Saul Sanchez Barbosa
Saul Sanchez Barbosa
Bogota (1977) - Colombia
Lives and works in Bogota. Colombia
His work has been focused on the study of spatial conditioning, both at a conceptual and formal level. Through projects developed from a pictorialist´s practice and its expansive possibilities, he attempts to deepen his reflections on learning schemes, the crossing between the hegemonic and subordinate experiences, and universes inhabited by power and its meaning. Furthermore, he is interested in the way painting can act as a medium in constant motion, inquiring on its physicality as an object and its relationship with space.
Education 2005 BFA. Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá ASAB. Bogota, Colombia Solo Exhibitions 2013 “No se dice nunca lo mismo” Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia 2011 “Pato o Conejo” Solo Project, Arte Santander 2011, Santander, Spain “Pato o Conejo” Espacio ANEXO, Espacio Mínimo Gallery, Madrid, Spain “Pato o Conejo”. NueveochentaArte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia 2010 “Regla de Tres” Arróniz Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico 2009 “Regla de Tres” NueveochentaArte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia 2008 “YOU ARE HERE” Centro Colombo Americano de Bogota, Colombia “YOU ARE HERE, VOUS-ÊTES ICI, USTED ESTA AQUÍ” Alianza Francesa de Bogota, Colombia “YOU ARE HERE”. Museo de Arte Moderno de Pereira, Colombia 2007 “YOU ARE HERE”. Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia 2006 “Expansion y Contraccion de un Espacio Vacio”, Young Artists Cycle, Alianza Francesa de Bogota, Colombia 2005 “ I-Real” Sala Alterna Galeria Santa Fe IDCT, Planetario de Bogota, Colombia “ I-Real - Local in-nobiliaria” Centro Cultural Universidad de Salamanca, Bogota, Colombia 2004 “Dislocaciones” Centro Cultural Universidad de Salamanca, Bogota, Colombia “Una Noble Causa” Galería El Garaje, Bogota, Colombia Distinctions and Awards 2013
Honorary Mention. VI Bi-dimensional Art Salon. Gilberto Alzate Avendano Fundation, Bogota, Colombia 2006 Young Artists Cycle Award, Alianza Francesa de Bogota, Colombia 2005 Honorary Mention. La Libertad Guiando al Pueblo. Embassy of France, Bogota, Colombia Honorary Mention.Concurso Nacional de Pintura BBVA, Bogota, Colombia 2004 Ponchados, Scholarphips and Awards for the Arts 2004, Planetario de Bogota, Colombia
Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 2012
2011
2010 2009 2008 2007
2006 2005
2004
Naturaleza Desmaterializada, NC arte, Bogota, Colombia Escapando con el Paisaje, Collateral Exhibition to the 11th Havana Biennial, Provintial Arts Center, Havana, Cuba Yo, Chango, Border, Mexico City, Mexico Espacios Quebrantados, Arroniz Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico On the territory: Contemporary art in Colombia, Santral and Istanbul, Turkey On the territory: Contemporary art in Colombia, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey 42 Salon Nacional de Artistas, Cartagena, Colombia Un Territorio en Puntos Suspensivos, Diego Rivera House Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico Lenguajes del Papel, El Museo Gallery, Bogota, Colombia Ultimas Adquisiciones de la Coleccion del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia. Dorado, Platform for Art Interventions, International Art Fund Foundation, Madrid, Spain Preambulo, XIII Salon Nacional de Artistas - Central Region, Tunja, Colombia X. Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia Siguiente Por Favor, Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia Viajeros,Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia Bi-dimensional Art Salon, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Fundation, Bogota, Colombia Pintura Fresca, Arte Cámara. Camara de Coemrcio de,ç Bogota, Colombia Fotografica Bogota, Desbordando la Objetividad, Museo de Bogota, Planetario de Bogota, Colombia Al Agua, Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo, Colombia Pintura Sea lo que Sea, Cu4rto Nivel Fundation, Bogota, Colombia Arte joven 2006, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia Lugar- No lugar - New Names Program, Luis Angel Arango Library, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia II Bi-dimensional Art Salon. Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Fundation, Bogota, Colombia RELACIONAL. Galería Santa Fe IDCT, Planetary, Bogota, Colombia 3 Propuestas Pictoricas, El Museo Gallery, Bogota, Colombia Practicas Artisticas de lo Popular al Arte, ASAB, Bogota, Colombia XII Concurso Nacional de Pintura BBVA, Luís Angel Arango Library, Bogota, Colombia
Publications 2011
Contemporary Painting in Latin America, Edward Shaw, Celfin Capital, Chile Mundo Magazine No 40, Encuentros y Desencuentros, pag 50-51, Colombia 2012 Nomadas Magazine No 32, Jaime Ceron, Universidad Central, Colombia Living Art Room Magazine No 2, Mexico 2009 Art Nexus Magazine No 119, pag 96- 97, Maria Jose Ramirez, Colombia
Corolario, 2013 307 bags of wood-shavings and sawdust-variable dimensions. Acrylic paint - 8 x 8 x 8cms.
Bags of wood shavings collected for 4 years by a stretcher frames’ manufacturer and remains of dried acrylic paint collected for 4 years that remained in my palette every time I made a painting.
Estudio para garra de pata de perro, 2013 Wood and acrylic paint 50 woodcarved pieces Variable dimensions.
No se dice nunca lo mismo is a project that questions the presence of patterns in systems and structures (primarily associated with learning) that limit or enhance the opportunities for human action. This project shows how systems and patterns can fail without disappearing or even being transformed. Thus the break with what is expected as a response to a determined system can only occur within the confines of its own possibilities.
No se dice nunca lo mismo - 2013 -Exhibition view.
No se dice nunca lo mismo- Estudio para cabeza de perro - 2013 -Pencil on canvas and acrilyc on mdf. 5 pieces of 143 x 119 x 5,3 cms.
Scale Guide - 2013 - Ink on linen - 95 x 74 cms.
No se dice nunca lo mismo - 2013 - carved wood. Variable dimensions.
Hier, bleib, nein - 2013 - Video - 11:35 Min. Http://vimeo.com/70351033
Larghetto para tres movimientos - 2013 - Video - 3:18 Min. Http://vimeo.com/60294459
Schoner Hund - Platz - 2012 - Acrylic on canvas - 170 x 190 cms.
Schoner Hund - Hopp - 2012 - Acrylic on canvas - 200 x 170 cms.
Exhibition view No se dice nunca lo mismo
Leccion 54 - 2012 - Acrylic on MDF, and book -500 x 400 cms. Transcription of the Lesson 54 from the book: Taquigrafia Gregg edicion diamante. Some conjugations of the verb “to copy”.
Leccion 54 - 2012.
Pato o Conejo entwines different lines of investigation: painting, perception, exhibitionism and visual illusions. Painting: Usually, painting is magnified in relation to other artistic disciplines such as video or installation, painting bears a mysterious and captivating poetic quality which quickly absorbs the senses. Thinking about this kind of technical favoritism, the project presents a dichotomy between painting and video projection in a series of hidden paintings and video projections of these paintings over an empty canvas. In this way, it emphasizes the value of the image over the material production of a painting. Perception: The subject of perception is a complex one. However, the project doesn't try to elaborate a discourse around perception main issues, but instead, it is interested in the way we experience images and their medium, ultimately it inquires how we trust in images although we know that they often behave like absent figures in our live. Exhibitionism: Using the hidden paintings as a formal excuse that depict exhibitionist animal behaviors, Pato o Conejo questions the ambiguous significance of exhibition and exhibitionism, that in the sphere of an art gallery it allows its to set out a position on seen and been seen. Visual Trap: All that glitters is not gold, and things aren't always as they seem, are phrases of popular culture that allow us to suspect that we cannot always trust in what we see, or in the way things present themselves. A box held by a slim and elegant golden branch turn into a perfect example of the deceptive shadows that inhabit of our everyday experience. Pato o Conejo - Paciencia, astucia, prudencia - 2011 Gold-plated object, cardboard box 48 x 37 x 50 cms.
Pato o Conejo - Constante pero esforzado ejercicio de repeticion - 2011. Acrylic and oil on canvas 240 x 100 x 37 cms.
Esto es solo para un museo - 2011 - Acrylic on canvas - 503 x 460 cms.
Exhibition view - Pato o Conejo left: Pato o Conejo - 2011 - Right: Untitled - 2011
Pato o Conejo - 2011 - video projection, mapping on MDF 65 x 130 cms.
Untitled - 2011 - 35 mm slide projector, 80 slides, stacking of 20 paintings of 100 x 100 x 4.7 cms.
Regla de tres, is about a giant rolled painting that is laying on a table, waiting to be cutted according to the whims of those interested in buying a piece, just as if they where at a fabric shop. The gallery where the project is presented remains empty, and once the whole painting is fragmented and sold, just the table and the cardboard tube that hanged it remain in the space.
Exhibition view - Regla de tres - 2009. Cutting table, wood and formica - 90 x 243 x 181 cms.
Regla de tres - 2009 - 19 cuts of the one painting that measured 1,70 by 15 meters.
You Are Here is a reflection on the place, about being "here " or "there", and the consequent impossibility of being simultaneously elsewhere. Since returning to the basics with which you learn to designate the site (the adverbs "here" "there,�inside "and " outside ") in-school records, but also books and language dictionaries when they are used to meet one of the many requirements for a shift in geographical location, "there is a necessity to make explicit the presence in one place, with emphasis on basic dichotomies here, there and in-out; pointing out the different social phenomena, political and cultural about being in one place.
You are here - In the middle - 2007 - Acrylic on canvas, 113 x 167 cms.
You are here - On top of - 2007 - Acrylic on canvas, 113 x 113 cms.
You are here - In front of - 2007 - Acrylic on canvas, 113 x 167 cms. Turnstile - 2007 - Installation view - Dimensions variable.
Exhibition view - You are here - 2007 Wall text, sign made in fiberglass and polyester resin - Dimensions variable.
You Are Here - How do you say this in english? - 2009 - Installation 8 Light box, programed LED's and sensor.
You Are Here - Paris - 2007 - c-print, 46 x 58 cms. You Are Here - La Habana - 2012- c-print, 75 x 105 cms.
Expansion y contraccion de un espacio vacio, greatly amplifies the scale of the format, in other words, closer to the architecture of exhibition space. They used a device to distance the pieces of the wall, revealing its objectivity, and contrasting a number of other objects on the ground, which promote identification of the painting with the direct space of experience. The images come from new urban situations, in this case apparently marginal sites, whose significance is enhanced by the broad fields of color that surround these images.
Expansion y contraccion de un espacio vacio -El jardin Secreto -2006 Acrylic on canvas - 114 x 147 x 20 cms.
Expansion y contraccion de un espacio vacio - 2006 - Acrylic on canvas - 500 x 170 x 20 cms.
Expansion y contraccion de un espacio vacio - 2006 Acrylic on canvas and wood - 170 x 250 x 20 cms.
Detail - Expansion y contraccion de un espacio vacio
On a set of several bottle caps a series of miniature paintings have been produced that show different shots of city landscapes. Each cover is arranged independently over a wide area, contextualizing the exhibition space with all its architectural details, which amplifies or expands the scale of the painting project.
Embotelamientos- 2005 - Acrylic on top of container - diameter 2.5 cms.
Exhibition view - 2005.