Liliana Mendez

Liliana Mendez is a Colombian plastic artist with a career of more than 35 years and distinguished as one of the finest sculptors in the country. Her bronze sculptures evoke movement and elegance with themes related to the Performing Arts. The uniqueness of her work has been recognized nationally and in countries such as the United States, France, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama and others.

Her career began at a young age at her parent’s Bronze Sculpture Workshop. There she learned the use of different materials and casting techniques that broadened her love and passion to create art. The artist entered Guerrero Academy in Bogota, where she studied along great artists and developed her unique and innovative style. Her career began with solo exhibitions in Bogota-Colombia and currently worldwide.

Her work is known for its style, plasticity and delicacy. Liliana sculpts ballerinas, tightrope walkers and colorful circus characters. But where has all this inspiration come from to create her collections? – Her work is the result of emotions, memories, feelings, dreams, desires and other sensations that surround a character in a fantastic world where only the connection of her mind and heart can see and create something that not everyone could. Liliana’s collections are complex worlds that contain tell stories!

These are the latest six collections that Liliana has worked on:

- Ballerinas: Her greatest inspiration as from a young age she had a strong desire to become a ballerina dancer. Liliana, through art, expresses her love, passion and admiration for this movement. Described as the best representation of the being by her. The subtlety in the movements and the delicacy of each dance inspire stories, lives and dreams. Ballet is a journey around a millenary practice that, through defined figures, steps and turns transform any space into an illuminated atmosphere.

- Magic & Joy: This collection immersed in a magical context, converted into a vehicle that guides through the unreal and creates feelings manifested through shapes, faces and movements that express beauty and harmony. Liliana is inspired by the street artists in Colombia, you can find them in traffic lights aiming to entertain and bring joy to the audience. This is how the artist sees this world: "Everything around us revolves, is reborn and moves continuously, converting that transformation into inspiration”.

Her work is full of brightness, movement, color, strength and joy, whose main message is love, illusion and happiness of a magical world, where artistic expr...