Beauty in Ambiguous & Contradictory Images

Mateo Pizarro is a Colombian artist who lives and works in Mexico. He is fascinated with images that are ambiguous, contradictory and draws on the beauty that arises from an incomplete drawing.

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For his next project, Bestiario de Animales Inexistentes, Pizarro will work hand-in-hand with Maria del Mar Gámiz, a student of novohispanas at UNAM (Mexico City). She will collect selected writings from such historians, writers and scholars as: Bernardino de Sahagun, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Juse Durand and Antonio Pigafetta and Pizarro will create a series of fantastic drawings based on the descriptions of each animal.

Born │ Colombia, 1984

Education │ Bachelor’s degree in Art and Media from the University of Los Andes (Bogotá, 2010).

Awards │ 2014 Grants & Commissions Award from CIFO.

Selected Exhibitions │ No Hay peor ciego que el que no quiere oír at the Valenzuela y Klenner Art Gallery (Bogotá, 2011), El Cuadro Roto y Otras Imágenes Adulteradas at La Miscelanea Art Gallery (Mexico City, 2010). Group exhibitions include: Bidimensional en un Entorno de Video at the ArtBo Art Fair, Valenzuela Klenner Art Gallery (Bogotá, 2011), Qué Subasta!, in la Fundación Santiago Corazón (Medellín, 2011), ArtBo Art Fair at the Valenzuela y Klenner Art stand (Bogotá), Español Embajada - Colsanitas artistas emergentes muestran (Bogotá, 2011). Actividad Académica, Taller sobre la luz y la fotografía (in collaboration with Guillermo Santos and Bárbara Santos), Residencia en la Tierra, (Quindío).