Stunning Colombian photographer Ruven Afanador brings his portraits home, showing 80 originals at Bogota’s Museum of Modern Art until October 9.
After 20 years of popularity abroad, Bucaramunga-born artist Ruven Afanador will be bringing his most recent exhibition “I’ll be your mirror, Ruven Afanador: 80 Portraits,” to the Colombian capital.
Afanador has achieved world-wide fame and admiration; his artistic portfolio includes spectacular spreads in fashion magazines for couture designers and beautiful portraits of popular celebrities such as Selma Hayek, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Antonio Banderas, Michael Jordan, and many more.
His newest gallery “I’ll be your mirror, Ruven Afanador: 80 Portraits,” features black-and-white portraits of figures like Hilary Clinton, Courtney Love, and Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The collection “is the essence, I associate it fully with the mirror and me,” he said in an interview with a news agency EFE, explaining that the collection includes portraits from his books including thematic projects “Torero” (2001), “Shadow” (2004 ) and “Thousand Kisses” (2009).
The exhibit promises a dramatic combination of ravishing photographs of the women of flamenco from Southern Spain from “Thousand Kisses,” handsome portraits of bullfighters from Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru from “Torero,” and many stylized, passionate, and intensely personal portraits of public figures and unknown models.
“This is something I have always wanted to do, to leave a legacy here in Colombia and to do so with this museum, which I love so much, seems very beautiful to me,” Afanador concluded.
His works will be displayed at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, Calle 24 #6-00, open Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-6PM and Sunday 12PM-5PM.
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