Tomás Ochoa – Inflamable
Inflammable alludes directly and repeatedly to the notion of landscape as a symbolic element. Although Tomás Ochoa (Ecuador, 1965) is not only a land
19 January, 2024
Gunpowder on canvas
59 x 94 1/2 in Diptych
Gunpowder on canvas
70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
Bahereque
47 1/4 in (circumference)
Gunpowder on canvas
94 1/2 x 94 1/2 in
Gunpowder and paint on canvas
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in Diptych
Gunpowder on canvas
94 1/2 x 141 3/4 in Dyptych
His work is powerful, overloaded and experimental. He works by replacing photographic grain with gunpowder grain, resulting in pictorial pieces that allude to symbologies.
Tomás Ochoa was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, in 1965, but has lived more than half of his life in other places: Mexico City, Madrid, Zurich, among other cities. He currently resides in the Colombian coffee-growing region of Eje Cafetero, a place whose history and landscapes are a magnificent inspiration for his work.
His studies are extensive: Language and Literature at the University of Cuenca, Visual Arts, Graduate Studies Division. UNAM – Mexico, Film Direction. ECAM. Madrid -Spain.
In 2003 he participated in the Venice Biennale and that was a turning point in his career. He has participated in other Biennials such as those of Cuenca, Singapore and several film festivals, as well as having solo and group exhibitions in different places around the world.
His work is innovative, in recent years he has worked in the technique of gunpowder on canvas. This is because, in the artist’s words: “By replacing the photographic grain with grains of gunpowder and throwing fire on them, I get a photograph without photography and a painting without painting. The digital era is depriving us of the tactile and roughness of paintings. I think these pieces aspire to the pictorial by their insinuating willingness to be touched. When seen from a distance or reduced to the size of a publication, they look like photographs”.
Inflammable alludes directly and repeatedly to the notion of landscape as a symbolic element. Although Tomás Ochoa (Ecuador, 1965) is not only a land
Tomás Ochoa is one of the most outstanding artists of the current visual scene in Ecuador and is the one who has been able to carve out an internatio
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