Since the 1980s, Gustavo Vejarano has been developing a free and sensitive abstraction, shaped by pictorial experimentation and an intuitive relationship with matter. Trained at Atelier 17 in Paris, exhibited at the Paris Biennale , the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and the FIAC , he pursues a demanding plastic research, attentive to variations in density, surface effects and modulations of color.
Vejarano's painting develops in successive series, like so many cycles of plastic research. Fluid stains, transparencies, chromatic superpositions: each canvas composes an unstable space, sometimes crossed by plant or aquatic echoes, but always abstract. It is not a question of representing, but of formulating a moving perception, where the gaze circulates, held by densities, attracted by voids.
Born in 1952 in Bogotá, Gustavo Vejarano began his training in the 1970s in major studios on the Colombian art scene, notably that of David Manzur. He then continued his development in Paris at Atelier 17, directed by Stanley William Hayter, an emblematic figure of experimental printmaking. This formative context helped shape a visual vocabulary attentive to variations in texture, the construction of gesture, and the materiality of the medium.
Gustavo Vejarano has been exhibiting since the 1980s in Colombia, Europe and the United States. His works have been presented in numerous international institutions and are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá , the Museum of Modern Art of Paris , the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia , as well as in several foundations and private collections in Europe and Latin America.
Each painting functions as a testing ground: exploring the limits of the format, playing with the states of matter, working on the amplitude of the gesture. It does not seek to illustrate an idea, but to provoke visual effects that solicit the physical and sensory attention of the viewer.
His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO) , the MAC Bogotá , the Mérieux Foundation (France), the Museum of Gyor (Hungary), the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia (Presidential Palace), as well as in numerous private collections in Colombia and Europe.
