“Gone, Here, the title that Luis Fernando Roldán (Colombia, 1955) has chosen for his recent paintings and sculptures exhibition summarizes, as through a ‘Nadaist-like’ lightning, the history of Western representation: there where an absent occurred -gone-, a new presence is produced by art -here. Artists and art thinkers have addressed this issue since antiquity. Two millennials ago, Plinius …
“Gone, Here, the title that Luis Fernando Roldán (Colombia, 1955) has chosen for his recent paintings and sculptures exhibition summarizes, as through a ‘Nadaist-like’ lightning, the history of Western representation: there where an absent occurred -gone-, a new presence is produced by art -here. Artists and art thinkers have addressed this issue since antiquity. Two millennials ago, Plinius recalled the anecdote about the origin of painting: the daughter of the potter Butades, seeing her lover about to leave her, traced his shadow’s profile on a wall. The story continues as the potter would …
