Babel : Alejandro Castaño C. / [investigaion : Juan Luis Mesa Sanchez ; textos : Juan Luis Mesa Sanchez, Alejandro Castaño Correa]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castaño, Alejandro, 1961- artist.

Contributor:

Mesa Sánchez, Juan Luis, 1961- writer of supplementary textual content.

Universidad EAFIT, host institution, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Castaño, Alejandro, 1961---Exhibitions.

Castaño, Alejandro.

Castaño, Alejandro, 1961-.

Art, Modern--Colombia--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Sculpture, Colombian--Exhibitions.

Sculpture, Colombian.

Colombia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

131 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language Note:

Texts in Spanish and English.

Summary:

Collection of Colombian artist and the preceding exhibition in the Centro de Artes de la Biblioteca Luis Echavarría Villegas, of the Universidad Eafit. The exhibitions is composed of more than a hundred symbolic or conceptual elements in his sculptures and objects, created during more than 20 years of artistic development from his workshop in Rionegro (East Antioquia). The catalogue comprises a collection of small and large art objects, related to topics such as uprooting, borders, territories and forced travel. His sculptures represent figures sailors cast in silver or aluminum, horses of long legs in bronze, Viking style boats assembled with iron rods and carved in pieces of comino crespo wood, the classical wood of Antioquia.

Contents:

Re-visión = re-vision / Alejandro Castaño Correa

Conjugando el verbo imagen como lo escultural imaginario = Imagging as sculpting / Juan Luis Mesa Sánchez.

Notes:

"Febrero de 2017".

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held March 7 - April 25, 2017 at the Centro de Artes of the Biblioteca Luis Echavarría Villegas, of Universidad Eafit, Medellín, Colombia.

ISBN:

9789587204025

9587204026

OCLC:

993645573