Magdalena. A Vision of the River and Its Memory by Mario Vélez
In the Great Magdalena River, its sinuous turns carry the force of millennia. In the ebb and flow of its murky waters, the stories of Indigenous peoples, colonizers, fishermen, peasants, navigators, and adventurers intertwine. This winding river, which forms a valley between the Central and Eastern mountain ranges, crosses through its contradictory, fertile, and painful […]
Bodies of Light and Matter: A Glimpse into the Essence of Modern Colombian Art.
Bodies of Light and Matter: A Look at the Essence of Modern Colombian Art. Casa Zirio Gallery opens its doors to a unique experience with the exhibition “Bodies of Light and Matter: A Look at the Essence of Modern Colombian Art,” a collective show that brings together some of the greatest masters of the 20th […]
CONSTRUCTIVE GEOMETRIES: The Sculptural Language of Juan Ricardo Mejía
The work of Juan Ricardo Mejía lies at a point of convergence between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary sculpture. His practice, marked by a rigorous engagement with space, geometry, and materiality, offers a reflection on how we inhabit and perceive form in our everyday environments. Through a visual vocabulary that dialogues with Latin American geometric abstraction, […]
ONCE: A retrospective cycle on antioqueño artists from the 1970s
This collective exhibition inaugurates a cycle of revision focused on the artistic production of the Antioqueño artists of the 1970s who came together as a generational group and were later referred to as the Eleven from Antioquia, following the emblematic exhibition held in 1975 by the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá and the Museum of […]
COSMIC AND TERRITORIAL GEOMETRIES: The dialogue between Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar
The work of Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar represents two fundamental expressions within Latin American modern art, marked by the exploration and reinterpretation of form, space, and matter. Both artists, through their constant experimentation and reflective capacity on the cosmic and the earthly, invite us into a critical exercise on the structures of abstraction […]
During a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula, in Quebec, in the months following D-Day 1944, while Allied troops were liberating occupied Europe, André Breton wrote Arcane 17. Inspired by the hope for a better world, he turned to the image of the Arcanum as a central metaphor to reflect on love and love of the […]
Fire burns the earth, destructive and purifying. From this scorched ground, the ashes remain. They are the witness of what has been consumed, of the struggle, of chaos, of time. And so, they are a symbol of rebirth, of longing. Terra Veritas is not just an exhibition, but a personal journey. It emerges as a […]
Cartography of the unknown seeks to map unexplored or conceptually abstract territories, where imagination and knowledge intertwine to evoke places, ideas, or experiences not yet fully understood or discovered.
In the imbrication of the raw essence of nature and art, wood emerges as a profound means of expression, embodying both the resistance of consecrated craftsmanship and material
transformation.
