The Bogota International Art Fair, ARTBO 2022, is already underway in the 13,000 m2 of the Great Hall of Corferias. More than 300 artists will exhibit their contemporary and avant-garde art proposals by 51 galleries from 15 countries and curated by national and international art experts.

In addition to drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-format works, the 16th edition of ARTBO brings an academic and interactive agenda that seeks to promote discussions on contemporary art trends. The two sections in charge of this are Articularte and Foro.

ARTICULARTE This section is divided into five stations that seek to review how artistic production can inform and promote the restoration of social ties that were blurred during the pandemic. The curatorship is entitled "A Study of the Landscape" and was in charge of the LZS collective: Paulo Licona, Gabriel Zea and María Adelaida Samper. The stations Station 1: Contemplation A mediator welcomes the group and introduces the thematic axes of the section. This is the moment to explain that A Study for the Landscape is a space for the study, reflection and making of the landscape with all the variations and expansions that the public wants to contribute.

Station 2: The expanded landscape The history of landscape, its representation and how this history is intimately intertwined with the way we relate to our environment will be partially addressed. Station 3: Earth Arts Explores artistic practices that attempt, through the materials they use and their ways of doing, to enter into a dialogue with the environment and create a reflection on how we engage with our surroundings.

Station 4: The Body Participants will be invited to learn about and reflect on how we physically interact with the world. We will seek to explore the way in which the smiling body is a means to exercise a multi-species empathy based on the understanding of the material communication between particles.

Station 5: The situated landscape Visitors accompanied by a mediator will be taken to one of the components of the fair (Artecámara, Referentes or Sitio). Each mediator will prepare a tour through one of these sections, creating a mini-guided tour that will allow to trace different notions of landscape that are present in the fair. The curators Paulo Licona The work of this artist is especially interested in educational processes, punishment, misbehavior, and confronts the viewer through a humorous tone that borders on irony and mockery. Among his most recent works is the participation in several national and international group exhibitions, and solo exhibitions such as De los misterios y los gemelos (SGR Galería, 2021), Esto está muy flojo (Galería Policroma, 2021), Devolviendo lo obligado (SGR Galería, 2018), among others. Gabriel Zea Plastic artist. His research critically explores the conditions of artistic and productive work today, from the realization of works that explore the materials and processes of different productive and economic systems, both material and immaterial. Among his recent exhibitions are: Monumento al tornillo desconocido in the framework of the X Premio Luis Caballero; 268 pieces of wood 1178 staples in the independent space Más Allá; the IV Biennial Prize of the Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, of which he was the winner, among other collective and individual exhibitions. María Adelaida Samper Master in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and graduate of the Master in Criticism, Curatorship and Cybermedia from the High School of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. Samper develops her curatorial practices and thinking from the methods of research through art media; understanding artistic practices and their specificities of making and elaboration of artifacts, as forms of knowledge production. She currently works as a permanent curator at SGR Galería.

FORUM In this edition, the Forum section has been organized in collaboration with the LUMA Arles Foundation and uses the complex trajectory of Gótico Tropical as a starting point, through the lens of Provence's own dark mythologies. This Forum will take the form of a series of individual talks on specific themes, ranging from visual arts and performance to cinema, architecture and literature. The Forum will feature the participation of art personalities such as Diana Campbell Betancourt, North American curator; Pablo León de la Barra, general curator of Latin America at the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York; Ericka Flórez, psychologist and historian of modern and contemporary art; Krist Gruijthuijsen, curator and art critic; among others. The curatorship was led by Simon Castets, director of Strategic Initiatives at LUMA Arles (France) and Executive Chairman of the Swiss Institute in New York, of which he was Director from 2013 to 2021.

Program Sunday, October 30 2:30 p.m. Interview with Karen Lamassonne about Pura Sangre (1982) Guests: Krist Gruijthuijsen and Karen Lamassonne Description: In an interview with Krist Gruijthuijsen, Karen Lamsassonne discusses her role in the making of the film Pura sangre (1982), for which she was art director, assistant editor and creator of the storyboard. *Talk in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

3:00 p.m. I Put a Spell on Space: Myths and Economics of Hot Weather Guest: Ericka Flórez Description: Ericka Flórez analyzes the relationship between the representation of terror in tropical gothic films -produced by Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo in the 1970s and 1980s in Cali, Colombia- and the persistence of pre-modern beliefs and cosmogonies in the local popular imaginary. 3:30 p. m. Staying alive. Artistic practices and survival strategies in Medellín Guest: Emiliano Valdés Description: It is well known that, for a variety of reasons, staying safe and sound was - and to some extent still is - a challenge in Colombia's mountain capital. From the work of Jorge Zapata to punk culture, Emiliano Valdés talks about El pulso de una ciudad, an exhibition that will open at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín - MAMM on November 30, 2022, and explores a selection of safety mechanisms used by both artists and crowds.

4:30 p. m. Artecámara Conversations Guest: Alejandro Martín 5:45 p.m. Accenture | Five insights from the metaverse Guest: Gustavo Marioni, Senior Creative Director Manager at Accenture 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 Students ticket COP 15.000 Notes for editors ● ARTBO, a 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 September 19 to 22, 2019 at the Great Hall of Corferias. ● 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. About the CCB

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