I visited the Museum of Latin American Art. Tomas Ochoa’s exhibition known as Memento: An Anthropological Exhibition really caught my attention. Tomas Ochoa. Was born in Ecuador but lives and works in Columbia today. His work captures the anthropological view of the various effects on the local landscape and its inhabitants. He shows how he is interested in the symbolic change in the environment that is shown in these landscapes.
The entire exhibit consisted of sixteen large panels that depicted Columbia’s landscape, architecture, and people. They were all done in the same medium (gunpowder on canvas), being black and white, and all were very large. The particular work that I liked was a landscape and was 94 1/2 inches by 189 inches. It was on a wall all by itself with no other works near it. The piece is a polyptych which is a painting, typically an altarpiece, consisting of more than three leaves or panels joined by hinges or folds. This particular piece was cut into four vertical panels and the entire image in itself was horizontal. This piece shows a river or a stream intersecting with trees and the forest in nature. I believe the artist is trying to show how nature appears to him where he lives using an uncommon medium.
I really like this piece and how it looks like a black and white photograph. I also enjoy anytime of landscape pieces in general because that is what I like to create as well. It was very interesting to see just how much detail went into this piece. It was interesting to look at both close up and far away. Different things were seen and noticed at different depths the more I looked at it. This could almost be similar to a half toned image in printmaking with the scene composed of a bunch of tiny dots. I really enjoyed seeing this on such a large scale and it makes me want to do bigger prints.
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