In his first show in Miami and as a guest artist of the gallery, Julián León Camargo shows his paintings, through layers and layers of pigments, in an organic process of trial and error, taking his work to a place far away from where it was created.
If for Mondrian earlier, the beginning was the quest, for Camargo it is the pretext to keep on painting and connecting, which never ends within the limits of the canvas, and both artists share this point of departure.
Julián León Camargo’s work happens in between two parallel powers. On the one hand, a pictorial desire, experimental in nature, focusing on the process rather than on a predetermined outcome and, on the other, an analytical interest, intellectual in nature, which tries to make sense and a systematic organization of that pictorial practice. In all his works, he tries to find the point of the perfect balance...between these two methods. This way, his paintings are impossible without a text, which may contain and make sense of them, either literally or metaphorically, but not as a destination or as a controlling agency, but rather as a trigger, a launching pad — a pretext.
Starting in 2003, Julián León Camargo has participated in several groups and solo exhibitions in Colombia, Germany, Spain, and Argentina, where he currently lives. In 2007, he was invited to participate in The Intricate Journey project in Berlin, an exchange residency program organized by the NGBK, and he participated in the residency program at La Tabacalera in Madrid in 2020. In 2013, he participated in a residency program for artists at the Art Department of the Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires. In 2014, he co-founded ESPACIO KAMM, an exhibition gallery for site-specific projects, in Buenos Aires, together with German artist Kirsten Mosel. In 2015, he was invited to participate in the fourth edition of the Biennial of the End of the World in Valparaiso, Chile.
Entrada actualizada el el 15 jun de 2021
¿Te gustaría añadir o modificar algo de este perfil?
