Alejandro Ospina: A Significant Move Towards Normality
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Overview
Alejandro Ospina uses mixed media to explore the evolution of our changing relationship with image in the digital age, creating a fusion of the traditional and the neo-technological. Freezing the digital movement we have become so attuned to into a multi-faceted palimpsest which evokes evolution and change. Ospina creates a collage of subconscious images which find their way into deep corners of our psyche, where they are disentangled and translated into the language of the conscious mind.
Ministry of Nomads presents the works of Colombian artist Alejandro Ospina in a new Virtual Gallery exhibition. This show exhibits a collection of works, spanning several years of his career. Our gallery allows his works to become participants in the digital space, in an interactive way, which builds new connections and meanings.
Ospina uses mixed media to bring the traditional medium of canvas and his New Media subjects together. In his early work he used portraits taken from the internet and transferred them to works on canvas in order to engage with the current discourse of identity and representation. The artist’s newer works utilise a fusion of all images associated with him, for example images of riot scenes from news reports which he melds into chaotic scenes of bedroom interiors and architectural spaces. His work reuses and fuses many types of imagery and becomes a commentary on social media and the colliding worlds that interact with one another in the virtual realm
Ospina has widely exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, and North and South America including at the Saatchi Gallery, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Christopher Paschall Gallery, Frameless Gallery, Peter Freeman Gallery, Christies LA, Frieze NY, the Creekside Open, ArtBo, SParte, ArtRio, ArtLima, Brussels Art Fair, Dallas Art Fair, the Royal Academy Summer Show, IMT Gallery, amongst others.
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