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By German Rubiano regarding the exhibit "Sublimation" in year 2006:
In an artistic career that's reaching twenty years, Pepe Gonzalez has shown that his dedication to painting has allowed him to show each year better and more accomplished pictures. This show entitled "Sublimation", corroborates what has been said. It's a beautiful group of relatively small oil paintings that concentrate on one of the author's favorite themes: everyday life objects. Keeping a high austerity and avoiding complex compositions, the painter reduces representation to a shelf viewed from the front and installed in a reduced space that holds a few objects.
Every painting builds a particular world in which a wide array of figures is reunited, viewed from different angles, with very tuned colors, soft contrasts of light and shade and delicate atmospheres. The term sublimation is a word taken from thermodynamics and that means the transition of an object directly from solid to gas state. Pepe Gonzalez employs it to point the transformation of trivial, everyday objects into rare and essentially poetic shapes in the painting. These shapes transmit experiences from his private context and, above all, ideas that bring up the rich intellectual preparation of the artist.
By Pepe Gonzalez regarding his own conception of art in the book "Art Expressions: Colombia 2005):
"For me, figures in paintings are like words in poems. The meaning and significance of figures and words follow the ways of the painter or the poet. One has to read poetry or see a painting with different eyes than those commonly used when approaching the concrete world. The logic that rules over artistic thought is not the same that rules over other forms of thought; therefore, words and images do not mean the same in art as in politics, science or journalism.
"When the observer enters into the play of the artist, s/he becomes part of the artistic creation. Not because the observer "understands" what the artist "wanted to say," but because his/her thought participates in exercises proposed by the artist.
"There is no such thing as a passive observer. The aesthetic experience is a two-way play. To approach a work of art means that the observer spends from within. To read an artistic work entails the artistic work of the one who reads. What's funny is that each person observes in his own and different way. A work of art produces - and should produce - diverse effects, not only among different observers but within each observer, as we are the product of many forces acting simultaneously inside ourselves.
"Just as words do, images have the ability to be evocative. To evoke is to somehow bring into memory. And each one's memory is unique; it refers to one's own history. Even if it is true that we may have a shared history, how we perceive it remains unique. This evocative power of images is what I seek in my paintings. This is why I cannot put them aside, they are born of my memory but they try to allude to something different for me than for others. However, occasionally it is similar and during some brief magic moments I feel we are not so alone in the universe." - Pepe Gonzalez regarding his own conception of art.
Lives and works in Bogota, Colombia
Education:
1980-1984. Philosophy, Javeriana University, Bogota.
1983-1984. David Manzur's Workshop, Bogota.
One Person Exhibitions:
2007 "De los trapos, los papeles y los lazos", Quinta Galer?a Bogota
2006 "Sublimacin", Arte consultores, Bogota.
2005 "De lo urbano y de lo rural", Quinta Galeria, Bogota.
2004 "De lo urbano y de lo rural", Quinta Galeria, Cartagena.
2003 "Pinturas", Galeria Arte Consultores, Bogota.
2001 "Dispersin", Quinta Galeria, Bogota.
2000 "De esas cosas de esas", Quinta Galeria, Cartagena.
1999 "Pinturas", Galeria Arteconsult, Panama.
1997 "En busca del patio perdido", Quinta Galeria, Bogot?.
1996 "Bodegones", Alonso Arte, Mirarte, Bogota.
1994 "Intra muros", Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
1993 "Jos" Antonio Gonzalez Gutiarreza, Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas.
1990 "Gonzalez Gutiarrez", Pinturas, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogot?.
1989 "Pinturas", Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira.
1988 "Pinturas" Galeria Casa Negret, Bogota.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2008 Pintemos juntos por Colombia, Club el Nogal, Bogota.
ARTBO, Bogotas art fair, Stand Quinta galeria. Bogota
Cuestin de Corazan Galeria el Museo, Bogota.
2007 No es lo mismo, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota.
2006 Pequeio Formato, Club El Nogal, Bogota.
2004 Cuestion de Corazon, Galeria El Museo, Bogota.
2003 Diez anos de adquisiciones de arte joven, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota.
2002 Espacios y atm?sferas, Galeria Arte Consultores, Bogot?.
Exposicion Colectiva, Quinta Galeria, Bogota.
2001 Concurso Latinoamericano de Pintura "Energia y vida", Enersis, Santiago de Chile.
2000 Solidarte 2000, Galeria El Museo, Bogota.
"Group show", Sazzing Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami.
1999 Art from Latin America, Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, East Hampton, Chicago, Palm Beach.
1998 FIA, Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Stand de Quinta Galeria, Caracas.
Generacion Intermedia, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota.
El arte en los 50 a?os de la Universidad de los Andes, Claustro de la Ense?anza, Bogota.
1997 Pequeno formato, Quinta Galeria, Bogota.
Recreaciones: Versiones colombianas de la historia del arte, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota.
VIII Bienal de pintura y escultura, Galeria 1-2-3, San Salvador, El Salvador.
1995 Festival Latinoamericano, EUR, Roma.
1994 Exposicion inaugural, Museo Iberoamericano de Arte de Popayon.
1993 Art Miami 93, Stand Galeria Euroamericana, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami.
Obras para el Museo de Arte Moderno de Popayan, Galeria Casa Negret, Bogota.
VI Saln Regional de Artistas, Zona 4, Corferias, Bogota.
1992 30 x 30 x 30, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
Tazarte, Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas.
Art Fi 92, Centro de Convenciones, Bogota.
Doce para un fin de ano, Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas.
1991 Cock, Gonzalez Garcia, Gonzalez Guti?rrez, Uribe Holguon, Galeria Arte 19, Bogota.
Pre-bienal de Cuenca en Bogota, Museo de Arte Contempor?neo, Bogot?.
Son Seis, Galeria Diners, Bogota.
1990 XXXIII Sal?n Nacional de Artistas, Corferias, Bogota. Exposicion Colectiva, Galeria Iriarte, Bogota.
Imigenes y signos, Galeria El Museo, Bogota.
1988 Homenaje a Bogota en sus 450 anos, Galeria Casa Negret, Bogota.
Museum and corporate collections:
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota.
Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogota.
Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota.
Museo de Arte Moderno de Popayan, Popayan.
Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira.
Coleccion Enersis, Santiago de Chile.
Awards:
Honorary mention of the Chile friends of art corporation in the contest: Concurso Latinoamericano de Pintura "Energia y vida", Enersis, Santiago de Chile.
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