ExhibitionMarch 5, 2021
Marisol and Warhol Take New York, opening in Fall
“EKOBIO,” one of the winning projects of the scholarship for exhibitions in the Espacio del Aljibe and the Casemate at the Baluarte de Santa Catalina - Cartagena de Indias, Túnel del Tiempo, granted by the Ministry of Culture and the Escuela Taller Cartagena de Indias (ETCar) to two projects in 2020, will be on view from Friday, February 26, until Sunday, March 28, 2021.
The jury of the scholarship selected from 32 proposals the projects “Sitiados” by Dayro Carrasquilla (exhibition held between December 2020 and January 2021) and “EKIOBO” from the Calderón & Piñeros Collective, each one received an award of 45,000,000 Colombian pesos for the production of the work and the right to exhibit in the spaces indicated by the call (Espacio del Aljibe and the Casamata del Baluarte de Santa Catalina).
The “EKIOBO” project of the Calderón & Piñeros Collective (Elkin Calderón Guevara and Diego Piñeros García), was inspired by the work of the researcher, writer and folklorist Manuel Zapata Olivella and the Lime kilns in the region–which were part of the industrial complex colonial, fundamental for the construction of Cartagena–thought for its architectural structure, for the people and what they represent.
Calderón & Piñeros were linked with the community of Cartagena’s insular area (Bocachica and Ararca), creating bonds of friendship and camaraderie for the creation of the work, “we created staging and audiovisual narratives.” Through music, in a game of perception, in a trip back in time to the era of African ancestors, to understand how this heritage is lived today. Music as a symbol of resistance.
Elkin Calderón argues, “with EKOBIO, we seek to move away from the cult to stone, ruin, and Cartagena’s colonial heritage, to focus on a multifaceted view centered on the human being, on historical debts and on the struggles against the exclusion that still persists.”
For the production of the work, the artists spent several weeks in Bocachica, on the island of Tierrabomba, and in Ararca, on the island of Barú; with the support and participation of the community in the project. Thus, Kiara Díaz, Miguel Piñeros, Martha Castro Silva, Germán Castro Gómez, Esneider ‘Ararca’ Hernández and Elkin Barbosa participated as production assistants. The actors were Belmir Caraballo Díaz, Evenazar Blanquicett Godoy, Alexandra Castro and Seny Blanquicett. Eduardo Cote was in charge of sound, the guitar by Álvaro Cuellar and the picós El Nautica by José Hernández; Darlis Hernández's El Sammy; El May by Abelardo Guerrero; The Gleider by David Julio; El York by Jorge Villero and El Diferente by Aureliano Guerrero Villero:
https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/marisol-and-warhol-take-new-york/
The jury of the scholarship selected from 32 proposals the projects “Sitiados” by Dayro Carrasquilla (exhibition held between December 2020 and January 2021) and “EKIOBO” from the Calderón & Piñeros Collective, each one received an award of 45,000,000 Colombian pesos for the production of the work and the right to exhibit in the spaces indicated by the call (Espacio del Aljibe and the Casamata del Baluarte de Santa Catalina).
The “EKIOBO” project of the Calderón & Piñeros Collective (Elkin Calderón Guevara and Diego Piñeros García), was inspired by the work of the researcher, writer and folklorist Manuel Zapata Olivella and the Lime kilns in the region–which were part of the industrial complex colonial, fundamental for the construction of Cartagena–thought for its architectural structure, for the people and what they represent.
Calderón & Piñeros were linked with the community of Cartagena’s insular area (Bocachica and Ararca), creating bonds of friendship and camaraderie for the creation of the work, “we created staging and audiovisual narratives.” Through music, in a game of perception, in a trip back in time to the era of African ancestors, to understand how this heritage is lived today. Music as a symbol of resistance.
Elkin Calderón argues, “with EKOBIO, we seek to move away from the cult to stone, ruin, and Cartagena’s colonial heritage, to focus on a multifaceted view centered on the human being, on historical debts and on the struggles against the exclusion that still persists.”
For the production of the work, the artists spent several weeks in Bocachica, on the island of Tierrabomba, and in Ararca, on the island of Barú; with the support and participation of the community in the project. Thus, Kiara Díaz, Miguel Piñeros, Martha Castro Silva, Germán Castro Gómez, Esneider ‘Ararca’ Hernández and Elkin Barbosa participated as production assistants. The actors were Belmir Caraballo Díaz, Evenazar Blanquicett Godoy, Alexandra Castro and Seny Blanquicett. Eduardo Cote was in charge of sound, the guitar by Álvaro Cuellar and the picós El Nautica by José Hernández; Darlis Hernández's El Sammy; El May by Abelardo Guerrero; The Gleider by David Julio; El York by Jorge Villero and El Diferente by Aureliano Guerrero Villero:
https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/marisol-and-warhol-take-new-york/
