Freddy Sanchez
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Biography
Oteo
Acrylic on Canvas
37” x 37”
Freddy Sanchez Caballero was born in Lorica, Colombia. Currently he teaches Plastic Arts at the National University of Colombia. Since the late 1980s he has had close to 20 solo exhibits in Colombia, Germany, Austria and Spain.
With pure acrylic, without mixing and armed with a spatula, Freddy Sánchez Caballero brings colour to the story of the most aberrant and sad marginalization in Colombia: that of the black Pacific woman in Colombia, that in her triple condition of being poor, black and a woman, has lived with and has superimposed pain... He feels that after everything, giving their own voice and form to these people, to this reality, compensates the effort to recreate...their own personal history...
Artist Statement
"While studying, I met the broken soul of Frida Kahlo, the intense yellow of Van Gogh, the farmers of Portinari and... they captured me.
I paint because painting is the only office that I know that bases its dimensional spirit in the actual dimension of the material."
Sánchez experiments with his history, with his poetry and his ghosts. You can see in his work a powerful force that evokes a mystical world between fever and jungle, between gold and forgetfulness. There with all its social load and with the relationship between man and the environment one lives intensely. In his pictorial vision Freddy speaks to us of that intensity of that cultural extension and struggle.