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Edwin Gil was born on December 11, 1971 in Itagui, in the city of Medellin, capital of the province of Antioquia and the major industrial region of Colombia. Antioquia is the birthplace of artists and incredible talent such as the painter Fernando Botero and the sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt. The oldest of six children, Gil studied business administration at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, where he also studied psychology. An absurd act of delinquency at the end of the 1990s cut short his studies in business education, but also led him to discover the true reason for his existence.

In April of 2000 he moved to the United States, and in June of that year had the first showing of his works in the Salon de las Americas, of the Union Planters Bank in Coral Gables. In the heat of Florida he saw reflected in his mirror a tireless dreamer, in search of a life justified by the love of art. Self-taught, he had the good fortune to work with his country’s great masters like Hector Favio Castaño, who “fed his spirit with the dirty world” of art, as the painter Jorge Botero Lujan expressed it, when Gil began his dizzying career in the art world. After leaving Miami, he established himself in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he became the principal focus of Hispanic art. Gil’s first works as a professional painter were devoted to flamenco, and coincidentally in the so-called “Queen City” he came to know the Spaniard Conchy Verdasco Farrell, coordinator of Hispanic programs for Charlotte’s public library, and found her to be a perfect accomplice in cultural promotion.

Together with Farrell, he launched the “A as in Art” program, Charlotte’s first festival of Hispanic culture, which has been ongoing for three years now, and whose presentation in 2007 is already assured, with a dozen activities planned. He also originated the project entitled, “Charlotte Paints the Virgin of Guadalupe,” which for the past two years has displayed works by local artists. This is an event involving the Hispanic Catholic community, which coincidentally has the largest number of worshipers in North Carolina. Together with others interested in the cinema, he co-founded the Seventh Art, which each month screens Hispanic films by great Latin American and Spanish directors.

Gil prepared the groundwork for the Cultural Mosaic project, a milestone event in the culture of Charlotte. This took place in the Bank of America showrooms, and its purpose was to provide funding for the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Together with the artist Lawrence Cann he started the Gallery Los Huevos, dedicated to carrying art to those in need. Together with Cann and the ballerina Linda Sutton he presented a festival of dance, song, painting, music and design, known in Charlotte and Miami as “Tango United.” Likewise, he founded a not-for-profit organization called “Artists United” designed to bring different cultures together through art. In addition to his myriad community activities promoting art, including appearances in short films by the Colombian cinematographer Catalina Echeverri, Gil has also found time for his first love – painting. In the bright world of Charlotte art, Gil has become one of that city’s most prolific painters, participating in both collective and individual shows in the Coffey & Thompson Gallery. In the Carlota Salon, the artist displayed a sampling of Charlotte’s Hispanic art, which took place in the McColl Center for Visual Art, one of the principal institutions in North Carolina. In August of 2005 the “100% Exhibition” was held, offering works of art from $100.00 up, and designed to make art accessible to everyone.

In October he completed restoration on a work by the American painter Eugene Montgomery – a mural dedicated to the history of Mecklenburg County. This work measures 47 feet long by 5 feet tall, and adorns the main room of the library at South Mecklenburg High school, one of the city’s main schools ,and may still be seen today. The mural show above depicting the history of charlotte is 70 feet long and six feel tall . in 1948, Sears and Roebuck commisioned Eugene montgomery to create 12 murals representing the history of communities where they oponed new stores. South Meck acquiered the mural in 1970. the mural was restored by Edwin Gil in summer 2005 , after Edwin Gil restored was appraised at one million dollars. In November of that same year he presented “Chicken Flu” which gave rise to his series of mermaids and “viper tongues.” In May of 2006 he presented a show called “Horizon” that was dedicated to fruits, papers and immigrants. In June, the walls of Gallery L at the Charlotte Public Library displayed his series called “Amigos,” which gathered drawings by a multitude of people from Gil’s life. In August he exhibited in a collective show called “Tendencies.” And this past September he had a private showing called “Scars.”

In addition, his paintings have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Atlanta and Boston. Gil’s work has been strongly influenced by the opus of the Colombian artist, now deceased, Eduardo Caballero, as well as the colors of Romero Brito, a Brazilian artist working in Miami. Gil has garnered all manner of praise and commentary on his paintings and the techniques he employs, as recorded in the annals of the Charlotte press.

To quote Pedro Assef, writing in the newspaper “My People” on the inauguration of the “A as in Art” program: “The week’s fundamental concept is friendship and its profound interrelation with life, an idea wonderfully illustrated in the works of Edwin Gil.” Or this: “His return to the past awakened in Gil somewhat cubist tendencies, which he plays with using colors and geometric shapes, until finally giving his paintings a latino touch.” That from Sandra Naranjo, writing in the weekly “What’s Happening?” on the paintings in the “100% Show.” And this, from Hector Manuel Castro, writing in the periodical “La Noticia” on the Chicken Flu exhibit: “The price of living is the artistic manifestation of prostitution and the longing for money. Prostitutes are represented as mermaids, who trap in their scales the money for which they’ve transformed themselves.”

Gil’s intense activity has earned him the friendship of such literary figures as the Chilean writers Isabel Allende and Marcela Serrano. The Spanish journalist Beatriz Gurdiel, founder of the cultural journal “Primerafila” said this of Gil’s career: “I dare say that the explosion experienced by this city’s latino culture is in part due to Edwin Gil, and his insistence that art is the best way of understanding other cultures.” For her part, Farell wrote, “This businessman become an artist has, from his earliest days as a painter, wanted to surprise and change the cultural panorama of Charlotte. He’s achieving this transformation by way of his genial and innovative art, and with the collaboration of other individuals, agencies and institutions of the area.”.

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