Davivienda and Seguros Bolívar launch the art book in tribute to Luciano Jaramillo

This year, the art book published annually by Davivienda and Seguros Bolivar, is dedicated to Luciano Jaramillo.

This Caldense painter stood out for his expressive and emotional intensity, full of local iconography, popularly identified through the media image of the modern myths of his time.: beauty queens, cyclists, soccer players and historical heroes like Simón Bolívar. In addition, personal symbols such as dogs, pigeons, sad clowns and families watching TV.

According to the companies, until now there was no publication that fully documented the work of Luciano Jaramillo, for this reason, They considered it extremely relevant to include this name in their tribute collection to the Great Masters of Colombian Art..

This publication by the Bolívar Davivienda group has an extensive visual essay that takes a chronological tour of the three great moments of Luciano Jaramillo’s artistic production.respecting the fluid, free and recurring transit that he always had between the craft of painting and the craft of drawing.

A historical and interpretive essay by Nicolás Gómez Echeverri enriches this book and another text focused on the political and social context written by Sylvia Suárez Seguraas well as a complete and extensive chronology of his life.

Luciano Jaramillo is one of the most prominent Colombian artists of the 20th century. He began his early training as a self-taught person, in 1956, and at the age of 16held his first individual exhibition in the Gregorio Velázquez room of the National Library and was introduced by Gabriel Giraldo Jaramillo as “the youngest of the masters.”

Throughout his career, he bravely resisted the complacency of the trends of his time, both the abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s.as well as the hyperrealistic figuration of the seventies.

His great concern was man. Through the deformation of bodies and objects, he proposed reflections on the human condition.often associated with the ironies and paradoxes of national identity or social inequality, becoming a national reference for denunciation through art.