Perfiladuras

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The artistic practice of Luis Roldán draws nourishment from art history, literature, the street, and his experiences in the studio. These highly varied stimuli, mediated by his broad sense of space thanks to the architectural studies he pursued in the 1970s in Bogotá, make his artistic endeavor a path that points in many directions, unpredictable and unclassifiable.

During the 1980s, his inquiry into abstraction through painting laid the groundwork for a subsequent exploration of discarded materials and found objects, expanding and complicating what we know of abstract art to reveal that it is a fertile terrain for experimentation, thought, and resistance, as well as an artistic language anchored in everyday life and context.

Perfiladuras, a project that brings together a multiplicity of works in varied media and formats produced at different stages of the artist’s career, which, although apparently dissimilar, are the result of profound processes of reflection on material culture, loss, wear, and the past. Likewise, they invite us to speculate on Roldán’s thinking, making evident that abstraction today, according to Cecilia Fajardo Hill, “is proposed as an oblique way of discussing and participating in the reality in which we are represented, often as an attempt to resist prevailing repressive politics of representing the real and by proposing alternative visualities.”

Paula Bossa