A SIGNIFICANT MOVE TOWARDS NORMALITY

 

Alejandro Ospina

 

 

Sept 17

Ospina's works tackle the newly arisen problem of resolving the freedom of visual movement we experience in the digital realm into the forms and boundaries of a traditional painting.

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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  • Virtual Gallery
    • Alejandro Ospina, Moves and Checks and Slays, 2016
      Alejandro Ospina, Moves and Checks and Slays, 2016
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    • Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 33, 2017
      Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 33, 2017
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    • ALEJANDRO OSPINA Supergirl 41, 2017 200 x 250 cm

      ALEJANDRO OSPINA

      Supergirl 41, 2017

      200 x 250 cm

       
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  • “I try to work in ways that reflect continuous changes in attention at a rate and method that would have seemed absurd before the arrival of the Internet, simulating what happens in our minds when we jump from image to image accumulating and merging layers of visual information. I want the work to reflect how the Internet has mutated the way we look at sets of images or contemplate a stream of information.”

    • Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 51, 2018
      Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 51, 2018
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    • Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 66, 2018
      Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 66, 2018
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    • Alejandro Ospina, Thats funny, Bill, 2017
      Alejandro Ospina, Thats funny, Bill, 2017
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    • Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 15, 2017
      Alejandro Ospina, Supergirl 15, 2017
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  • Ospina's works must be understood as a dynamic engagement.  They are every shifitng and evolving representations which resist the desire to be places soley into one catagory.  Both in the form, and in the content which they both represent and exude. 

    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.

  • Alejandro Ospina, Frank Feliz, 2017

    Alejandro Ospina

    Frank Feliz, 2017

    "When I go into the internet or the screen I start looking through my interests.  Anytime I do this I'm flipping through a set of images  - from one image to the next to the next.  And you choose where you want to go accross these images personally, and this is the first time that that's ever happened, that we've been able to do that.  My problem is how to resolve that in a traditional painting."  

  • Further Explorations

    Additional readings and resources

     

     

    Ministry of Nomads carries a large number of Alejandro Ospina's works, spanning many years of his career, if you would like to view more of his works, you can explore them on his artist page here

     

    If you would like to explore the works of Alejandro Ospina through the Artsy platform, which includes AR experiences for each individual artwork, you can do so here

     

    This show is hosted in our virtual gallery space, if you would like to explore past exhibitions hosted in these spaces, or learn more about the galleries you can do so at the homepage for our virtual galleries here

     

    If you would like to learn more about our virtual gallery systems, how they work and our vision for their future, an article explaining all of these elements is available here