BIOGRAPHY:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2008
“Bodegones Y Paisajes”, Galeria Duran, Madrid, Spain
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2007
“Realismo Español”, De Conink Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2006
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2005
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
“Salon De Arte Iberoamericano”, Galeria Espacio Mexico, Montreal, Canada
“Zodiac”, Portals Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
“Pequeño Formato”, Galeria Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2003
“The Spanish Collection”, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland (Stables Gallery)
“Cielos”, Galería Benedito, Málaga, Spain
“Apertura De Exposiciones Del Consulado De Colombia En España”, Madrid, Spain
Museo Casa De La Moneda, Madrid, Spain (Sammer Gallery)
“Art Miami 2003”, Miami, Florida (Caesarea Gallery)
2001
“Exposición Segundo Congreso De Cine Español”, Granada, Spain
“Art Essential 2001”, Callgary, Canada (Jemac Art)
“Art Texas 2001”, Dallas, TX (Jemac Art)
2000
Almebarle Gallery, London, England
“De Sevilla A Matsu”, Exposición Sala Del Gobierno De La Isla De Matsu, Taiwan
1998
Fundación Arauco, Madrid, Spain
Galeria De Arte Cartel, Granada, Spain
Arte + Sur, Málaga, Spain (Cartel Fine Art
1996
“Fantasías, Realidad O Ficción”, Salón Cultural Fenalco, Bogotá, Columbia
“Herencia Hispana”, Latinamerican and Hispanic Art Museum, Miami, FL
Galeria Michelangelo, Bogotá, Columbia
1995
Galeria Michelangelo, Bogotá, Columbia
“Tres Artistas”, Banco Ganadero, Bogotá, Columbia
1994
“Un Pintor, Un Esculator Y Un Moderno Diseño”, Galeria Davril, Bogotá, Columbia
1993
“Perfiles Del Arte”, Galeria Rafaello, Bogotá, Columbia
1992
Consulado De Columbia En Miami, Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
The Cook County Treasurer’s Office, Chicago, IL
2007
Cesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2006
Casa De La Cultura Ayuntamiento Fuengirola, Spain
2004
Galeriá Benedito, Málaga, Spain
2003
Sammer Gallery, Marbella, Spain
2001
Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2000
“Naturalezas Muertas”, Galeria De Arte Cartel Fine Art, Málago, Spain
1995
“Fantasies Et Plants Convergents”, Consulat General De Colombie, Paris, France
1994
“Fantasia Y Caballos II”, Capilla Edificio Marco Fidel Suarez, Ministerio De Relaciones Exteriores De Colombia, Bogotá, Columbia
1993
“Fantasias Y Caballos”, Centro Cultural Colegio Gimnasio Moderno, Bogotá, Columbia
1992
“Rasgos Columbianos”, Instituto Colombiano De Cultura Hispánica, Bogotá, Columbia
PUBLICATIONS
Publicación de seis bodegone en edición de ellos de correos, 2003 – 2004, Casa De Moneda Y Timbre, Spain
“Prestige Magazine”, April 2003
“Absolute Marbella”, May 2003
“Finest”, June 2003
“Prestige Magazine”, May 2000
“Revista Kilex Del Arte”, August 2000
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in 1963 in the tropical and mountainous Venadillo-Tolima (Colombia), the young artist Juan Carlos Ospina introduces his art whilst in Spain, although he was backed by multiple exhibitions that traveled from his native country through cities as distinctive as Miami, París and Madrid. Closely linked since his beginnings in Spain to the prestigious Cartel Gallery, with branches in Málaga and Granada, he studied quite some time with the famous Chilean artist Muñóz Vera, one of the most reputable artists residing in Spain at the end of this century. Those courses, above all of techniques, are apparent in a large section of his creativity.
On the one hand he recalls a century (the 17th), with his methodical and well-balanced almost ascetic still-lifes and also artists such as Zubarán or Sánchez Cotán, who were able to pass on a deep love and feeling for the realm of trivia through their still-life work, like nobody else could. Objects were looked upon until that period as simple secondary elements.
But on the other hand the painter from Tolima has managed to forge a place, without preconceptions, next to the most incipient Modernism, although tinged by what we would call a timeless Classicism. His canvases and subjects treated therein are conceived stemming from an absolute reality, but it is a reality beyond its own limits, which is able to reach its greatest depths and subsequently become conscious of it.
Juan Carlos Ospina, in the bloom of his youth, is managing to break into a very difficult field; his realism is a full and blatant simile though surrounded by an unreal, sensual and disturbing halo.
It would be fair to end this short commentary by quoting that significant sentence, which the artist Howard Cognovits pronounced back in 1970: "Everything is such as it is, nonetheless different to how it seems to us". Ospina's art is different. and yet so close.
BORN:
August 2nd, 1963 in Venadillo-Tolima (Colombia)
EDUCATION:
Graphic Design: Centro de Estudio Artísticos, Bogotá, Columbia
Artistic Design: Estudio-Taller Ercoli Laorni, Bogotá, Columbia
Teoría del color y Artes gráficas: Manuel Rincón, Bogotá, Columbia
Paisaje al Aire Libre: Cooperativa de Artistas de Colombia (Cooperartes)
Óleo y Pintura Clásica: Taller Roberto Rodríguez (Bogotá, Columbia)
Texturas en el Arte Moderno: Conferencias y taller de primavera 1993, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Estudio de Luz, Espacio y Color: Taller Homero Aguilar, Paris, France
Técnica de pintura y composición: Fundación Arauco, Guillermo Muñoz Vera, Madrid, Spain