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HORACIO MOLINA


The intrinsic nature of the painting of Horacio Molina struggles in a constant tension, between the visible and invisible world. Basically all his work is a threshold to beyond seen from the symbolic elements of its pictorial universe. There is a spiritual presence that breaks the common perceptions, to one hides importance that alternates permanently in its creative vision. From his more young pictorial manifestation, the seal of his vision is to take the spectator to the planes to where a reality is pronounced, total and deliberate of powerful contents. Thus this painting forges and runs a curtain for the anxious glance that examines his work, to decipher beyond that, that appears firm and seductive in his composition: the language of his creation, decipherer and interpretative of new visual perceptions. His work affirms with time and matures in the imaginary qualification of its imaginary pictorial, disarticulating and penetrating in new extensions of the visual regions, to another complementary universe, fuller of lights and colors, breaking the schemes of realism and all facile form in the interpretation. This excellent faculty enriches the spectators of his work. A landscape is not a simple landscape, it is also internal planes which open to other visual games, of unexpected encounters of different nature, or pictorial contexts, but that connect in other meanings. Sharpening the glance or enriching it with greater fullness. This pictorial drives to unite realities and it complements them in its mysteries. There are no whims in his elaboration, is a continuous fluidity of elements in search of a new peak. In his work the tree and the great spring or the visitor shows the entrance to this vision.

In the last phase the painting of Horacio Molina has acquired a greater depth and a visual conceptual rigor that amazes. It has emerged a star-spatial acute presence with a futurist aesthetic of planes, designs and architectures that indicate an increased psychology of the postmodern man with their sounded flights, with the encounters of incredibly sensual spatial forms that illuminate the internal time of the observer. The contents of his last painting have already been released to reach an atemporal space, in an imaginary one that is opened like lightning of visions of incredible enigmatic constructions and of a beauty that it invites to ecstasy. This last part of his work has reached a summit from where it sees his own pictorial universe and that confirms the seal of its syncretic pictorial creation. His pictures are transported to the cosmos where sources of exquisite forms are shown in their fullness, they captivate in their imposing reserve and in their revelation. There is a generous exploration to a new language of radical ruptures with these galactic spaces that surround and feed the conscience on the infinites.

This provocative art in its designs and its unique atmospheres makes a significant difference with the cuts of present conceptions. Its thematic forges a condensation of amazing realities, of planes that are opened and multiplied erasing all linearity, arising new horizons that wake up to another sensitivity of the time, flight and memory, with new perceptive edges, of lights of moons and intangible suns, that in their eternity are quiet witnesses of the vital fecundity of the immortalized glance, from weaves of magnetic fields and energy illuminated with objects that are integrated with their oval nature in an aerial-space architecture of intriguing condensations. This painting opens subtle looks of an aesthetic that expedites and deepens the psycho-cosmic necessities of the man, which it looks to explore the beauty of the infinites, which have become an explosive urgency of their definitions. A new integrating sensitivity for today’s man. With this work they are closer. It is the promotion of the ruptures of the borders of the semantic contents towards a new frontier of seeing and interpretation, of this precisely it resides its value and its genuine contribution to an art that it wants to conquer other frontiers. An aesthetic that becomes familiar the power fields, material condensations in colors, fluidity of forms in a sensual architecture of undiscovered universes.

Horacio Molina penetrates an art of the new times and the new demands in the swift world that we live. All rigid form is surpassed. Fields and planes conjugated with amazing designs that mutate and astonish the conscience at the watching passengers of his work. All that aerodynamic of the fluids that concentrate in their findings and their escapes of incalculable internal forces, that are reorganized in a surface of the canvas to capture a glance that will remain wandering in search of greater mysteries. The work of Horacio Molina is the preference of a long creative meditation, spilled on a canvas that is opened lovingly to allow the possible entrance to lovers from beyond.

Fabio Velásquez Escritor, critico de arte.

HORACIO MOLINA
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horaciomolina@earthlink.net
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PERSONAL:

1958 Born in Colombia
1976 Drawing, University of Antioquia Colombia.
1977 Sculpture, Rozzo Academy.
1988 Etching, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York City.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS:

2008 Joseph Fischl Gallery New York NY
2004 A.S.K. Gallery Kington NY
2004 Acri.Tec Gallery - Berlin
1998 Lagrimas y Oraciones por Colombia - Hall de la Alcaldia, Medellin
1995 Artistic Manifesto - Arbo Realty Gallery
1994 Otto Mezzo Gallery - New York City
1994 Desnudos (Nudes ) - Club U.S.A. Gallery ,New York City
1993 Second Colombian Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1989-90 Solidaridad Humana Gallery, New York City
1987 Queens Borough Public Library, New York City
1986 Jacobob . K. Javits Convention Center, New York City
1985 Casa de la Cultura Miguel Uribe Restrepo, Medellin Colombia
1983 Club Union Art Gallery , Medellin Colombia
1983 Pinacoteca la Capilla, Medellin Colombia
1982 Turantioquia Art Gallery, Medellin Colombia
1981 Gallery Monaco Arte y Estilo , Caracas Venezuela
1981 Estudio Tres Gallery, Caracas Venezuela
1980 Gallery Den Roc , Caracas Venezuela
1979 Gallery Taj Mahal, Barquisimeto .Venezuela
1978 Casa de la Cultura, Acarigua Venezuela
1978 Club Loyola, Medellin Colombia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008 Tompkins Square Library New York
2007 Visual Expressions, Bergen Community Collage
2005 Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Plaza
2005 FAIM. Feria de Arte Independiente en Madrid. Madrid Espana
2004 8th Annual Artistas De Loisaida Show, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center Plaza
2004 Diversisity, Licoln Hospital Gallery
2002 Mnemonic, 9/11. Berlin Kunsproject, Berlin Germany
2002 Mnemonic: A 9/11. Memorial Exhibition. Atrium Gallery of LaGuardia
Community Collage. New York
2002 Artists Alliance Inc. Open Studios 2002
2001 Inframundo Gallery, Soho New York City
2000 Artistas de Loisaida, Cork Gallery Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center Plaza
2000 C S V Cultural Center New York City
2000 Charas el Bohio, Artist Alliance New York City
1999 Four Contemporary Colombian Artists The Colombian Consulate of NYC
1999 Our Dream. Cork Gallery, Cork Gallery Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center.
1998 5 Th Annual Open Studios New York City
1997 A Project of the Artists Alliance, CSV. New York City
1996 Moscoso Gallery, Washington D .C.
1995 Realism- Surrealism - Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art.
1995 Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1995 Consulate General of Colombia, New York City
1995 Gallery Oller Campeche, New York City
1994 Latinoamerica 94 Art Gallery, Queens borough Comm. College, New York.
1994 Orozimbo; Fragment Action Of The Body - Installation, New York City
1994 Pueblo Nuevo - One Twenty-eight Gallery, New York City
1994 Rites Of Spring- Alphabet Gallery, New York City
1993 O.A.S. Organization Of American States, Washington, D.C.
1993 Gallery 13, Soho, New York City
1993 4 x 4 -Infinity Art Gallery, New York City
1993 Anthology film Archives, New York City
1992 500 Anos de Mestizaje- LATEA Gallery, New York City
1992 Realismo Magicco, Museo de Arte de Queens
1992 Contemporary Visions, New York City
1992 Jacob Javitts Federal Building, New York City
1992 Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1991 Of Time, Symbols and Sign - Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law N.Y.C.
1991 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1991 Newark City Hall, Division of Recreation, Dept. of Cultural Affairs
1991 Newark Public Library, Newark - New Jersey
1991 Hispanic Vision III - Robeson Gallery, New Jersey
1991 Alliance of Queens Artists, Queens, New York
1991 Ollantay Center for the Arts, Jackson Heights, New York
1991 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, New York
1990 Gimnasio Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1989 Other Origins - Lower East Side Print Shop, New York City
1989 Revel Gallery - New York City
1988 Gestaciones - Solidaridad Humana Gallery, New York
1986 Casa de Espana -Sala Picasso, New York City

AWARDS:

1995 Premio Valores Hispanos en Estados Unidos, Cultural Society, Miami FL
1990 Premio Aplausos, New York City
1987 First Place, Queens Borough Public Library Competition, New York City


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Colombia, Venezuela, U.S.A., Berlin