GONZALO FUENMAYOR
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Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Collapse, 2022, Charcoal on paper, 76.2 x 57.1 cm.
Installation view. Revival I - XVIIIe siècle, 2023, Gowen, Geneva. Courtesy of Gowen © Annik Wetter
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ABOUT
Collapse by Gonzalo Fuenmayor features an apocalyptic scene: a giant chandelier seems to be falling from the sky into a lush tropical setting. The spectator is witness to two very distinct worlds colliding in a dramatic fashion: a giant chandelier as an alien mother ship losing control, and a banana plantation turned abruptly into a crash site. The viewer is left to make sense of the debris, unveiling intricate relationships between these two disparate universes.
BIOGRAPHY
Gonzalo Fuenmayor (b. 1977, Barranquilla, Colombia). Lives and works in Miami, Florida. He received an MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2004, and a BFA in fine arts and art education from School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2000, where he was awarded a full tuition scholarship from the Keith Haring Foundation. Fuenmayor has received numerous awards including a 2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for visual and media artists; Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2014; first prize at the Sixth Bidimensional Salon at Gilberto Alzate Avendano Foundation in Bogota, Colombia, 2013; and a Silas Rhodes Family Award in 2000, among others. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in USA, Latin America and Europe. Fuenmayor’s work was showcased at the Baker Museum, Naples, FL, USA, 2021; Windgate Center of Art + Design, UA Little Rock, Arkansas, 2021; the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC, USA, 2021; in The Florida Prize 2018, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando.
