US EditionArtist of Earth and Time: Colombian artist Hugo Zapata dies at 80 | The City Paper Bogotá
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Colombian architect, sculptor, and visual artist Hugo Zapata, who made his stonework a signature, passed away at the age of 79. He was born in La Tebaida, Quindío, on September 11, 1945, and became a vital part of the art scene in Colombia, not only for his renowned work as a sculptor, but also for his influence as a visual artist. He studied at the Institute of Plastic Arts at the University of Antioquia and architecture at the National Univers…
Artist of Earth and Time: Colombian artist Hugo Zapata dies at 80 | The City Paper Bogotá
Hugo Zapata, one of Colombia’s most revered contemporary artists and a master sculptor whose black stone works transformed the country’s relationship with landscape, form, and time, has died at the age of 80 in his home in El Retiro, Antioquia. Zapata, born in 1945 in La Tebaida, Quindío, in the heart of Colombia’s coffee-growing region, was an artist whose dialogue with the earth yielded a lifelong body of work that feels at once primeval and d…
Colombian art is in mourning for the death, at 79 years old, of the plastic artist, sculptor and architect Hugo Zapata. He was born in La Tebaida, Quindío, in 1945, Zapata was a pioneer in organic abstract sculpture in Colombia and his work is recognized for the use of stones such as the lutita and the porphyry. [...] La entrada He passed away at 79 years old plastic artist Hugo Zapata aparece primero en Vivir en El Poblado.
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