STATEMENT

Natalia Castañeda approaches the poetics of the territory from cartography, to trace free paths where affection, memory, travel and mysticism converge, in a respectful search for the environment that seeks to restore the essential and spiritual relationship with nature. Her work reflects on drawing and painting, taking these means to the limits with sculpture, to create topographies that are revealed by the route. Atmospheric plots and gestural impulses keep a poetic approach to the trade to immerse themselves in the medium in an unexpected way.

Evidencing symbolic thought is transcendental in the work of this artist. In the exercise of expanding the two-dimensional work towards the encounter with the viewer, she senses “topographies” which are revealed to her along the way and it is here that this symbolic capacity to give meaning and to encode the information intuited until its materialization in pieces of bulk and installations acts fully. On the other hand, so is anamnesis, that rescue of data obtained from the origin and that it wants to bring to the present, appealing to memory and to that capacity or symbolic-abstract instinct that is in the genesis of every work of art, to express with something tangible what is not.

BIO

Natalia Castaneda, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, 1982

Lives and works between Barcelona (ES), Manizales and Bogota (COL). Bachelor of Arts by the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (COL) and École National Supérieure de Beaux Arts, Paris (FR); Master and PHD in Fine Arts Bellas Artes, Universidad de Barcelona (ES).

She has exhibited recently at institutions such as CIFO Art Space, Miami (USA); Flora Ars+Natura. Bogota (COL); MAMBO, Bogota (COL); MEIAC, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, MEIAC, Badajoz (ES); Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Madrid (ES); Caza d’Oro. Le Mas-d’Azil (FR); Centro de Museos de la Universidad de Caldas. Manizales (COL); Museo de Arte de Pereira (COL); Tabacalera, Madrid (ES); ; Museo de Arte de Pereira. Pereira (COL) ; Museo El Castillo. Medellin (COL); El Parqueadero – MAMU. Bogota (COL); Museo Universitario de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin (COL); Sala Alcala 31, Madrid (ES); or Espacio Odeon. Bogota (COL)

Her works is parte of collections such as: Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica. Bogota (COL); CIFO. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Miami (USA); Coleccion JUMEX, Mexico DF (MX); Museo de Arte de Caldas. Manizales (COL) or Museo de arte Contemporaneo “Minuto de Dios”, Bogota (COL), and many others privates collections.