Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Bio
Gonzalo Fuenmayor's work reflects a double cultural influence: Hispanic and North American. The artist eliminates the use of color associated with the tropics and adopts black and white as a way of defining his hybrid identity.
His work is represented in important collections and institutions such as the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation in Bogotá, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá or the Perez Art Museum Miami.
Statement
Gonzalo Fuenmayor (Barranquilla, Colombia, 1977) questions the notions of Caribbean identity and the stereotypes that this concept has generated through images that, by force of being repeated, have become local symbols such as bananas, pineapples and palm trees. In his works, made with charcoal, the artist represents that series of objects that transformed into "visual grafts" offer new readings and reflections on identity, the perception of the other and national culture.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
