Bullets
36 in

Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1962, Federico Uribe studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogota. In 1988, he left for New York to pursue a master of fine arts degree under the supervision of Luis Camnitzer, a pioneer of 1960s Conceptualism movement. Uribe’s passion to study art took him to Russia, Cuba, Mexico, England and finally, to Miami where he resides and work now. Federico Uribe is a conceptual artist, whose artworks not only signifies to the language of pop art, but have a formal reference to the history and tradition of classical art as well. Through the juxtaposition of everyday objects and ideas in a radical manner, his artworks are laden with surprise, irony, humour and beauty. Through his art, Uribe enables the viewer to take a more in-depth observation at the beauty that surrounds our world and to reassess them in a much different perspective. Uribe creates sculptures that are not sculpted but constructed and weaved in all kinds of different ways , curious , unpredictable, repetitive and almost compulsive. Uribe’s works follow the classical canons of figurative and abstract art but the result is absolutely whimsical yet contains enormous efficacy and communicability. He takes on a subject matter and presents it in a comical historical display of ordinary items which now formed into the definitive style of Uribe. Through the vision and talent of Uribe, these ordinary objects have gone beyond their basic functionality, assimilated and morphed into a collective singular entity defined by a new set of aesthetics that is full of colour, playfulness and yet with an innate meaning imbued by the artist. Uribe works has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and art fairs. He has also held several solo exhibitions to strong success.