Leonel Góngora

Since March 21st, Museo Rayo in Roldanillo, Valle, is presenting a selection of works by the Cauca Valley painter, draftsman, and printmaker Leonel Góngora. The exhibition, the artist's most complete ever in the country, features a total of 90 artworks and was curated by Miguel González. The show's curator defines Góngora as one of Colombia's boldest and most imaginative artists. "Leonel Góngora's oeuvre evinces his obsessions both with the female body and with sex, as well as his self-portrait habit. Anatomies that contract and tense up, rebelling against their own condition and becoming vulnerable, are the bodies and faces that Góngora depicts. There certain lasciviousness manifests in his images through lines that become aggressive, wicked, and enter into a trance", says Miguel González. Leonel Góngora experimented with various graphic techniques, collage, performance, and installations. The exhibition focuses on works dated after the second half of the 1970s, which highlight the preeminence given by the artist to eroticism, drama, sexuality, and the monstrous. After its stay at Museo Rayo, this exhibition will be open to the public at Casa del Marqués, in Cartago, starting on June 4th and through the month of August.