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They speak about a simple and honest search for an abstract and lyrical image without artifice That Investigates nature as a conceptual and Technical object of study, and the creative Techniques Which i have used: Oils, Charcoals and red Chalks on canvas or paper, Are Used as a Means of Presenting the creative act Evident Going Beyond a mere representation. The oil Helps me to create an atmosphere of color and the network Chalks Charcoals and allow me to Elaborate the line and drawing, Creating the sensation of Structures in the pictorial composition I paint Directly Without Any preliminary sketches too many preconceived ideas or, as a kind of Exercise in Which Each piece is the continuation of a previous one, a pictorial process as a way of Reflecting on the format, on the painting and the drawing, on the pictorial image and the search for the lyrical and the expressive, the fortuitous and the concise in my images. It Requires Technical skill to compose the piece as a performance, a way of improvisation in Which, as in musical improvisation, and basic primary sensations Technical Elements Are Used To Propose free and spontaneous Compositions, the artist Needs to Have the skill to engage in a dialogue with the elements compose the artistic That language on my painting. Painting as a Means of expression presents questions of an artistic nature Investigate Which seek to observe and subjectively What We Propose the creation of a personal and subjective language. From the Beginning it was very important to find a way to reproduce personal and imaginative pictorial That sensations in my work, although inspired by real They Were Outside spaces or memory-through or the completion of previous studies, Were Directed by the transformation of These scenes Into new images, loaded with lyricism and Subjectivity. This led me in Towards an expressionist abstraction spaces Become Which physical sensations of outline, line and gesture. At times when to Technical Methods Are Better Than the graphic skills of the artists hand, I see painting and drawing as Equally valid Ways of artistic expression. In my creative process I present a simple and Immediate approach to pure creation, I DO NOT force my works or add to Them later. There Are no preliminary sketches, I Develop the creative too Exercise Without putting too much strain on my work Which Would Impose too much on myself, my work or the actual act of creation. In painting Eventually I Have Been Able to Appreciate the value of the spontaneous, the authentic, the rough outline and the crude matter on the canvas. Painting as a language, a game and way to express ones personal technique and concept in my case presents a way of living, an event in ones daily life, it is another way of existing, of writing, of Saying Things metaphors for day and night, for the landscape from my window, for anger, violence and passion. I try to compose pieces that link together, like in a melody moments, moments of silence or of emptiness That Are interrupted minutes or days later when i take up the easel again and begin to paint as an the Exercise, searching for What to say with my painting. At the Beginning of my artistic search the theme of the city as a textile of images, with STI threads of line and color filled my notepad, electrical cables, architectural plans, human figures and animals Appeared in a familiar landscape. And They All Became fused Into a more lyrical and personal way of representation, Into cigar elements of composition, by Means of Various techniques in the search for a personal and spontaneous way of painting. At Other moments in the process I Need to work with elements found That I Had Such as wood, wires etc, and I incorporated Them Into a two-dimensional work in an Attempt to engage in a dialogue entre mixed painting, sculpture and found objects, In Some Cases on Easels made of wood and on the walls of the exhibition site, Between the ephemeral and the installation. I Have Pursued These elements with sketches in my notebooks Trying to Incorporate images That sensations and evoke the urban landscape of the cities of the South, With their metaphors of color and imbalance. They Are full of rough images, free of pretensions of order and harmony. In Another series of works I Approaches: a pre-Colombian artistic expressions, in Which I found very interesting and creative expressionism Ways of Technical and spontaneity. Also I wanted to find a bond In These Manifestations of cultural identity Directed Towards the consolidation of a personal artistic language. This series of works is South Street, and WAS inspired by the mud statuettes and the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures of pre-Colombian art, Combining Them with references to western art, elements like Madonnas, Meninas Velasquez, Picasso and Botero. From this search it in pieces Which I tried to fuse the Latin American and western identities in the search for the Need of a personal language. The completion of a series of works on paper in small format is part of the creative moment I am in, They Are works of quick reflection Where I Have the materials work on the floor of the study (so far Basically paper) and I begin to work only with a general concept of What I Should Be Consider my painting, BUT Finding with the Necessity of composition in the lyrical abstraction of These images, Communicate Which Which to me and presents the definitive point in Which I abandon this particular piece to continue with the next one, a process in Which Becomes the unfinished work finished, in Which Creating a series as a way to work and the subject Conceive Compare The artistic work. Techniques Mainly I use two (a diptych) oil on canvas and red Chalks in the large format painting Horizon, Which Appears like a desolate landscape generated by an atmospheres of color. In it roughly drawn Appear Who anthropomorphic figures look as if They are in flight. These creatures indefinite repre the human moments of Existence, of war, the human drama of my country and the contemporary world. My work is definitely an inner landscape, the searching glance, the sketch That invite one to watch and to Be watched. It is archaic, erotic, Religious and ordinary. It is the violent and poetic rhythm of nature, of the urban, of the savage, of the ephemeral and of What is symbolic and looks inwards, as if through to veil. My work is a game and a reflection, my work is writing, painting, drawing. Alejandro Naranjo. Curriculum. Medelln, October 20, 1972. PlsticasEscuela Arts Popular Arts. Professional School of Art Today ITM. Graphic Design. National Polytechnic. Medellin. EXHIBITIONS. Mayor Hall Medelln (1996). Alternate Headquarters Museum of Antioquia (1997). Del Cerro Galera Nutibara (1998). Museum of Antioquia, Hall Of Artists Medelln City (1998). Artists Hall of Winners - Hall of Artists Medelln City - Hall of the Mayor of Medelln (1998). Toys, Arts for Play, Art Gallery Colombo Americano (2000). First sample artistic Metropolitan Technological Institute (2001). Museum of Modern Art Medelln, we also paint, shows pictorial process last semester and graduate students from different art schools in the city of Medelln. (2002). Julieta Alvarez Art Gallery, New Names Versin 2 (2003). First annual sample Colibrisur Art Project Portfolio Ltd, 8 contemporary artists. Palacio de la Cultura Rafael Uribe Uribe. (2004). V Heartist in the Market Place. Centro Colombo Americano Medelln. (2004). 9 IN THE POOL Collective Exhibition of 9 Colombian artists on the contemporary art gallery Square House, Santa Fe de Bogota. 2005. 13. Colombian participation in the exhibition Colours / One Project Within the framework of Latin America 2005 Hong Kong Festival, organized by the GRULAC (Group of Latin America Consulates) Art Colibrisur Project Ltd and Maria Isabel Parra. In Gallery SOTA (State of the Arts), Hong Kong China. October 20 to November 18, 2005. 14. Mexico and Colombia under the Christmas tree, SOTA GALLERY. Hong Kong China. December 2005. 15. Exhibition of Latin American painting and photography. Centro Cultural de la Unesco. Macau China. 2006. SOLO. Individual exhibition in La Corporacion de Teatro Hora 25, within the framework of 2 - Literature Festival's Young Metropolitan area Bore. Organized by the errata, Corporacion Cultural. 1999. Medelln. AWARDS. In the Year 1997, Third place on the seventh Meeting of the City Plastic Arts Medelln. Organized by the Secretariat of Culture of the Municipality Educaciny Medelln. Participdel Program Work Study Program of the Centro Colombo Americano (1999 to 2000). First Contest Winner in the seed capital for the creation of new micro-Mayor Medelln. Alejo orange with Project design (artistic Design Utility). 2004. Other Activities: Co-founder of Creative and Cultural Industries Ltd Colibrisur Art Project dedicated to promoting and fostering the intellectual and creative work of artists and Colombians. PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. His works are part of private collections in Medelln. Paris. Livia Aardenburg art dealer and private collections in this European city (Works on paper Pequeo format). Contacts: www.colibrisur.com info@colibrisur.com alejonaranjo@colibrisur.com