RAFAEL GOMEZBARROS
Bogotá, where he lives and works.
He studied Fine Arts at The Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. The projects developed by Gomezbarros reveal particularly concerned in some way to the political situation in Colombia, while questioning the reality that containment between the individual and the social, desire and reality, identity and anonymity.
His works and sculptural interventions as HOUSE TAKEN, WE ARE 井 refers to violence as an agent and system universally, coerced into the social fabric, in RATTLES and URNS, works that are strongly associated with the nature of the mind, the fragility of life and resistance to death, his interest in ritual and repetitive, leads him to have a production.
EDUCATION
2000
Fine Arts, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Returning to the Seed (Regresando a la Semilla) / Faenza, Teatro de la Paz, Bogotá - Colombia.
Fences do not Build on their Own (Las Cercas no se Construyen Solas) / Galería La Cometa. Bogotá - Colombia
2016
Temples and Templars (Templos y Templarios) / Plecto Gallery. Medellín - Colombia
2015
I Mistrust of stable things (Desconfio de las cosas estables) / L.A. Gallery Bogotá - Colombia
I Mistrust of stable things (Desconfio de las cosas estables), Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, Santa Marta - Colombia
Aliento Vital, Rainhart Gallery, Bruselas - Bélgica
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Lowry Centre, Manchester – UK
2012
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Trienal del Caribe / Contemporary Art Museum (Museo de Arte contemporáneo), Santo Domingo - R. Dominicana
2011
The Speciality of the House (La Especialidad de la Casa), La Cometa Gallery, Bogotá - Colombia
2009
House Taken (Casa Tomada) , Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá - Colombia
2008
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Museo de la Aduana, Barranquilla - Colombia
House Taken (Casa Tomada) , Bolivariano Arte Contemporáneo Museum, Santa Marta - Colombia
Péndulos, Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué - Colombia
2007
In- Sane (De- Mentes), Durban Segnini Gallery, Caracas - Venezuela
2004
Rattles (Sonajeros), Alonso Garces Gallery, Bogotá - Colombia
2003
Rattles (Sonajeros), Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo Museum, Santa Marta - Colombia
2002
Urns (Urnas), La Cometa Gallery, Bogotá - Colombia
2000
Urns (Urnas), Antioquia University Museum, Medellín - Colombia
1999
Even the soil is half-breed (Hasta La Tierra Es Mestiza), Palacio de la Cultura, Medellín – Colombia
SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS
2016
House Taken (Casa Tomada), / Wanås Konst - Skåne, Suecia.
2015
Carnaval; Se armó el Paraco, Batalla de Flores/Carnaval Bquilla, Barranquilla - Colombia
2014
Dead Alive (Muerto en vida), Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Mar del Plata - Argentina
Dead Alive (Muerto en vida) , Simposio Internacional de Arte y Naturaleza
2013
We are 井 (Somos 井), Nueve Ochenta Gallery, Bogotá - Colombia
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Bienal Cuvee / Centro OK , Linz- Austria
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Bienal de La Habana, La Habana – Cuba
2010
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Congreso de la República, Bogotá - Colombia
Alonso Garcés Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2008
Edificio De La Aduana, Barranquilla - Colombia
Altar De La Patria, Bolivariano Museum, Santa Marta - Colombia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
CONTRA (NATURA) Exhibition / Grey Cube Projects. Museo de arte de Pereira - Pereira, Colombia
House Taken, THE DICTIONARY OF EVIL / Gangwon Internacional Biennale. Gangwon, Province Pyeongchang, South Korea
2017
House Taken (Casa Tomada), NATURALIA Exhibition / Paul Kasmin Gallery and Sotheby's - NY, USA 2017
2016
House Taken (Casa Tomada), / FEMSA Collection, Monterrey - México
House Taken (Casa Tomada), We are Human (Somos Humanos) / KunstenFestival Watou - Watou, Belgium
ANIMAL FARM: Beastly Muses and Metaphors / Sotheby´s Gallery. London - UK
2015
Carbono 14, Vida no orgánica / Permanente Gallery , Bogotá - Colombia
The Speciality of the House (La Especialidad de la Casa), Historias Particulares / Plecto Gallery , Medellín - Colombia
We are Human (Somos Humanos), Reconstruir / Regenerar - La Cometa Gallery , Bogotá - Colombia
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Colombia narrada / Christie´s , NY - USA
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Pangaea II / Saatchi Gallery, London – UK
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Retos y Desafíos / FEMSA Collection, Oaxaca - México
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Dead; A celebration of mortality / Saatchi Gallery , Londres – UK
2014
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Pangaea / Saatchi Gallery, London - UK
House Taken (Casa Tomada), Diálogos Contemporáneos / FEMSA Collection, Monterrey – México
2013
Deaf Dialogues (Diálogo de Sordos), 43º Salón Nacional de Artistas, Medellín - Colombia
2011
Urns (Urnas), Base Paint; The Action / Ideobox Gallery , Miami - USA
Rattles (Sonajeros), Mito y Realidad / Fundación Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Marta - Colombia
Urns (Urnas), Lo Pintado y Lo Ya Hecho / La Cometa Gallery , Bogotá - Colombia
Carbono 14, BPMP 14Naturaleza vs. Naturaleza / Aldo de Sousa Gallery , Bs Aires - Argentina
Memories (+Memorias), Casa Lamm Center, México City - México
2008
Memories (+ Memorias), Novilunio-Interlunio, Cartagena - Colombia
2006
Carbono 14, La Cometa Gallery , Bogotá - Colombia
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Summus Magazine. Edic. # 20
2006 Arte Al Dia Magazine # 111. El viaje del Albergue. By Ricardo Pau-llosa.
2000 El Arte Del Caribe Colombiano Book. Álvaro Medina. Secretaria de Educación y Cultura Departamental
COLLECTIONS
BOLIVARIANO MUSEUM, Quinta De San Pedro Alejandrino. Santa Marta Colombia.
ART MODERN MUSEUM (MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO), Antioquia University. Medellín, Colombia.
P. DE LA CULTURA RAFAEL URIBE- URIBE. Medellín, Colombia.
FENALCO COLLECTION. Bogotá, Colombia.
INTERNATIONAL KIDS FUND, Jackson Memorial Foundation. Miami, USA
AWARDS
2015 Residencia Centro Wå nas Konst, Skåne - Suecia
2013 Residencia OK Oenes Kulturhaus/Center for Contemporary Art im OÖ Kulturquartier Linz- Austria
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Links Austria
Residencia Ushuaia, Ushuaia- Argentina 2013
2000 Salón del Dibujo, Antioquia Museum University, Medellín – Colombia
CONTACT
+ 57 (1) 811 32 19
+ 57 (1) 310 224 91 30