He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de los Andes and has studied drawing at the National University of Colombia. He has served as professor at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in the areas of Drafting and Design. Born in Bogotá in 1979, where he now lives, Peña has structured his work primarily around drawing.
‘How to go forward/while understanding backwards’ Galería El Garaje (The Garage Gallery) (2003); ‘When will my lucky day arrive’, Project Room of the University of the Andes. He has also participated in various group exhibitions including: ‘Short notes for a perfect world, BBVA Art Hall – New Names Bank of the Republic,’ ‘Paper Languages’, the Museum Gallery, ‘From less to less [I like more], Museum of the National University of Colombia (2004).
His proposal for MDE11 is to produce one thousand drawings from images considered important to the history of art. “It’s an appropriation, from traditional drawing, from the way in which its teaching is constructed. Photocopies are possibly the most widely used resource to study and read the history of art”, says Esteban Peña.
A line is made up of dots. All forms, both simple and complex, are composed of dots, hence his proposal is “what cannot be viewed in detail, due to its small size, but appears to us as a dot”.
‘1.000 drawings’ is a project that takes images reproduced from different eras and reinterprets them rebuilding them based on dots, “the smallest tiny form”. According to Peña, “we might say that the project consists in one thousand un-drawings of the history of art.”
Website
Esteban-pena.com
Links of interest
Galería Nueveochenta: Esteban Peña
Flickr from Esteban Peña
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