Juan Manuel Gaitan

How I perform my craft
Let me begin by highlighting the importance of my craft and its technique. Above all, I want my work be perceived from a purely aesthetic standpoint, where the techni- cal-aesthetical blend grows intriguing and visually alluring to the viewer. This is the source of a highly personal color range that dwells in and pervades every one of the spaces and planes that shape my work’s geometric forms. My palette adds unity and balance to the final image on the canvas and to the different pillars that underpin this very personal language–a clean, aesthetically accomplished color palette and an effective handling of a specific theory to match the technique.
My aesthetics
Based on both a style known as Hard Edge and the geometric shapes whereby I express an abstract, geometric language, statements emerge from a discourse that draws from Deconstructivism, which leads me to suggest spaces and geometric forms deconstructed down to an optical reality of the human eye. I rely on surrealism compositions to achieve architectural spaces and structures of a subconscious mind that turns into reality when captured by the viewer’s gaze. These various optical sen- sations spark off a myriad of unique, highly personal interpretati...

1983: Casa museo marques de san Jorge Bogota Colombia.

1984: Museo la Merced Cali Colombia
1985: Bibliotheca nacional Viena Austria.
1986: Galeria Thelesma Roma Italia | Galeria Saggiatore Roma Italia.

1987: Galeria Piramide Bogota Colombia.
1990: Consulado de Colombia Washington USA.
1991: escuela de bellas artes Cartagena Colombia
1993: Arcadia art gallery Toronto Canada | St Lawrence art center Toronto Canada. 1995: Fundacion Santillana Bogota Colombia.

1997: Consulado de Colombia Miami USA
1998: Alliance française Bogota Colombie.
1999: Farvan gallery Charlotte NC USA
2004: Galeria the Wall Bogota Colombia.
2006: Galeria Santo Domingo Cartagena Colombia | Museo naval del Caribe Cartage- na Colombie.
2007: Club el nogal, Bogota Colombia
2008: Zu gallery Miami USA | Consulado de Colombia Miami USA | Art studio gallery Richmond USA | Art rouge gallery Miami USA.

2009: Museo de arte contemporaneo Santa Marta Colombia | Marion Street gallery Chicago.

2010: Cero galería Bogota Colombia.
2011: Galeria Santo Domingo Cartagena Colombia.
2014; Noche de las artes the american society Bogota Colombia.

2016: Galeria la Escalera Bogota Colombia.
2017; Sotobis Gallery Brusselas Belgica | Feria de arte Prodegg...