ART & DESIGN

Photos: The Bogotá art scene is on the rise


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Photographer: David Nicolas Giraldo

A small but dynamic art scene in Colombia is turning the country’s capital into a requisite pit stop on the international art circuit. Eric Banks does the studio tour.

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Photographer: David Nicolas Giraldo

Nicolás Consuegra, in his studio above the Macarena district.

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Photographer: David Nicolas Giraldo

Andrés Matías Pinilla’s installation, Os y Los Pejelagartos Crocantes, at La Otra gallery

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Carlos Hurtado, of Galería Nueveochenta

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The Bogotá skyline, as seen from La Candelaria

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Catalina Casas, of Galería Casas Riegner

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Gabriel Sierra’s Untitled (Day as a Gap in the Middle of the Night), 2011

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Leyla Cárdenas’s Ana-lysis #4, 2010

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A page from Mateo López’s Motorcycle Diaries, 2007

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Juan Fernando Herrán’s Central Isle, 2008