Lina Dorado and Luis Cantillo are two multimedia
artists that have collaborated for over ten years, together they have exhibited at iNIva in London, Brooklyn
Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Midlanda Konst Hall in Sweden,
Hastings Museum, England;Black & White Gallery
Williamsburg-Chelsea, andFrederico
Sève / Latin Collector in New York and others.
Lina lives and works in New York City and Luis lives and works in
Beijing and New York City.
Their
work has been shown internationally in Bogota, Colombia; Sao Paulo,
Brazil; Timra, Sweden; Weimar, Germany, London, Tokyo, Washington DC, and
New York. They are represented by the Latin Collector Gallery in New
York City.
This archive celebrates their main body of work together
from 1994-2005, as long-life friends they continue to comment and participate in each other's
endeavours and while their careers continue to be informed and
influenced by their extraordinary artistic collaboration they are currently pursuing their own individual work.
They authored two books in bilingual editions: Second Sight (ArteDos Editores)
and Drawing Only (Villegas Editores). Their book Doble Vista/Second Sight
written by Dorado and photographs by both was acquired by the Museum of Modern
Art in New York (MOMA) and the Whitney Museum for their Artists' Books
Collection.
Dorado and Cantillo's work attempts to reveal the visual
impossibility of capturing the sense of faraway places while questioning the
notions of the familiar and the foreign, with time it has delved further into issues ofbelonging, national and cultural identity, with poetic examinations of displacement and marginal travel.
They studied Fine Arts at the National University in Bogotá and then at Saint
Martins College of Art in London. Lina is a
graduate of the MFA in Film at Columbia University in the city of New York and Luis is a graduate from the MFA in
Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts.
Their work has been exhibited at the Frederico
Sève/Latincollector Gallery
in New York and in Bogota at Galeria Diners, the Museum of Contemporary Art,
the Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional and the Gold Museum. They have also
participated in numerous photography, film and art festivals in the U.S, Switzerland,
Mexico, Spain, Brazil and Colombia, having received several awards including
Best Fine Art Prize at the New Screen TV Awards (Orlando) in 2006 and 1st Prize
at the Inter-American Biennial of Video Art (Washington DC) in 2004.
Recent exhibitions include:
MoonCity Lan Club Gallery Beijing ( Luis Cantillo) August 09
2AM, Alliance Française Bogotá
(solo exhibition) 2005; Field of Depth (Curated by: Carlos Motta) Latin
Collector New York; Doble Vista, Galería
Diners (solo exhibition), Bogotá, 2004; Urbes Interiores (Curated by Jose Roca) Biblioteca Luis angel Arango; Errancias
(Curated by: Jairo Valenzuela), Centro Cultural Comfandi, Cali, 2004;Still Life
(Curated by: Ann Gallagher and José Ignacio Roca), Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, 2003; Afuera (Solo exhibition) and Solo Dibujo,
Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, 2003 ; Airborne(Curated by Eva Asp), Midlanda Konsthall, Sweden, 2002. Resume.
Publications
2004, Doble Vista /
Second Sight, This
artist-book marks the first decade of collaborative work between Lina Dorado
and Luis Cantillo. Published in collaboration with Taller Arte Dos Gráfico, Bogotá.Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art and New York Public Library.
2001,
Solo Dibujo /
Drawing Only, A book that introduces the different approaches to drawing by contemporary
Colombian established and emerging artists with international guests. Villegas
Editores, Bogotá. Other Projects
A video animation that follows a Tibetan nun and a Colombian ice-miner as they
start simultaneous journeys in a mountain landscape at two a.m. Inspired by the
true tales of the Loom-Gom-pas runner monks of Tibet and the native ice-miners
of the high Andes . First screened at the Alliance Française Bogotá as a video installation/
Premiered in the US at the Brooklyn Museum as part of Brooklyn International
Film Festival as a single channel video.
A journey in search of the authentic spirit of the Barranquilla carnival while
making a music video. A project of Lina Dorado with a group of international
female filmakers.
A video animation that explores the complex cosmology of Colombian indigenous
culture inspired by the collection of the Gold Museum in Bogotá. This is Luis
thesis animation for his MFA at SVA, Lina did the story and Antonio Arnedo the music.
Contact
Lina@telegrama.org
info@telegrama.org
Luis
Cantillo
Luis
Cantillo received his BFA with honors from Saint Martins College of
Art in London and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of the Visual Arts.
Awards and residencies include the Inter-American Biennial of Video Art in
Washington, DC, and an artist-in-residence at Cooperartes in Bogotá among
others. He has collaborated with fellow artist Lina Dorado in many
projects. Amongs their shows at Museums at the
Bilbioteca Luis Angel Arango and the Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, both
in Bogota, the Hastings Museum of Art in England, the Museum of New Art in
Detroit, His second art-book, Second
Sight, which he co-authored with Dorado was acquired by major museum
collections like MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the New York Public Library.
Cantillo's individual work explores both abstract and
narrative story telling, his work has been inspired by Colombian heterogenous
cultures (Poporo, 2AM); world environmental issues (Watertowers, Drifting &
moored); journeys of healing and self-discovery (21 Sundays) and recently about
domestic objects and life (Good lock, Sheng & Lulu). Each work has it's own
visual style, it speaks about our relationship with the world, history and yet
sometimes finds space for humor.
Beijing- based artist Luis Cantillo’s multi-disciplinary
work allows him to explore the mediums of photography, animation and drawing.In
2008, Luis was selected to participate as an artist-in-residence the Changdong
Art Studio (Seoul), after his time at the ID Studio Theatre Company in New York
as their Resident Set Designer.
His latest exhibition in Beijing China,in August 2009 is
entitled MOON CITY amongs the works is his award-winning video Poporo, a video
inspired by the collection of the Gold Museum of Bogota. The video is an
exploration of the spiritual context of these magnificent indigenous golden
artworks that were and still are very meaningful to the native people and on
the other hand they inspired the legend of El Dorado. The music was composed by
the celebrated latin-jazz composer Antonio Arnedo.
Cantillo's work has been exhibited in Bogota at Museo del Oro, Galeria Diners,
Alliance Française, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Museum of Contemporary Art
and the Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional and in New York at Frederico Ceve
Gallery. Awards and residencies include: IASK Changdong art residency, Seoul
(2008), Objectifs Singapore (2008); New Screen TV Fine Art Prize, Orlando FL
(2006); ID Studio Theater in New York (2006); Inter-American Biennial of Video
Art in Washington DC (2004); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2005) and
Cooperartes, Bogota (2003).
Cantillo’s work stems from his interest in cultures, history
and domesticity. Cantillo is the co- author Second Sight (2004), and a photography artist-book Drawing Only (Villegas Editores, 2001).
Born in Bogota,Columbia, he now lives and works in Beijing.
Lina
Dorado
Lina
Dorado is a visual artist and a
filmmaker, graduate from both the MFA (Directing) Film Program at Columbia
University in New York City and from Central Saint Martins College of Art in
London, UK with a BA Honors degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Film
and Video.
She wrote and co- directed with Luis 2AM Two Around the Mountain (2005), a dual
screen animation, premiered at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and screened the same
year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It tells parallel stories
of a Tibetan Nun in the Himalayas and a Colombian Miner in the Andes mountains,
and it won First prize at National New Visions Award for Fine Arts Short Film
(U.S). Dorado also co-wrote the award winning animated short film Poporo ( with
Luis Cantillo) that is now on permanent exhibit at the Gold Museum in Bogota´.
She has been a story consultant for films such as: Gogol Bordello Non-stop that
follows seven years in the life of the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, telling
their story from their birth as a New York City downtown Ruso-disco phenomena,
known as the Bulgarian Bar, to a non-stop world touring marathon.The story
unfolds from 2001 to 2006, following Eugene Hütz steps from underground legend to aclaimed lead of a band of international attention, a kinetic tour de force that taps into the cosmopolitan
music scene of New York City, directed by Margarita Jimeno. ( US Wide Release Date
: Sep 2009 -Cinema Village NYC) .
Abraham-Obama, directed
by Directed by Kevin Chapados, and produced by Daniel Lahoda and Ron English.A
humorous and provocative look at an unprecedented political art movement.Artist
Ron English gathers a crew of professional pranksters and hits the road on a
grass-roots campaign to make public art and promote Obama's campaign for the
Presidency alongside musicians and artists such as Shepard Fairey, Jack
Medicine, David Choe, Sam Flores, The Date Farmers, Will.I.Am, Morgan Spurlock,
DJ Z-Trip and several others.
For the past two years Dorado
has been the creative director of the IAAATA International Association for
Ancient, Asian and Tribal Artunder the guidance of her mentor: Art historian and appraiser Astrid Sanai. The IAAATA gathers a prestigious group of Asian antiquity galleries in London, Geneva, Paris and New York.
In 2008 she completed a curatorial project
with the Office of Tibet NY and the Universidad Nacional in Colombia and
organized alongside artist Maria Moran and cultural liaison officerTsewag Phuntso the first live Traditional
Mandala Sand Painting in Bogota, two Tibetan Monks from the Namgyal Monastery
came to the Javeriana University and created a mandala in a meditative
traditional performance never before seen in Colombia, the show also included
an exhibit of photographs around the lives of Tibetans inside and outside
Tibet.
In 2009 she travel to India to Document a cultural trip to the Tibetan
Comunities in Exile in Dharamsala as part of a program with the Namgyal
Monastery lead by the Tibetan monk Tenzin Thutop and the Dancer and fellow
Columbia graduate of Tibetan Studies Lindsay Gilmour. In this trip she also
filmed and photographed Tibetan settlements in the South of India. Dorado’s interest in both Buddhist philosophy and film gave her the opportunity
to be selected to direct a feature documentary about the Dalai Lama's visit to
Bogota Colombia in 2006,currently in final post-production. Dorado started Illusory
World Productions, alongside Kevin Chapados and Cecil Matthai Esquivel-Obregon,
in the summer of 2007.
DALAI LAMA COLOMBIA, Backstage is Lina Dorado's first feature
documentary,it explores
the rock-star power of a simple Tibetan monk, as the DalaiLama often likes to describe himself. Provides a privileged glimpse
behind-the-scenes to his only visit to Colombia a land of magic realism and conflict. We bear witness to his
peace activism, the everyday details of his work and the curious, odd and often
hysterically funny moments generated by the cultural
encounters between his Tibetan entourage and the Colombian people that they encounter.
Music by Bomba Estereo and contemporary Tibetan musicians.Dalai Lama Colombia, Backstage previewed in New York at the Maysles Institute in March 2009 and would be widely released in the Summer of 2010.
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