Fernando Maldonado. Colombian artist, Bogotá, Colombia, born 1962. Painter, draftsman and sculptor. He studied Fine Arts at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Represented Colombia in the Hall Comparaisons Paris, France, and the VI International Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador. Amongst his most important exhibitions are Revelations Gallery House Gallery, Bogotá ; Window mythical Gallery Square House, Bogota, and those in the Gallery Alonso Art, Bogota, Virgilio BarcoPublic Library, Casa de la Cultura in Quito, XII International Art Fair Binningen, Switzerland, Art GalleryBalboa, Panama; Kite Gallery, Bogota, Chamber of Commerce of Medellín and Highway Art Gallery, Medellin. He has participated in collective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá, Grand Palais in Paris at the Salon Comparaisons ; Bogota Traveling Space FoundationWaiting Room Gallery ; Gallery Artlounge, Zurich ; Gallery Emerio Dario Lunar, Maracaibo, Consulate General of Colombia in Miami, La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Call Kunst Zürich, Baires Cologne, Milan, Italy ; Gallery Wall, VI International Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá, Museo de Antioquia, Young Art Hall. His paintings have appeared on five covers of International Literature Collection The Conjurados and illustrated six reprints of the journal Common Presence. His work has received comments from Gonzalo Márquez Cristo, Jotamario Arbelaez, Mauricio Contreras, Amparo Osorio, José Chalarca, Alonso Restrepo and Maria Soledad Garcia. The orientation of his work from the beginning was marked by the dreamlike and surreal with a stage close to fantastic art. Scepticism about the latest manifestations of modern art has been a constant in his work, derived from existentialism of his thinking and his interest in authors like Camus, Borges, Cioran, and shamanism of Carlos Castaneda and of course the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez.
