This exhibition brings together works by sculptors from different generations where from a selection of historical and current works, it is intended to show a network of different ways of understanding and transforming matter and space. Although there is an interest in showing different moments of local sculptural production, there is no retrospective or chronological claim in relation to the development of this medium. On the contrary, an exchange of views is proposed in which each work in relation to the other is dynamized and empowered.

In the 1970s, and with a path already achived by artists such as Edgar Negret and Ramírez Villamizar, a sculptural movement based on architecture and abstraction gained strength. Ways of doing things that in turn burst into the classical and monumental idea of sculpture. The search for pure and simple forms, models, geometry, and the importance of emptiness, were some of the aesthetic guidelines at that time.

Conceptual art, the importance of the idea over the form, the found object, the symbolic charge of materials and objects, installation, and the removal of the pedestal, among others, constituted different ways of thinking about sculpture and renewed that purist gaze. This is how matter begins to be thought in relation to space and space begins to be modified by matter in these categories of sculpture and its diverse display of forms and techniques.

Between the pedestal, the walls, the floor and the corners, their encounter will make relationships and questions possible.

*The title of the exhibition comes from a text written by Eduardo Serrano in the book, ‘German Botero: espacio, memoria y materia’