WORK IN WATER has its origins in the stories of his home town La Peña, in the Gualiva region, state of Cunidnamarca, Colombia. This town is located in central Colombia where his notion of water was generated, due to his grandfather and fathers efforts to protect the regions watershed.
Alvaro studied Visual Arts in the National University of Colombia, where he graduated in 1990. With SobrevacioS, 1992, a few burlap sacks smeared with yucca startch so they would sustain their weight through their own fibers he was granted a scholarship to Stockholm, Sweden and from there to other European countries. These sacks have been used to store Panela, a subproduct of the sugar industry and are still used to package other agricultural commodities. In SobrevacioS, the sacks emptiness expressed the absent body.
November 14th, 2009
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WET WATER is color a mixed technique and water. The brush strokes demarcate this colorful figures that blend into the landscape unconditionally. Brushstrokes that interact with each other and become an entity of their own by Intercalating with each other as such.
These are forms lined up like spots walking into the fresh rivers and in doing so, tramute to a movement that is two dimensional which makes the spectator enter into this new dimension of forms that get lost together in space.
A fluctuation occurs that denotes tranquility as a gift for the observation of the work itself that ponder over our own preoccupations with the different types of camouflages. That we as human begins use to blend into the landscape.
It generates a visual metamorphosis by the use of the memory of form and so we ambush ourselves every time it is observed.
Brushstrokes move, float and travel into an ambush of life itself and our own experience in reference to war and pain. They are placed in a scenery of color so that they would float abroad, they submerge, dissolve and go away.
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