Lina
Dorado & Luis Cantillo projects
updated:Nov2005
Lina Dorado and
Luis Cantillo are two multimedia artists working on collaboration
since
1994. Their work attempts to reveal the visual impossibility
of capturing the sense of faraway places while questioning
the notions of the familiar and the foreign.
They studied Fine Arts at the National University in Bogotá
and then at Saint Martins
College of Art in London. They currently live and work in
New York: Lina is a candidate for the
MFA in Film at Columbia University and Luis just finished
an MFA in Computer Art at the School
of Visual Arts.
Recent exhibitions
include: 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
2005, 2AM:
Two Around the Mountain (Dos Alrededor de la Montaña)
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.
2004, Carnival
Project
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.
2004, Poporo
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.