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Alberto Baraya - Automaquia #1 GTA Spano. How the ancient Spaniards hunted
Technique: Acrylic and pencil on facsimile edition of Goya's Tauromaquia of 1816 (Ediciones Casariego 1965)
Artist Biography:Alberto Baraya (Colombia, 1968) is a visual artist graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Colombia and with studies at the Autonomous University (Master in Aesthetics and Art Theory) and Complutense University of Madrid (Multimedia specialist). His work is directed to the investigation and questioning of scientific knowledge and the instruments that legitimize it: expeditions and museums. Through his actions and works he generates discourses of cultural vindication and analysis of the concept of the exotic. His most extensive project, the Herbarium of Artificial Plants, is a proposal that questions the scientific paradigm, the scientific societies, and the cultural and social context. His work is represented in the collections of the Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia; Luis Ángel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia; Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, USA; The United States Information Agency, USA and the Fundación ARCO Collection, Spain.is postcolonial and, at the same time, reflects on everyday aesthetic acts.
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