Gabriel Silva
Bio
Gabriel Silva studied advertising at the Universidad Tadeo Lozano, drawing and painting at Camdem Town, Art Institute in London, and engraving at the La Taile Douce workshop in Paris. In 1990 he received an honorable mention in the XXXIII Salón Nacional de Artistas, as well as in the II Bienal de Arte at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. In 1997 he was selected as a finalist with his project “Ambush” for the Luis Caballero Award. His work is part of important collections both in Colombia and abroad. His work reveals universes that emerge from an imaginary drawn from his remembrances, from the remnants of memory, from everything he has lived. He makes cartographies of dreamlike worlds, in which he recreates atmospheres and spaces conjured from a palette with an extensive chromatic spectrum. There is no specific reference but there is a constant reminder of science fiction, cinema, the traveling painters of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, among many others, where the landscape is the theme and also the pretext.
Statement
Gabriel Silva has concocted a universe of his own, imbued with a singular visual language in which he gestated dreamlike reveries that flood his imaginary. His landscapes open up to the viewer from a total point of view, a mental panopticon transferred to the canvas, where the artist draws back the veil of the scenarios he has conjured up. The open plane of his landscapes offers the gaze an invitation to enter the work and discover a sort of narrative observation. In his work one can feel that impulse that dwells within the writer of fantastic stories, an impulse that connects each character, each face and each being with the imaginary topographies and distant galaxies that we can only access through his paintings. His particular handling of color contributes to form atmospheres that add an enigmatic character to each of the figures, revealing that the supernatural lies in the creative will.
Additional information
Procedencia: Taller del artista (Bogotá)
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
