La doncella guerrera. Acrylic on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. 2010

Thanks to everyone who voted for The Holy Beauty Project on 3rd Ward and helped me spread the word. The voting closed last Thursday and the results are due early September -so, fingers crossed!. Also, thank you for the kind messages/comments supporting the new project! :) (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read my previous post).

This blog post is the first of three I’ll write about Volume I of The Holy Beauty Project. Throughout the years I’ve been trying to become more effective in explaining my work. Although you should usually get better at things with practice, it seems I’m only getting worse at this area. After so much time working with images, words have started to appear so fragile to me. It takes me ages to write down my thoughts on my work, and after I’m done with it, I kinda feel that everything I’m saying is bullshit. But sometimes it’s mandatory to discuss things. Right now, for instance, I feel the urge to tell you a bit more about my project, no matter how much it scares me to. I’ll start talking about the paintings, then the photos, and finally the video. But before I get started, I’d like to tell you where the whole idea comes from.

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Finally…the day has arrived. I’m shaking with excitement  while writing this post…here it is, the project I’ve been talking about for months now.

It’s the first volume of The Holy Beauty Project. You’ll be able to get a first glance of my most recent paintings, which I haven’t shown to anyone yet, while you check me dance around in a crazy videotaped photoshoot. Yes…you read it right: Painting + Photo + Video!!  :-)

SEE AND READ EVERYTHING ABOUT IT HERE!!!!

I was planning to launch the project by mid August, but I’m applying for an art call and the voting deadline is tomorrow. Please vote for me here!!! (Rate my portfolio).

Looking forward to your feedback :)

Details of 9 brand new paintings! (Click on the image for better view).

I’ve been keeping these back for a while now because they’re part of a big project I’m working on, that I’ll share with you very, very soon!

Will you be able to handle it? Stay tuned to find out…

;)

It’s been a while since I haven’t posted about articles related to my work. But this month I’m thrilled and very honored to be on the 15th Anniversary issue of Shock magazine, with 14 other young personalities of my country, who were chosen because they are changing the image of Colombia with their vision and work. Some of them are: Juan Pablo Salazar (leader in the fight for disability rights), Simón Mejía (musician from Bomba Estéreo), Oscar Ruíz Navia (Director of the movie El vuelco del cangrejo), Sebastian Saavedra (Pilot), among others.

Bellow you can click to read the article (in Spanish). Go here for the English version.

Shock. April 2010.

Here are some other recent articles about my work (in Spanish):

Neon. 2nd edition. 2010 + Filmed interview

Arcadia. December 2009.

Go here for more articles/interviews. On another note, the 2010 galleries are finally up on the website, with my latest work. Check it out!

Last January I met with Swedish artist Jonna Bergelin to work in an art book project inspired by the books On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Off the road by Carolyn Cassady. Most people have heard of only the first one. Actually, the length of the articles about the books on Wikipedia illustrates how unpopular is Off the road compared to On the road. However, both books tell two sides of the same story: the story of the Beat Generation, term that designated a group of adventurous writers inspired by jazz, poetry, drugs, sex, eastern religion, hedonism, and a general rejection of mainstream western values. Jack Kerouac is one of the writers, and he wrote his book as one of the bunch; Carolyn Cassady, on the contrary, was the wife and mother of 3 kids of another member, Neal Cassady; in her book she reveals the not-so-cool side of the story, and she breaks down the myth of the ‘wonderfully indomitable beatniks’.

Jonna designed the clothes, inspired by the the figure of Carolyn Cassady, and afterwards we met to create a series of photographs where I was the model. The final result is a book, titled Comme des Filles, that is currently being exhibited at Stockholm, Sweden Gallery Grafiska Sällskapet. As I promised on my Facebook, today I’m sharing with you more pictures from the series! I said I was going to show you the entire series but we’re now looking to possibly edit several copies of the book, and if I show you all the pics now I’d spoil the possibility of actually selling the book ;) hope you’ll forgive me! In the meantime, have a look at these:

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I first talked about this series back in October 2009…perhaps some of you have seen a couple of images posted on my Facebook page. I simply never found the right moment to post the whole series…I felt it was going to drown among paintings, drawings and random events, and would never get the attention I thought it deserved. But now it has passed way too much time and I feel better to post it now than to forget the pictures in my infinite photo archive…(click to enlarge).

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Girl with cradle and toys. Acrylic on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. 2010

I finished this painting last week. The model is Natalie Dybisz aka Miss Aniela, who I met in August 2009 to do a self-portrait collaboration. I started the painting right after I met with her, but stopped working on it for several months until the first week of February 2010. I’m very excited to share this with you, my first piece made (or finished) in 2010, that will be showcased soon in Singulière Plurielles, my second exhibition in Rennes, France!!

View of the flyer. I’ll be exhibiting with French artist Elsa Alayse at Gallery L’Antre Temps.

I’ll show the rest of my new work soon. In the mean time here’s a preview of my most recent series of drawings, which will also be exhibited at L’Antre Temps:

Pencil on paper. 28 x 24 cm. 2010

Stay tuned for more!