Word: muneraã
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...Munera??s work is the sixth exhibition displayed by Art Forum, the DRCLAS’s effort to support Latin American artists in the early stages of their careers. But Jose Luis Falconi, curator of the exhibition and Art Forum Coordinator, believes Munera??s to be the best...
...Munera??s show represents a journey through an unknown country and came as a culmination of two decades of travel throughout Colombia. Each of the five sections of the exhibit displays both a geographical region of Colombia and a different photographic approach, beginning with the Pacific region and the “studio medium shot” and ending with the Amazonian region and the “candid close-up.” This careful, if not obvious, organization highlights the diversity of Munera??s methods and subjects...
...Munera??s passion to produce a testament of his country stems from childhood. Growing up in the city of Medellín, he showed early talent as a photographer. In 1998 he won the First National Prize of Photography in Colombia, and he has garnered numerous other distinctions despite a national climate politically and economically adverse to artistic endeavor...
...viewer. In “Circus Tent,” another photograph taken in the slums of Bogota, a small, dilapidated tent that reads “Bienvenido al Circo” in faded red letters gapes open, revealing the humble iron bed frame that someone calls home. Munera??s portrait titled, “Destiny Stone” shows a bright-eyed boy peering through a hole in a boulder...
Falconi pointed out in his gallery talk on Wednesday that Munera does not erase himself from the picture. Instead, every picture presents a portrait that arises from a negotiation between photographer and subject. Because merely carrying a camera can be risky business in Colombia and Munera??s interest is in capturing people as they are, he often sets up private studios where his subjects can feel at ease...