Permeable and Under Construction- Collaborative Project with the Universidad de Los Andes
Since its foundation and launching in 2011—at the restored building of the former Teatro Pupular de Bogotá-TPB—the Fundación Teatro Odeón (FTO) aims at expanding the offer of available spaces and artistic events in the city of Bogota. Beside organizing exhibitions, the foundation's goal is to complement its cultural offer with conferences, roundtables and other events. One of the core values of FTO is to promote and offer new opportunities to emerging producers and managers in the field of the visual arts. This is the reason behind the foundation's first event in 2012: a project associated with the academy that is both based on, and directed to, it. Students in the course Curatorships and Projects at the Art Department of the Universidad de los Andes, present two exhibitions that will count toward their final grade for the course.
Entitled Permeable, the first exhibition is curated by Natalia Florián, Lis Granada, Jaime Martínez, Natalia Mora, Francesca Quintero, and Laura Zarta, and includes the participation of artists María Fernández, Sofía Mira TV, Vanessa Cárdenas, Paula González-Latriglia, Carlos Garzón, and the collectives Pinza de Allís, La Cama Vacía, and Don Nadie. This curatorship began as a processual project that is constructed on-the-go. Based on a diagonal curatorial method, the artists are incorporated in the decision making process that is usually exclusive to the curatorial team. So the exhibition consolidates as the process collectively unfolds. This exhibition is comprised of works that delve into the residual remnants of memory. Through sensorial stimuli, the re-contextualization of objects, and intellectual winks, all the works were aimed at addressing the notion of permanence, and the post-experiential effects.
On the other hand, the exhibition entitled Under Construction—approached as a curatorship with well-established goals from the beginning to the end of the process—presents works that somehow delve into the processual concept. In some instances, because of the specific role as document that is part of the process of a project—sketches, outlines, studies. In others, because they approach the theme in an equational" manner: works that are completed with the addition of active elements at the time of the exhibition. And in other instances, it is more like a discursive, active, and latent approach though literalities and platitudes that, when revealed, challenged viewers to stop and think. Curated by Maria Fernanda Domínguez, Juanita Escobar, Valeria Giraldo, Camila Montalvo, and Marcela Villa, the exhibition includes works by Andrés Borda, Nicolás Buenaventura, Freddy Buitrago, William Contreras, Rafael Díaz, Hernán Marín, Alejandra García, Adriana Martínez, Juliana Molina, and Juan Martín Rico.
"Next Saturday May 26th the Fundación Teatro Odeón will be inaugurating LUCERNA, by the Ecuatorian artist Oscar Santillán. The exhibition encompasses works including video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and performance, and it will be open until the 7th of July."
The exhibitions are open to the public Tuesday to Friday, from 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturdays, from 11 am to 2 pm.
More information available at: www.espacioodeon.com
