Bogotá inaugurates a new exhibition hall

No right of admission: Urban art that connects and transforms
The Colombian American Center Bogotá inaugurates a new exhibition hall in its Nice headquarters with the exhibition No right of admission.
“No right of admission is an exhibition that brings together the artists Falsis, Era, Franco de Colombia, Cucaracha Biónica, and DjLu / juegasiempre who have a long career in urban art, design, painting, graffiti and stenciling. Their works range from actions in the street to interventions in closed places, galleries, cultural, educational and independent spaces. The intention of this exhibition is that art serves as a mediator to reconcile and harmonize the processes that we experience daily in a community as pluralistic and multiethnic as our Colombian society,” explains Juan David Quintero Arbeláez, curator of the exhibition.

“The new exhibition hall at the Centro Colombo Americano Bogotá aims to promote and spread art and culture in the town of Suba, benefiting its 1.3 million inhabitants. In an area where spaces of this type are limited, this hall comes to enrich the local cultural offering. We have decided to inaugurate this space with an exhibition of urban art, a genre in which Bogotá has positioned itself as a reference not only in Colombia, but throughout Latin America. The works of graffiti artists and muralists that adorn the streets and avenues of the city, in addition to their aesthetic value, transmit political and social messages of great impact,” says Maricela Vélez, Cultural Director of the Centro Colombo Americano Bogotá.

No admission is an invitation to diverse audiences to tour a space designed to connect us with a set of artistic practices that invite us to reflect, awaken, debate, enjoy and analyze issues deeply linked to our society, such as diversity and gender, ethnic focus and peace building. These issues, closely linked to the current situation and the history of the country, have been continuously addressed by art, with the purpose of generating memory and promoting reflection on these events.
About the artists:

Falsis. It is a proposal for visual creation represented by androgynous-hermaphrodite characters that interact in dark spaces, sinister environments, not alien to reality where the visceral graphic becomes the perfect companion of composition (intervened letters, natural or artificial textures, different materials handled in different ways) with a variety of intentions and appearances. These beings play with makeup, clothing and space in a fantastic dreamlike way. In the city they are where they can show their most representative side, usually they are in pairs or in groups in streets where the variety of people can see and feel represented by their aesthetics and the intention they have. "My characters play with makeup, clothing and space in a dreamlike way in the city, showing their most representative side." Instagram: @fals1s

Era. Graffiti artist, faithful lover of spray paint and the illegal language shared in this game. She is passionate about bombing and intervening in the street without conventional aesthetics. She loves kawaii characters, especially chibi, and enjoys each painting as an exercise in relief, in order to tell a story. Likewise, she is a tattoo artist and loves exploring symbologies and designing to capture on the skin and share her knowledge through workshops and art therapy, enjoying immersing herself in writing and of course in the good music that always accompanies her inspiration.
Instagram: @eraderayo
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