Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos
Contemporary Colombian Art/Arte colombiano contemporáneo

Published by
Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich

Texts by Fernán González, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Alfredo Molano, William Ospina, interviews by Hans-Michael Herzog with the artists

ISBN 3-7757-1483-9

416 pages
ca 140 color reproductions
19.5 x 26 cm, hardcover
English/Spanish

Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos

Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos is the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Colombian art ever shown in Europe. Ten mature artists, who are widely recognized in Colombia, present a previously unknown world of images and experience that is more than worthy of international attention. With great formal and substantive rigor, these artists of a middle generation deal in various ways with their country and its troubled past and present. The breadth of personal artistic styles is reflected in the diversity of media employed by these artists: installations, videos, photographs, objects, performances, and works of audio art, all from the Daros-Latinamerica Collection.
This book offers a close-up look at the artists themselves. In addition to extensive photographic documentation of the individual work complexes, in-depth interviews conducted by Hans-Michael Herzog, director of the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, provide fascinating insights into the personal worlds of these artists. Four prominent Colombian thinkers of differing political persuasions discuss political, social, and cultural issues facing their country in enlightening and thought-provoking essays.