Fernando Arias
Subtitle: nada que cesa = it hasn't ceased yet
By: [curaduria : Eugenio Viola ; coordinación : German Escobar]
Contributors: Escobar, German, editor; Viola, Eugenio; Museo de Arte Moderno (Bogotá, Colombia)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Editorial MAMBO
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9789584913449
Subjects: Exhibitions; Video art; Installations (Art); Colombian Art; Art vidéo; Expositions; Art colombien
Other titles: It hasn't ceased yet; Nada que cesa
Work titles: Works
Description: The retrospective "Nada que Cesa" reviews more than 30 years of artistic production of artist Fernando Arias Gaviria (Armenia, Quindío, 1963). The artist highlights themes such as nation-building, power relations, politics, violence, armed conflict, the repressive dynamics that have determined religious and political institutions in the human being. "Arias' controversial research is completely rooted in Colombia's complex socio-political reality. He denounces the intolerable excess of political, social and cultural violence that intensifies the problems that affect the country, and by extension, that involve contemporary society." explains Eugenio Viola, curator of the exhibition. The title of the exhibition was inspired by one of the phrases of the Colombian national anthem "¡Cesó la horrible noche!" (the horrible night ceased!), but the artist expresses in his work that in truth this horrible night never ceased.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO) from April 16 to October 10, 2020.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Nada que cesa. Apuntes sobre la obra políticamente (in) correcta de Fernando Arias / Eugenio Viola; title: Siente uno pánico a las puertas del deseo / Jose Fernando Serrano Amaya; title: De Análisis a 0566 (Contador de victimas) / Santiago Ruelas; title: La encarnación del verbo / Fernando Arias y Gabriela Salgado; title: Morir cuando ya está muerto (o el uso generoso del privilegio de estar vivo) / Paco Gómez Nadal; title: Momentos decisivos / Jonathan Colin.