a field of color which is a metaphor, water? A pool? A micro space?
This project began during the period of total isolation due to Covid-19 in 2020, faced with the impossibility of going out as a tourist to make new photographic and video recordings, I had to work with the material gathered during previous years in field trips.
This photographic material is worked on in the studio, recycled, cropped, and digitally edited; tourists are extracted from that place we can call “habitat” to be arranged in a new flat, neutral color space.
Biography
Gabriel Angel was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1992. He holds a Master's in plastic and visual arts from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (2019). He completed a Master's in visual arts at the National University of Colombia. Over the last 8 years, he has formalized a career as an artist showcasing his work individually and collectively in several fairs and institutional spaces nationally and internationally.
He is an interdisciplinary artist; his artistic thinking allows him to address symbolic issues of the image in his creative processes which encompass: painting, photography, video, and installation. He knows how to put technical knowledge at the service of his ideas; however, he takes them further, giving depth and poetic strength to his work.
Since 2017, he has directed the collective Caja Negra along with artist William Aparicio. He has developed an artistic career participating in various group exhibitions as an artist and cultural manager, formulating projects such as: “FLESH Visceral Painting” at the Casa Cano foundation (2017). He is part of the collective project Distrito Artistas Centro (DAC), has showcased his work individually at the Mecánica gallery (2018), and has participated in art fairs: Feria del Millón (2018) and Barcu, Spotlights (2020) Zoombasta por mi país Museo Nacional de Colombia (2021). His work has been exhibited nationally in the cities of Cartagena (Galería NH, 2019), Cali (Espacio Interferencia, 2019), and Bogotá (Galería el Garaje, 2018-2020).
Internationally, he has exhibited at the Museo de la Caja Real (San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 2020), the Ramón Alba de la Canal gallery, (Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico (2019), and Galería Azul Añil (Guanajuato, Mexico, 2020).
