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Nadin Ospina (Bogota, 1960) is one of the Colombian artists with more international exposure.
His work has been exhibited at events like the Biennial of Sao Paulo, Havana, Lyon and Venice.
He won the National Salon of Artists and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in New York.
It's a pop artist whose art merges pre-Columbian forms with figures like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons.
Is present in La Mar de Músicas Colombianas the Land shows where sculpture, painting and a giant inflatable give an idea of the creativity of this great artist.
Tierras Colombianas shown in Molina de Cartagena Palace until the end of August.
Nadin Ospina's works are the result of the state of transit and exchange of ideas that characterizes our era.
Its hybrid character refers to the operations of signification that individuals of peripheral societies are products of the hegemonic culture.
It highlights the state of constant redefinition that local cultures are due to the rise of communication networks and trade around the world.
Nadin Ospina proposals refer to a concept of Latin America if it ever really existed in crisis; allude to a reality in negotiation, in which pre-Hispanic myths of a lost Arcadia merge with the glittering spectacle transnational culture .
The revisions to the figures of Colima, copulating couples in the Tumaco and the Aztec warriors, all with their Mickey Mouse ears, outline a scenario in which the subjects engaged in fields of force in which the global and local repel and attract, both must take ownership of fragments from different sources to give meaning to reality.
Ospina crossbred works are the result of a state of affairs in which the subjects included the so-called Western countries must give new meaning to transnational products to make them reconcile with their immediate reality, local reality.
Colombian artist proposals are the result of a world in which we have all become the other.
The pieces do not cease to offer a paradoxical effect, Nadin Ospina as the hegemonic ends up turning into the exotic: icons of Western culture, like the characters of Walt Disney or Matt Groening, are equated to the works of anonymous artists of primitive cultures, to acquire and another character.
Ospina in the works of the coordinates that define the center and periphery become meaningless.
Ultimately, the proposals of Nadin Ospina, with all its exotic pop, parodying the attitude towards peripheral development of capitalism itself multicultural.
The globalization of the economy and the spread of trade has resulted in an apparent tolerance of diversity, a tolerance that, in reality, it is not.
Multicultural capitalism offers the facade of respect for difference, in the conclusion of the crossbreeding, the diversity of cultural practices and difference.
However, this tolerance has its limits: the otherness will be accepted and even celebrated, if not put into question the market economy, liberal democracy and ethical values of global capitalism.
While the music held mestizo, exotic food, fashion hybrid in the background, gives an increased force on the consumer society condemning the political and religious fundamentalism, such as Islam, which call into question the structures Western political and economic.
In this sense, says Slavoj Zizek: "postmodern contemporary racism is the symptom of multiculturalist late capitalism, and sheds light on the inherent contradiction of liberal-democratic ideological project. The" tolerance "liberal excuse the other folk, deprived of its substance (as the multiplicity of "ethnic foods" in a contemporary megalopolis), but claim to any "real" for his "fundamentalism", since the kernel of otherness is regulating your enjoyment: The "real one" is by definition "patriarchal", "violent", never the other ethereal wisdom and charming customs. "
In a parody, Nadin Ospina's sculptures allude to the exoticism that both praises the late capitalism: that of a domesticated otherness, far from causing fear, does cause a certain admiration.
Is a desirable exotic, stripped of its essence, and that does not question the primacy capitalism and its ideology.
It's an otherness that does not conflict, in which all, whether we are brown, black or yellow, we seem greatly to Mickey or Bart Simpson.
Nadin Ospina
Nadin Ospina is a Colombian artist of contemporary work by more than 20 years of persistent dedication has traveled many different areas of experimentation, from multimedia installations to painting and sculpture in various proceedings.
His interest in cultural processes and their problems have led him to produce a work openly critical and questioning.
His attitude backed by a resounding artistic production will stand out as a matter "of Colombia's most recognized artists of his generation.
It is a cultural cannibal.
The idea of cultural antropagia was raised by the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade in a manifesto of 1928.
Seventy-two years later, the matter is not outdated.
In theory, this is basically devour distant cultures, even outside, to make them-and treated-flesh and blood of the spirit.
Source: Mar de Músicas
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