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.
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Virtual Gallery
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Alejandro Ospina
The Temple of Bel, 2016“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.”
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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.
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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."
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Further Explorations
Additional readings and resourcesMinistry 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
