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Monika Bravo URUMU_WEAVING_TIME. 2014. Four-channel projection. Film stills

Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture
Curated by José Roca

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street, NYC

Opening reception April 10 2014 6 pm - 8 pm
rsvp: rsvp@bgc.bard.edu or call 212.501.3004 (acceptances only)

On View April 11–August 10, 2014

Using the trope of the river as a conceptual device to explore the intersections in Colombian contemporary culture between art, craft, and design, Waterweavers reveals the intricate ways in which culture and nature can intertwine across disciplines. Curated by José Roca, Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern and Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, with the assistance of independent writer and editor Alejandro Martín, the exhibition presents textiles, ceramics, graphic design, furniture, video, and installations to address a concept informed by social, political, and ecological strife in Colombia: the river.

Including works by Olga de Amaral, Ceci Arango, Alberto Baraya, Monika Bravo, Alvaro Catalán de Ocón, David Consuegra, Nicolás Consuegra, Clemencia Echeverri, Juan Fernando Herrán, Jorge Lizarazo, Susana Mejía, Abel Rodríguez, María Isabel Rueda, Lucy Salamanca, Tangrama, Marcelo Villegas, and Carol Young.

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery is located in New York City at 18 West 86th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The admission fee is $7 general, $5 senior and students (valid ID); admission is free Thursday evenings after 5 p.m

Publication
The exhibition catalogue, Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers, will feature a selection of visual and textual narratives about Colombian rivers across time, including an essay by the co-curators addressing the river in contemporary Colombian visual and material culture, illustrations of works by the seventeen artists in the exhibition, and excerpts from literary and historical texts, many published for the first time in English, by such acclaimed Colombian authors as Fernanado Zalamea, Tomás Gonzalez, Héctor Abad, and Alfredo Molano. Renowned graphic designer Irma Boom will design the book. Boom’s previous work includes two BGC catalogues, Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor (2006), a title honored as “The Most Beautiful Book in the World” at the Leipzig Book Fair, and Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010 (2011), which also received numerous accolades.


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