Esteban Mantilla

The greatest freedom is not being afraid of making mistakes, art is an act of creation and creation is an act of freedom. We communicate by appropriating ideas and languages, trying to understand what we see through what we have learned from other people's thoughts and our own curiosity.
Do you need ideas to paint? Or should painting be an instinctive act that transcends the rational process?
We created struggling with the predominant conceptual and aesthetic ideas of the moment, taking painting as an infinitely consecutive act, making a painting and then doing another and another and so on, it is like walking or breathing each step that ends is the beginning of a new one. I follow and defend the taste, it allows me to select, observe, understand what surrounds me. There is no greater sample of intelligence to develop and pursue intuition. Art is an intuitive process and an instrument of consciousness and painting a process, where the intention is more important than the result.
Curiosity is a crucial term for reasoning and the curiosity of how my next painting will be requires me to continue painting since you are only as good as your latest idea.

In my painting I had the intention of questioning creativity, originality, the...

SOLO

2017, En Materia de Fortuna, 101 Estudio, Bogota, Colombia.
2015, sin cordura no hay pintura, espacio poderoso, bucaramanga, Colombia.
2014, apto para el consumo humano, casa de santander, bogota, Colombia.
2014, animales peligroso,galeria en medio de, bucaramanga, Colombia.
2014, gracefulboy, sala de exposiciones academia de artes guerrero, bogota, Colombia.

COLECTIVAS

2017, A lo mejor hacemos las cosas mal en el lugar correcto, Espacio Poderoso, bucaramanga, Colombia.
2017, Art Chico 3 Art Fair, Bogota, Colombia.
2017, Bucaramanga OPEN - Feria De Arte (versión piloto), corporación artística y cultural TOTEM, Bucaramanga Colombia.
2017, Signos Cardinales / Ciudades Emergentes - Arte Joven", Museo de Arte Moderno de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga
2017, 101 cosas que amo, 101 estudio, Bogota, Colombia.
2017, apertura 101 estudio, Bogota, Colombia

​2016, Gran Angular, corporación artística y cultural TOTEM, Bucaramanga Colombia.
2016, Caes 2, Compacta Galeria, Bogota, Colombia
2016, Acción en Papel, espacio poderoso Bucaramanga, Colombia.
2016, JustMad 7 International Contemporary Art Fair, COAM - Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. Madrid España

​2015, III bienal de arte internacional de bucaramang...