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Event that introduces relevant figures for the Colombian contemporary plastic art such as Miguel Ángel Rojas, Antonio Caro, and Nadín himself, among others.
He produces “Movimientos” (Movements): “"Repeated but independent objects to form works in which the final arrangement, the insistence and the chromatic richness collaborate to introduce us into an innocent and poetic world"writes Eduardo Serrano.
“"Juegos en el campanario" (Games at the bell tower),this series, marks a definitive path in terms of the simultaneous use of techniques and procedures (painting and sculpture) as well as the appropriation of the museum space.
In 1984 he met his wife Mirella Cabrera, with whom he lived for 30 years until her death in 2014.
1985-1987
Holds his first institutional solo exhibition: "Collages" at La Casa de la Moneda in the space New Names in Bogota.
His project is to tour Latin America and visit the archaeological sites of the area: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Costa Rica to make pieces in each of these places with local artisans.
In 1999 he exhibited this work at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá in the show:“Viaje al fondo de la tierra”(Journey to the bottom of the earth).
He wins an honorable mention." This circumstance saved my artistic career and even my life",in Nadín's words.
1982- 1984
He is selected by the curator Eduardo Serrano to participate in the VIII Salón Atenas of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá.
La exposición es la primera muestra en la Ciudad de Murcia y la introducción de las obras de la serie “La persistencia del deseo” ya exhibida en Madrid en el 2023.
También en Mayo de 2024 y con la curaduría de Carolina Parra y Nacho Ruiz se abre la muestra “La persistencia del deseo” en el magnífico espacio expositivo de la “Antigua Carcel de Murcia”
En Octubre de 2024 se abre la muestra “Portales” en la Galería El Museo de Bogotá, muestra que introduce el nuevo proyecto que involucra elementos producidos por medio de la IA y ejecutados en impresión Chromalux en aluminio e impresiones 3D.
Curated by the Argentinean Sebastián Lopez.
2010 – 2011
Invited to the event La mar de Músicas bajo con la curaduría de Nacho Ruiz en la ciudad española de of Cartagena.He participates with "Los expansionistas", two 8-meter high inflatables, representing the famous monolithic stone Moai of Easter Island, Isla de Pascualocated on the facade of the City Hall.
In 1997, he was a John SimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundationFellow in New York City.
Some of Ospina's most noted work has combinedcartoon and toy characters from contemporaryNorthAmerican and European mass entertainmentculture with LatinAmerican and Pre-Columbian artistic traditions. In the works there is a fusion of images belonging to different cultures located throughout history, in which East and West, civilization and barbarism converge".
1992 Is invited to the exhibition "De Bogotá a Caracas" at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, where he participates with the piece "Árbol de la Esperanza" from the series "Amazonía".
NADÍN OSPINA
1960
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, on May 16, 1960, son of lawyer Nadín Ospina and Lucy Valbuena. Through a series of advertisements in the press inviting unrecognized artists to send their works to a postal mailing, Nadín receives them and has them enlarged to a larger format by a hired professional painter, who is in the exhibition executing them.
A critical parody that puts into practice the great post-modern debate on the crisis of authorship and reaffirms the operation of delegation of execution already introduced by the artist in his previous works.
1998
At the Medellín City Art Festival, an event sponsored by the Museo de Antioquia, Museo de Arte Moderno, the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and the Universidad de Antioquia, exhibits a piece based on the pre-Columbian altarpieces of the Quimbaya culture transferred to a format of gigantic dimensions, 8 meters high, with the characteristic of its portability as an inflatable piece, hence its name "El Paseante" (The Wanderer).Piece that travels to the Havana Biennial, the Venice Biennial, the Museum of Ethnography in Leiden and the Museum of the Americas in Denver.
He participates in the exhibition Trasatlántico, at the Centro Atlántico de Arte in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and in "Mouse: An American Icon, an exhibition at the Alternative Museum in New York."
Double Trouble , an exhibition from Tom Patchett's collection of nearly 300 works, is exhibit at the Auditorio de Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela, with the support of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, California.
In such virtue the exhibition produces the strangeness of what is and is not at the same time, of the serious and ironic, of the real and the simulated".
En la revista mejicana POLIESTER de diciembre de 1995, dedicada al cambio en los modos de producción en el arte contemporáneo, Carolina Ponce de León escribe: "The resource of appropriation became a fundamental piece of gear in the work of Nadín Ospina".
Guest of the Salón Pirelli, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, the only event of its kind in Venezuela that exhibits the work of artists who approach contemporary languages.
En el Neuberger Museum of Art de Nueva York.
In 2013 his work was exhibited in the exhibition Cantos Cuentos Cuentos Colombianos, which opened the Casa Daros in Rio de Janeiro, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog.
He works on the series "Resplandor",inspired by Renaissance images of travels in the age of discovery, prodigies, wonders and monstrosities.
He meets and becomes friends with his teachers: Miguel Angel Rojas, German Linares, Momo del Villar and Luis Hernando Giraldo who push him towards a future of personal search against the conventionally established at that time.
1980
He is a student of Beatriz Gonzalez at the School of Guides of the Museum of Modern Art,sharing with Doris Salcedo, José Alejandro Restrepo and Carolina Ponce, among others, in a study group where art history is discussed, texts are read, research is done and anecdotes are shared.
1981
He lives here his first paradox of which his life is full: considering that he did not meet the traditional aesthetic standards, and about to finish his training, the dean of his Faculty invites him to retire for his "lack of talent" and to "devote himself to something else in life", "do your parents a favor", phrases that leave him devastated, with such good fortune that days later he is chosen by the curator Alberto Sierra for the First Arturo and Rebeca Rabinovich Salon,an event created with the support of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin, for the promotion and the diffusion of young, university and contemporary art.
Valladolid. A critique of human cruelty through gilded bronze figures. He was a part of the Sao Paulo, Brazil, Biennial (1989); the Havana Biennial (1994); the Mercosur Biennial, Portoalegre, Brazil (1999); the Lyon Biennial, France, and the Havana Biennial (2000); in the Venice Biennial and the Barro de América Biennial [American Clay Biennial] at the Museo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela (2001).
"el Gran Sueño Americano" (The Great American Dream)
Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin.
39ª Bienal de Venecia. Curated by Roice Smith. Art historian and critic Javier Gil writes: "The artificial figures, elaborated with the greatest technical precision, reveal the fissures, cracks and discolorations that time imprints on ancient objects.
September 2021 with the screening of the play "La preponderancia de lo pequeño" (The preponderance of the small).
In 2021 he begins the series "La manera de todas las cosas" (The way of all things), a poetic reflection on the relationship of humanity with the beings and elements of nature, summoning images of unusual events of the pandemic period in which the presence of animals in the uninhabited urban environments generated disturbing appearances.
Award that allows him to work for 2 years to produce the work "Los Estrategas" (The Strategists).