Meet the Artists: Session 1
Camilo Restrepo, Guillermo Garcia Cruz, and Marcelo Moscheta
Camilo, Guillermo, and Marcelo will be in residence at Fountainhead from January 8 to February 5, 2025.
Camilo Restrepo
Camilo Restrepo creates works that represent the drug violence that for decades has besieged his native Colombia. Using techniques more often associated with sculpture, he creates large-scale drawings that highlight the materiality of paper by scratching, scraping and cutting into it. He erases with a precision knife leaving scars and wounds that remain visible. His works are dense with cartoon imagery with every situation illustrating some aspect of Colombia’s narco world and the consequences to his mental and emotional faculties. While Restrepo certainly is an art world insider (he earned two degrees in Colombia as well as an MFA at CalArts), because of the obsessive nature of his work, he can easily be mistaken for an outsider artist.
Guillermo Garcia Cruz
Guillermo Garcia Cruz’s recent work consists of a series of paintings and sculptures that play with the formal legacy left by Latin American concretism, both through Lygia Clark and her paintings from the series "Planos em Superfície Modulada," as well as through the production of the Uruguayan-Argentinian MADI movement in the 1940s. According to the group of artists in the movement, painting should not be constrained by the rectangular canvas; instead, the shape of the canvas should follow the structure of the painting. Cruz’s paintings and sculptures are always on the verge of separating, of multiplying into other parts, seeking their own life by fragmenting their body-structure into the contextual space.
Cruz is a professor of Visual Arts at the IPA, Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been part of the Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, USA. In his native Uruguay, his work has been exhibited individually at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo, and internationally in exhibitions in Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Lisbon and Tianjin. Recently, his work became part of the CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA; Collection of Chicago Northwestern University, USA; Luis Bassat Collection, Barcelona; Alberto and Ginette Rebaza Collection, Lima; MACA (Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art), Uruguay; among other international private collections.
Marcelo Moscheta
Marcelo’s residency is generously sponsored by Adriana and Ricardo Malfitano.
Marcelo Moscheta is a practice-based artist with a deep conceptual reference. His research has aimed at the primary relations of men and the environment, and theb impact of human interventions raised from the acts of wandering and walking. Heterocronies, displacement, territory, landscape and memory are his main interests. Problems of scale and fictional science approaches are used to overlay cultural aspects against natural resources, reflect on singular human interventions in isolated areas, and how ecological thought is shaping architecture and the use of the land. Since 2000, Moscheta has been creating works and exhibitions arising out of journeys to remote places, where he collects elements and images from nature and transforms, reuses and/or reproduces them through drawing and photography, creating objects, installations and site-specific works.
