Ibagué 1968 . Is a Colombian neo-realistic artist known for his contemporary
compositions based
on classic subjects. He is a leading figure of the
Renaissance of the contemporary narrative art
Self-taught artist. Between 1990 and 1991 he studies History and Art
Appreciation in the Jorge
Tadeo Lozano University; Contemporary art
with the Art Critic Juan Carlos Conto and
attends International Art
classes at the Luis Angel Arango Library. He obtains an award in
the II
Artistic World Art-Vie in Paris (1990) and other in the XI Italy prize
for the visual
arts in Florence (1996). As well as several national
prizes.
“His paintings are complex interplays of forms in space that document
an emotional as well
as a physical process and are as disturbing as
they are convincing in their reality.”
Said art critic Carol Damian Director of The Frost Art Museum of Miami
Said art critic Carol Damian Director of The Frost Art Museum of Miami
Recently Yoshiharu Sasaki, Assistant director of the Iwaki Art Museum
de Japan, wrote: “It would
be possible to be said that the painting of
Ortiz is baroque of the contemporary time, constituted
by the
greatness, and of a powerful subject, in addition dramatic to an hidden
tone, harmonizing
with the privacy and the audacity a traditional
interpretation to the contemporary. The dandyism
to Hollywood and modus
solid classic that is reflected in her, I do not believe that it is
possible
to create it in this nation.”
His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Latin
American Art in Los
Angeles California, the Presidential Palace of
Bratislava in Slovakia, the Civic Museum of
Abano Terme in Italy, the
Museum of Antioquia in Medellín, the Museum of Modern Art of
Cuenca,
The Museum of Contemporay Art of Guayaquil Ecuador, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art of Bogota, among others.
He founded in 2003 the Museum of art of Tolima and From 2007. He is
member of the Academy
of History of the Tolima. Today Darío Ortiz
divides his time between Bogotá and New York.
