Mónica González Tobón
Bio
(Barranquilla – Colombia, 1971)
She graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (1988 – 1994) with First Prize in Sculpture.
8 solo and 3 two-person exhibitions in Peru and Germany.
Participation in collectives and art fairs in Peru, Canada, Greece, Germany and Russia.
Awards and distinctions: First Prize, Sculpture Contest, Luís Hochshild Plaut, CADE, Lima (1999); Selected for the III International Sculpture Symposium of the Fines Marble School Consortium, Almería, Spain (1999); Third Prize, Burj Dubai Architectural Complex, United Arab Emirates (2004); Honorable Mention Women in the Arts 2007, Museum of Americas, Florida, USA (2007); First Prize, Peter & Adriana Hobart Award, San Miguel, III Edition, Lima (2013).
Works in public spaces in Lima (Peru), Büdelsdorf (Germany) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
Statement
In recent times, chaos and uncertainty have removed the foundations on which the logic and perspective conquered by man are established. We have spent a lot of time at home while habits, customs and life itself were faltering, the lines and right angles of architecture have been transformed, creating a supra-structure capable of also encompassing the imponderable: the soul that lives in each one of us. Now it is this being that inhabits the void that shapes and transforms it, the perspectives overlap, the verticals become diagonals and the windows and doors become escape spaces, finding in this dynamic architecture a form of freedom and catharsis.
González Tobón expresses through the void created by the planes of curved and bent stainless steel sheets his plastic language: abstract, geometric and with a marked interest in the spirituality that its forms contain.
