Amazing and so long over due. One of the final afternoons spent in Bogota I went and had a look around a contemporary art museum nearby our hostel. We had actually tired to go a couple of days before and looked around a smaller exhibition. Failing to realise that we needed an entirely different building we gave up the search after going around in circles and asking for directions just too many times. We had a Juan Valdez coffee instead (coffee planter collective). I have missed art galleries. They had a good collection, notably there were paintings by Cezanne, Ernst and Bacon. We breezed through an exhibition about Colombian money and money printing, the detail and insignia on bank notes through History has been so detailed (header to fake that way, or simply because its money so it has to look expensive?) I didn't do much reading but its the kind of exhibition someone like my dad would have loved. We made our way on and up to the top of the building to look at some fantastically whimsical photography. I particularly loved the work by ... And finally some work on display by students at one of the Art Colleges in the city. The most memorable for me was an installation of stencilled dust on the floor, that spread out from one of the corners and dissipated. as well as some very high quality drawings.
Max Ernst - up close and in real life this painting was breath-taking.
This was also amazing
English money making machines - the mint Birmingham
I think this guy lived the life I aspire to have, a true explorer documenting with a true lyrical beauty what he came across on his travels.
This was the stencil floor installation, it looked better on the floor of the exhibition and in real life. The fragility of something that could be so easily damaged but looked so delicate and beautiful was powerful, I felt inspired to start creating again.
I left feeling like I had my soul massaged a bit, I needed that visual stimulation, it was long over-due.
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