Frameless Gallery
Cosmoscow 2016

ALEJANDRO OSPINA
born 1970, Bogota, Colombia
Lives and works in London

Alejandro Ospina’s most recent body of work meshes together imagery of the airstrikes in war-torn Syria, with unfinished, re-interpreted works of his favourite painter Arshile Gorky, borrowed fragments of Juan Miro and backgrounds of cityscapes and town planners drawings to create a new type of landscape.

This combination of subjects and sources produces a poetry of complex layers which mimic the digital world within an analogue setting and medium. A burst of colours, patterns and shapes, both familiar and strange, bombard the viewer all at once. Alejandro is a master of architectural perspective and colour mixing, almost providing stepping stones within the paintings to act as reference points for the viewers eye when “travelling” through the painting.

Ospina’s work will be on show in Russia for the very first time.