El Museo

Carlos Rojas

Bio

Carlos Rojas (Facatativá 1933 – Bogotá 1997) fue una de las figuras centrales del arte abstracto en Colombia y uno de los artistas que definió el curso de la abstracción en América Latina. Entre 1953 y 1954 realizó estudios paralelos de arquitectura en la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá y de Bellas Artes en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, y posteriormente en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Roma, tras ganarse una beca en 1958.
Una vez finalizó su beca, el artista decidió emprender un viaje de regreso a Colombia por la ruta de Groenlandia. Visitó Alaska, Estados Unidos y México. Regresó a Colombia marcado por la experiencia que le habían brindado sus viajes por Europa y Norteamérica, en donde estaban los movimientos artísticos relevantes del momento, y empezó a enseñar la visión que le proporcionó su experiencia de vida y la decantación de su teoría artística.

Statement

Carlos Rojas, a careful observer and a curious and insatiable collector, explored the local situation and the human condition from the standpoint of reason and aesthetic sensitivity.
At the beginning of the 50s, he began his journey with the nature drawings he did while he was a young student at the Augustinian priest seminary. By then, Rojas had understood that nature was the foundation of everything. Then came the influences of American Cubism, where Rojas experimented with the space he lived in through fragmentation and ended up with his first approach to formal art: Papeles pegados. With this series, Rojas explored the discontinuity of lines with materials such as oilcloth, plastic and colored paper. In the 60s, mathematics and geometry, the straight line, the synthesis of form and the exploration of materials became the pillar of his work.

Carlos Rojas
Título de la obra: Sin título
Serie: América cruzados
Técnica y soporte: Mixed on canvas
Año de la obra: 1970
Medidas: 150 x 150 cm - 59 x 59 in
Precio: US$ 64,000.00
Wall reference
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in

Otros trabajos de El Museo

Otras galerías

Coates and Scarry
ROLF ART
Zagut
GALERÍA LAURA HABER
Art Code Space
Quadra
Sin título

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