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I was born in 1980 in Manizales, a small city in Colombia.

My education was: Institute of Fine Arts. Medellin 1998-1999. Medellin Colombia. National University of Colombia. 2001-2007. Master of Arts Medellin Colombia. 

There are concerns, tastes or questions that live with us even before they are stated. Then an encounter illuminates them and we know something more than we are passionate about. In my case, my career begins in youth, since I began to know the painting techniques and art of masters such as Velásquez, Rembrandt, Hooper or Hammershoi. Thanks to these first encounters, I began to make my concerns and interests aware of the space, fiction and air of humanity that runs through a painting. Gradually I have been inclined to make visible in my work the form of loneliness and nostalgia that inhabits objects, spaces, and people who are at our side. Hence the figuration, the use of color and the care of forms are essential to handle the trade and be clearer with what I expose. That is why when I see my work it is common to find lonely men, rays of light against buildings that seem to be justified only by looking at each other. These images are connected to Medellin, Colombia, a city where I live, located in the Andes mountain range, which offers a particular light. My studies have given me technical tools as well as relationships with other teachers, but I am still interested in looking for those “atmospheres” that have beauty and also disturb the look and thought to invite us to remain before the painting, asking ourselves, because I am interested that My work moves who sees it. I also recognize that literature has accompanied me and served my interests. Also, the resource of photography is useful and necessary for the elaboration of my paintings and that the final effects pretend the illusion of what becomes strangely real. Writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Orhan Pamuk or Ces Nooteboom have given me references and clarities to reflect the illusion in art, to look more closely at the spaces I inhabit and understand that they are also the spaces that millions of people share. people who live in our cities more and more similar, spaces where memories and nostalgia are left and that is why the need to paint imminence of something that speaks to us without words but that is loaded with beauty and nostalgia.

For more works, my Instagram account: @ecanouribe