Title: Chívas
Description: Photographer Carlos Pineda (Manizales) traveled around Colombia to photograph the colorful and skillful designs that ornate a very specific type of buses, called "chivas," used for public transportation in certain rural areas of the country. The book includes the work of some of the most well-known painters of "chivas" in Colombia. The construction of this literary work was born in the heart of the departments of Antioquia and Caldas, where Pineda began a tour of several municipalities in search of the artistic essence in the designs of the "chivas" forming a series of photographs around this exotic object, connecting its historical trajectory with the meaning and popular identity in the region. The chiveros, as the drivers are called, made the names of the painters popular. Alejandro Serna's son followed in his father's footsteps and dedicated his life to the art of decorating chivas in the Andes. Those trips took him to the workshop of, Gilberto Castañeda in Aguadas (Caldas), to the workshop of Alberto Ocampo in Supía (also in Caldas) and to the workshop of "Pingüino" in Medellín, perhaps one of the most recognized amongst them. The author was able to to identify 16 active chivas painters.
Subjects: Artistic Photography, Buses, Decoration, Pictorial works, Folk artists, History
Places: Colombia
People: Carlos Pineda
Time periods: 21st century