La línea introspectiva

Most of the works displayed by the Museum in the scripts of the long-term exhibitions and the permanent halls are paintings. For those who are not familiar with the Museum’s overall collection, this proportion could be misleading, since the total number of paintings does not exceed the drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, video recordings, action […]

Despite being tied to the observance of strict traditions and technical rigors, printmaking has not been overshadowed by other mass printing media which, without a doubt, have snatched away its informative role but have not succeeded in undermining its possibilities as a vehicle for artistic exploration nor its denunciatory quality, by epitomizing political ideas, existential

Printmaking is not the sole result of an action executed by a man on the material. Printmaking is embedded in the man himself: in his handprints, in his skinfolds, in the scars left by wounds on his body and, in a more abstract way, in the states of mind left by happy and unhappy moments

José Antonio Suárez  In 1974, José Antonio Suárez began his training process in different printmaking techniques under the guidance of Yomaira Posada. In 1977 he attended a course given by Augusto Rendón at Taller de Artes in Medellín. Between 1978 and 1984 he studied at the School of Visual Arts in Geneva (Switzerland). Upon his