Sara Modiano
An accomplished Colombian-born artist, she demonstrated her professional acumen as a conceptual artist with an impressive forty-year career with numerous exhibitions and excellent critical reviews. Modiano established her reputation in painting, installation, sculpture, and performance art. Modiano created a body of work that is part of Colombia’s national patrimony. Sara Modiano was a pioneering figure in the conceptual art that developed in Colombia during the 1970s and 80s. The cube recurs as a shape in her work, evincing her early studies in mathematics and geometry. Ser marks Modiano’s discovery of wire mesh as a material that she would work with extensively throughout the final decade of her career. She was drawn to the material for its ability to “contour space and energy’ in a way that they become separate modules of sewn wire mesh cubes that can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Modiano’s interest in the intangible reveals itself in the pockets of space framed by the transparent mesh structure. Her work has been displayed in solo shows and group exhibitions in noteworthy galleries and museums around the world, including France, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Hungary, Australia, and the United States. She received numerous awards and prizes for …
An accomplished Colombian-born artist, she demonstrated her professional acumen as a conceptual artist with an impressive forty-year career with numerous exhibitions and excellent critical reviews. Modiano established her reputation in painting, installation, sculpture, and performance art. Modiano created a body of work that is part of Colombia’s national patrimony. Sara Modiano was a pioneering figure in the conceptual art that developed in Colombia during the 1970s and 80s. The cube recurs as a shape in her work, evincing her early studies in mathematics and geometry. Ser marks Modiano’s discovery of wire mesh as a material that she would work with extensively throughout the final decade of her career. She was drawn to the material for its ability to “contour space and energy’ in a way that they become separate modules of sewn wire mesh cubes that can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Modiano’s interest in the intangible reveals itself in the pockets of space framed by the transparent mesh structure. Her work has been displayed in solo shows and group exhibitions in noteworthy galleries and museums around the world, including France, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Hungary, Australia, and the United States. She received numerous awards and prizes for her work and represented her country of Colombia at Biennale exhibitions in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Australia. Modiano’s insights on simplicity as a fundamental factor in the essence of the human being and as a vital condition of existence are of great importance. The art world agrees that her qualities as an artist and her teachings as a person are a legacy that have much to contribute to generations to come.
Courtesy of The Art Design Project
