ExhibitionApril 3, 2023
El Museo de la Universidad de Navarra presents Leo Matiz. Colombian Imaginary
The exhibition, curated by Enric Mira with the collaboration of the Fundación Leo Matiz, based in Mexico, brings together 123 photographs, signed by the artist, and printed by himself, and two showcases with books and documents.
Leo Matiz (Colombia 1917-1998), the photographer who always maintained his vocation as an artist, traveled to Mexico, where he achieved great fame, and later returned to his native country and Venezuela.
The exhibition is divided into four series. On the one hand, Los trabajos y los días brings together photographs that reflect the living conditions in the Colombian region of Magdalena and their daily struggle for survival. The series La cadencia del tiempo shows people watching time go by, not as passive or indolent beings but as expectant ones: they are waiting or passing through. Territorio e imaginario colectivo vindicates an intimate relationship between space and memory, presenting territory as both a geographical and mental space. Finally, Antropológica is an approach to Colombia's racial diversity, the associated cultural stereotypes, and the material hardships surrounding it.
"They are not watertight compartments; rather, the pieces could be interchangeable to a certain extent. But they seek to offer a new reading of Leo Matiz's work by attending to criteria such as the race of the people represented, the trades they perform, the territory in which they are born, work, and move, or their way of being in that place, how they live time, music, play or transit," the curator clarifies.
For more information, visit: https://museo.unav.edu/
Leo Matiz (Colombia 1917-1998), the photographer who always maintained his vocation as an artist, traveled to Mexico, where he achieved great fame, and later returned to his native country and Venezuela.
The exhibition is divided into four series. On the one hand, Los trabajos y los días brings together photographs that reflect the living conditions in the Colombian region of Magdalena and their daily struggle for survival. The series La cadencia del tiempo shows people watching time go by, not as passive or indolent beings but as expectant ones: they are waiting or passing through. Territorio e imaginario colectivo vindicates an intimate relationship between space and memory, presenting territory as both a geographical and mental space. Finally, Antropológica is an approach to Colombia's racial diversity, the associated cultural stereotypes, and the material hardships surrounding it.
"They are not watertight compartments; rather, the pieces could be interchangeable to a certain extent. But they seek to offer a new reading of Leo Matiz's work by attending to criteria such as the race of the people represented, the trades they perform, the territory in which they are born, work, and move, or their way of being in that place, how they live time, music, play or transit," the curator clarifies.
For more information, visit: https://museo.unav.edu/
