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Oscar Muñoz (Colombia) by Federico Suhurt

Colombian artist, born in Popayan, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Cali.

an artist is characterized by the use of photographic media and mechanical impressions. In these works, the author raises the question of identity, social, political and the disappearance of people.

Narciso

Muñoz In this work raises the issue of Greek myth through a pool of water on which to draw his portrait with a thin layer of coal dust, it begins to be corrupted and deformed by the passage of water and its movement. Thus the author puts us in a clear parallel between the reflection of Narcissus in a reservoir of water, which drowns trying to reach him, and the decomposition of the portrait of Muñoz, showing the futility of obsessive love itself. With this work the author presents us also that our youth is fleeting and desvanescente.








Breath

are a set of polished steel mirrors printed with invisible images achieved with half fat that tarnished the image becomes visible. The images of people were missing for political persecution. Muñoz metaphorically about this topic tries to position them to the viewer, his breath fogging the same images appear and disappear to leave moisture sprouting its own reflection, and presents us with the idea of \u200b\u200bdisappearance and forgetfulness, as we to believe that our image is superior to that memory or primary.

Re / Treatment

Here the artist presents a series footage of the process of creating drawings (portraits) made with brush and water on concrete. When passing the wet brush on the concrete it leaves a mark that lasts a few seconds until the cement absorbs all the moisture and the mark disappears. As in the previous works, we see a clear set of appearance and disappearance of metaphors and forgotten.

an artist I find it highly interesting and valuable for the achievement of its strong metaphors but without resorting to high-tech items (like many artists where denotes a cloying and temptation of technology that often become obsolete or confusing the message, without grace) and creates his work with everyday items. In the work of this artist materiality, consistency, fluidity and physical properties of the object are very important and carefully chosen.

Federico Suhurt