Fernando Maldonado

Fernando Maldonado. Colombian artist, Bogotá, Colombia, born 1962. Painter, draftsman and sculptor. He studied Fine Arts at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Represented Colombia in the Hall Comparaisons Paris, France (2008), and the VI International Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (1994).

Amongst his most important exhibitions are Revelations Gallery House Gallery, Bogotá (2009); Window mythical Gallery Square House, Bogota (2008), and those in the Gallery Alonso Art, Bogota (2004), Virgilio Barco Public Library, Casa de la Cultura in Quito (2003), XII International Art Fair Binningen, Switzerland (2003), Art Gallery Balboa, Panama; Kite Gallery, Bogota (1997), Chamber of Commerce of Medellín (1996) and Highway Art Gallery, Medellin (1995).

He has participated in collective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá (2009 and 2008), Grand Palais in Paris at the Salon Comparaisons (2008 and 2007); Bogota Traveling Space Foundation (2007) Waiting Room Gallery (2003); Gallery Artlounge, Zurich (8th International Art Fair, Zurich, 2003); Gallery Emerio Dario Lunar, Maracaibo (2002), Consulate General of Colombia in Miami (2001), Museo La Tertulia, Cali (2001), Call Kunst Zürich (2001), Baires Cologne, Milan, Italy (2000); Gallery Wall (1999), VI International Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (1998-1999), Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá (1984) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá (1983), Museo de Antioquia, Young Art Hall (1982).

His paintings have appeared on five covers of International Literature Collection The Conjurados and illustrated six reprints of the journal Common Presence. His work has received comments from Gonzalo Márquez Cristo, Jotamario Arbelaez, Mauricio Contreras, Amparo Osorio, José Chalarca, Alonso Restrepo and Maria Soledad Garcia.

The orientation of his work from the beginning was marked by the dreamlike and surreal with a stage close to fantastic art. Scepticism about the latest manifestations of modern art has been a constant in his work, derived from existentialism of his thinking and his interest in authors like Camus, Borges, Cioran, and shamanism of Carlos Castaneda and of course the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez.

References

Relexiones Santas de Fernando Maldonado/ La virgen del pollo frito. Ángel Beccassino y Fernando Maldonado, (2003 y 2013).

Revista Común Presencia No 15, 16, 17, 18 y 19. (Común Presencia Editores, Bogotá, 2005- 2010).
|Marea Museo de Arte Erotico (Fernando Guinard, 2011).
Con-Fabulación 100 (Común Presencia Editores. Bogotá, 2009).
La esencia del deseo, Ángel Beccassino(autor y editor, Bogotá, 2008).
Lo que se pinta, Francisco Gil Tovar (Editorial Intergráficas. Bogotá, 2007).
Revista El Búho, Antonio Correa, (Quito- Ecuador 2007).
Maldonado, Gonzalo Márquez Cristo, Amparo Osorio, Fernando Guinard, Jotamario Arbeláez, María Soledad García (Editorial Intergráficas, Bogotá 2005).
El espíritu creador, Fernando Guinard (Fernando Guinard Ediciones, Bogotá 2003).
La virgen del pollo frito. Ángel Beccassino y Fernando Maldonado, (Ángel Beccassino Editor, Bogotá 2003).
Cien años de plástica en Colombia, Fernando Guinard (Editorial Legis, Bogotá 2000).
Revista Cromos, Al desnudo. Clara María Mejía, (Bogotá, Febrero 28 de 2000).
Revista Agenda Cultural, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Bogotá 2000).

Fernando Maldonado

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