Gabriel Silva

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.