Nadín Ospina is a Colombian painter and sculptor, known for his personal incorporation of the Pop culture into pre-Columbian and prehistoric elements and symbols. Some of his recurrent characters are Mickey Mouse or Bart Simpson. It is through irony and sarcasm that he makes a social self-portrait, showing us the fusions and complex cultural interactions that we have been weaving. Starting from icons of current popular culture together with Pre-Columbian Art, Ospina reveals a firm will to break with all conventionalism. Part of his work can be found in public spaces such as his pieces "The Thinker" located in the Bancolombia-Medellín smart building, "El paseonte" located in the Aurora County Botanical Garden, Denver-Colorado, USA, "Los soñadores” located in the government of Cundinamarca, Bogotá, “Príncipes” located in the Banco Unión Colombiano building in Bogotá, among others. 1 Ospina graduated from the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano. He has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions, such as the First Prize at the 34th Salon of Colombian Artists (1992) or the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997). His individual and group exhibitions include Colombialand, Instituto Cervantes, Paris, France (2007); The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2007); Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros-Latinoamérica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007); El Final del eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain (2001); Itinerancia, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Salas Caja General and Instituto de América, University of Granada and Santa Fe de Granada, Spain (2001); Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain (2002); University of Salamanca, Spain. (2002); Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art MARCO, Monterrey, México (2003); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003); Fundación Telefónica, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2004); Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2004); Centro Cultural de San Marcos.,Lima, Peru; 39ª Bienal de Venecia, Venice, Italy, (2001); 7ª Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2000; 5ª Biennial of Contemporary Art of Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France, 2000; XX International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1989).
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