Néstor Marcelo Gutiérrez
Bio
He was born in Sobral, Brazil in 1980.
Néstor Marcelo Gutiérrez is an artist and university professor.
He studied art at the University of the Andes, did a master's degree in visual poetics at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in visual arts at Sint Lukas Brussels.
His plastic work explores the staging of various materials, especially pictorial, textual and archival, experimenting with their narrative possibilities.
He has participated in exhibitions in Bogotá, Brussels, SãoPaulo, Maastricht and Prague.
He currently lives in Bogotá.
Statement
Néstor sees the world as a succession of different-sized stages, where, instead of just being there, objects present themselves, weigh, rest on some surface and have much to tell us. Art making is thus a narrative exercise of direction: the stages are recreated or intervened and objects are carefully placed one beside the other in order to generate new associations and relations. The results are paintings, installations, performances and poems which move between the abstract and the figurative, as if that difference did not exist, in a coming and going between meaning and meaninglessness, driven by an inevitable intuition.
Additional information
La mayoría de sus pinturas son paisajes y estos paisajes explotan dos maneras: una ‘clásica’, donde hay un fondo amplio y las figuras están centradas; y otra ‘modernista’ donde fondo y figura se funden en monumentales humedales, incluso si los formatos son pequeños.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
