Germán Londoño (born October 12, 1961, in

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), is a Colombian

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and

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. He studied in the Libe de Zulátegui Arts Academy in Medellín, Colombia and as a Master in

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at the Scuola Internazionale d' Arte IL Bisonte,

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, Italy. Londoño's work has been exhibited in museums such as the

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, the Museum of Antioquia, the La Tertulia Museum and the Museum of Lisbon. He has also exhibited in art galleries in Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United States.

Reception

'' ArtNexus'' magazine says that Londoño uses "strategies such as humor and caricature" in his paintings to relay a narrative that "reveal the presence of a different sort of metaphysics: the farce of everyday life. In a short period of time, and from his first exhibition, Londoño has gone beyond all the premises of the transvanguardia, openly establishing his own style and shunning pre-determined formulas, to create his own universe." Hank Burchard from the ''

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'' says the subjects he paints appear to be "save-the-whales familiar" and are "colorful and compositionally cunning". Titles such as ''Tribute to Antarctica'' and ''Woman Writing in an Island'' may or may not be politically correct, but they certainly are colorful and compositionally cunning. Ana María Coronel de Rodríguez says "the whimsically expressionistic character of his powerful figurative imagery has a fashionably postmodern air, seemingly a belated development from the Italian ultravanguard of the 1980s. His work's strength derives from a rigorously exercised, highly original capacity for structuring composition, a refined sense of color, and a controlled gestural brush-stroke."

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Official website

Germán Londoño - Arts
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