Andrés Matías Pinilla
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2022
1988
Colombia
foro.space
Andrés Matías Pinilla (b. 1988, Bogotá, Colombia) studied art with emphasis in new media and time based-arts in Los Andes university (Bogotá, Colombia). He took part of the artists programmes: artistas x artistas, 2019 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), iman, 2020-2021 (Puebla and Mexico City, Mexico) and in 2018 he was invited to the urra tigre international residency. In 2017 he received the en obra prize in Arteba Art Fair (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the fellowship for international mobility of the Colombian ministry of culture in 2015, and the artistic creation grant of the Santa Fe gallery (Bogotá, Colombia) in 2012. His work has been featured in a numerous solo and group exhibitions in many countries like: no one hears the bones sing, foro.space, 2021; animal crackers, monumento a los heroes, 2018; conceptual & paranormal, Bigsur/Lanzallamas, 2018; welcome to parime, espacio el dorado, 2016; die natur der dinge: humboldt, kommen und gehen, curated by Halim Badawi, Humboldt Forum of Berlin, 2019; 10th Mercosur Biennale, mensajes de una nueva américa, usina do gasômetro, Brazil. Since 2022 he runs caliente, caliente, an experimental project for collective productions, creations, performance practices and «tentacular thinking».
www.andresmatiaspinilla.info
no one hears the bones sing, installation view, 2021, curated by joaquín barrera
"In my work I propose a holistic vision of human knowledge in recognition of the cosmological, ethnic, sexual, racial, and philosophical plurality of our species as the greatest virtue. I insist on the imminent decolonization of language and territory as the main path towards a genuinely global, plural, and united world. My exhibition projects combine different media and invite the active participation of those who come to experience them. I continually extend an invitation to people from other disciplines to be part of my immersive works and installations, seeking in this way to blur the limits of individual creation and activating hidden powers through the symbiosis of different fields of thought, work, and production. I find in the poetic language of objects and images, possibilities to experiment, fable utopias and «tentaculate» with other people subversive ways of hacking the hegemonic systems of circulation of contemporary art."
« […] To cross the threshold of this exhibition is to enter the New World that Andrés Matías Pinilla created for us. A magical portal that is harmonious but carefully disordered so that all the pieces of this altered theatrical function are intuitively arranged and together build a space to inhabit, a shelter from the wind, a better place to play. The images that the artist proposes in the room are not closed or finished artworks. They are necessary regurgitations of a world that no longer exists and of a time that transitions and becomes a worm that gnaws at the earth. They are images mixed and unit ...
"I strive to foster exchange and dialogue between a wide range of cultural and social audiences to expand and find new ways of producing and thinking about contemporary art within diverse Latin American «identities» and contemporary diaspora. I appropriate codes from the modern Western philosophy, folk ontologies, major religions, and some Andean epistemologies to raise fictions that claim the power of the crossing. I juxtapose and confront narratives, mythologies, signs, and images configured by human groups from different geographies, contexts, and historical moments, to propose a cross and critica ...
animal crackers, «papalunero», 2018, curated by halim badawi
"I understand the artistic practice as a revolutionary way of «worlding»: a complex toolkit to think and create new paradigms that are both abstract and powerful. Those that invoke new universes of reference that manage to conquer the collective imagination with other possible futures to inhabit."
welcome to parime, installation view, 2016, curated by carlos rojas cocoma and paloma nicolás
"A road to el dorado is a large pyramid with a square base, made up of 24 floors of glass jars with paint inside. The jars at the base contain white paint, and, as the pyramid ascends, the color changes until it reaches gold. Thus, the different levels of the pyramid diagram a chromatic scale whose gradual ascending passage allegorizes the road to el dorado.
The work puts different levels of semantic productivity to play: in the imaginary of the european travelers who embarked in search of el dorado, this mythical city would be constituted by a great stepped gilded p ...
