Ivan Rickenmann

Born in Bogot-Colombia in 1965. College teacher in painting and drawing

My work turns around the old fashioned perception people have about painting: a simple way of representation. Painting is an entity, a being. It is a ready made...
That's why I work with banal and trivial objects, elements and situations of our quotidian. They are magnified, taken out of context. They become characters, they have presence.

Art studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1987-1991
"Electricity" Mauricio Ruiz Gallery, Bogot
"Metalic Dreams" A-Cueto Gallery, Puerto Rico 2003
"Sunday" Diners Gallery, Bogot, 2003
"Asimple Day" Diners Gallery, Bogot, 2001
"Inner Lights" Gallery @ 49, New York, 2001
"Broken Sky" Diners Gallery, Bogot, 1998

Museum of Modern Art, Bogot, 2001
"Salon de la Jeune Cration", Paris, 2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogot, 2000
"Colombian painting of the 90's" MOMA, Cartagena, Col
1998,