• From October 27 to 30, 2022, ARTBO | International Art Fair of Bogota, an initiative of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, returns to the Great Hall of Corferias with its traditional sections Site and Referents.

• Site will feature eight large-format works that seek to stimulate visitors' perception by transcending traditional exhibition formats.

• The Referentes section, curated by Venezuelan Gabriela Rangel, artistic director of Malba, Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (2019-2021), proposes to activate the memory of the group exhibition Ante América, curated in 1992 by Gerardo Mosquera, Carolina Ponce de León and Rachel Weiss, and organized by the Luis Ángel Arango Library of the Banco de la República.

Bogota, October 2022. Over the course of 18 years, the careful selection of galleries at ARTBO | Fair of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, and its unique working model, which integrates experimental and non-commercial sections, has led it to consolidate itself as one of the most relevant spaces in the country for cultural exchange, promotion, circulation, promotion and commercialization of the dynamics and languages of the visual arts. In this, its 16th edition, Site and Referentes, two of its commercial sections, present proposals that seek to open new markets for the participating galleries.

SITE

Distributed throughout the fair space, the works that are part of this section dialogue with the public and the ephemeral architecture of ARTBO | Fair 2022. People are invited to visually and spatially tour the works that, because of their size, challenge perception and allow for relationships with the environment, breaking the surrounding geometric monotony.

A tower that stretches with effort and slowness; words that are written in the void; organic forms in constant movement; paintings of gigantic dimensions that guard the space; drawings materialized in sculptures; cabinets with prostheses of spectral and mysterious character; marathon runners whose movement defies the tutelary character of the installations and a mangrove that seems to be taken out of its habitat. These are some of the works that make up this experience.

There will be, for example, the work Lapsus Trópicus by Brazilian Karen Aune (Casa Hoffmann), which seeks to generate a poetic speculation on the relationship between human beings, technology and nature based on the fictitious hypothesis of what would happen if a glitch -a computer error- began to transform a specific ecosystem.

Likewise, Robert Llimós presents a version of the action Corredores, created for the 1972 Pamplona Meetings. Three athletes run through the common spaces: the corridors, the entrance, the exit, the café. As in Pamplona, the white sports clothes have been painted by Llimós, with black diagonal brushstrokes, as a way of setting his canvases in motion. This work is part of the Zielinsky Gallery in Barcelona.

And Luis Caballero's La cuarta ambición (Alonso Garcés Galería) will also be in the Great Hall of Corferias. In this work, created in 1990, Caballero tried not to worry about realism, but to make a symbolic painting and a work of long breath, letting appear those abstract images that, together with the figurative, characterize this piece and in general his work.

This year, attendees will also find proposals by Ricardo Cardenas (La Cometa Gallery), Alejandro Tobon (La Balsa Arte), Leonel Castañeda (Espacio El Dorado), Carlos Rojas (Nueveochenta) and Federico Ovalles (Elvira Moreno Gallery).

REFERENTS This section explores works by artists who broke the paradigms of art history and have become benchmarks of contemporary art. A total of 32 works will be presented in this section.

Its curator, Gabriela Rangel (Venezuela), proposes to activate the memory of the group exhibition Ante América, curated in 1992 by Gerardo Mosquera, Carolina Ponce de León and Rachel Weiss, and organized by the Luis Ángel Arango Library of the Banco de la República. Rangel puts in correspondence this exhibition -as a palimpsest- together with an accumulation of works by contemporary artists of the hemisphere, leaving Bogota as the center of this story, thirty years after the commemoration of the Fifth Centennial of the discovery of America.

About Gabriela Rangel

She is an independent curator, writer and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She recently served as Artistic Director of Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2019-2021). From 2004 to 2019 she was Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator at Americas Society in New York. She also worked at the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional and Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art with artists such as Erick Meyenberg, Marta Minujín, Silvia Gruner, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gordon Matta-Clark, Arturo Herrera, Leonilson, and Alejandro Xul Solar, among others. He has also written for magazines and newspapers such as Gatopardo, Letras Libres, Revista Ñ (Clarin), Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Parkett and Art Nexus; and has edited and written for art publications. He is currently developing independent curatorial projects and the book Estrategias de autosabotaje, arte y política en Venezuela 1959-1973.

Allies

ARTBO is possible thanks to the support of official partner Banco de Bogotá; institutional partners Invest in Bogota - Procolombia and the Ministry of Culture; sponsors Accenture, Agua San Pellegrino, Amor Perfecto, Chevignon, Chivas 18, Club Colombia, Movistar, Loto del Sur, Mubi, Roche Bobois. The media partner is Canal Capital. The restaurants that will be part of the gastronomic offer will be Bandido Bistró- El enano Bar in the VIP Room, and in the rest of the Fair Andrés Carne de Res, Café Rico, Creps & Waffles, Home Burguers, Julia, Masa, Renata and Xocolat & More.

Schedules and box office October 27-29, 2022 12:00 m. - 8:00 p. m. October 30, 2022 12:00 m. - 7:00 p. m.

General public ticket COP 32.000 Banco de Bogotá customers (10 % discount) COP 28.800 Student ticket COP 15.000

Notes for editors

• ARTBO, the arts program of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, was born in 2004 as part of its commitment to the Cultural and Creative Industries, with the purpose of promoting and positioning Bogota as a place and destination for culture and business, as well as to create a commercial platform for art and a space for cultural exchange and the formation of audiences. ARTBO I Fair began with 29 participating galleries from 7 countries and 93 artists.

• The website is www.artbo.co; and on social networks it can be found through: ARTBO (Facebook); @feriaARTBO (Twitter); @feriaartbo (Instagram); and artboenlinea (Flickr).

• ARTBO I Fair will be held from October 27 to 30, 2022 at the Great Hall of Corferias (Avenida La Esperanza with Carrera 39).

• In cases where ARTBO is cited in a text or note, sustained capital letters should be used (note that ARTBO is a single word). Correct usage: ARTBO. Incorrect usage: ArtBO, ARTBo, Art-BO, etc.