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| − | "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." and well, it makes alot of sense to me, don't you think? | |
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| − | Alexander Acosta Osorio, born Colombia 1980
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| − | My name is Alexander Acosta Osorio, a Colombian by birth and a New Yorker by persuasion. For the past three years, I have been exploring the limitless offerings of New York, an experience that has been at once useful and satisfying on both a personal and a professional level. I am pursuing a Fine Arts degree at LaGuardia Community College in addition to free-lancing as a photographer and volunteering in an art workshop at the Museum of Modern Art. In these weekly workshops, I provide support to guest art educators, as a result of which I have gained a meaningful insight into the different social uses of art. In visual art, I found a meaningful vent for emotions and thoughts that being away from my country of birth brought about and a great medium through which I could recount and relive salient moments of my new life. I have been exploring the relationships we have with the objects that surround us and with the situations we find ourselves in every day. I am interested in how these relationships change the way we perceive ourselves, and consequently, the way we look at things. I started my exploration of art with photography, drawing, and collage here in New York. My photography captures different aspects of contemporary metropolitan life. That said, it is not just urban. I would like to think of it as universal in being capable of speaking to schooled and unschooled, to city- and country-dwellers alike. In my work, I have tried to encourage people to think and re-assess the obvious: what we all see but never linger upon. I have tried to tell stories public and private. I have attempted to explore knowledge both formal and informal. I want to interpret visually that tingling de ja vu sensation we get every day immerse in routine. I want to reflect the feeling of the ordinary and the unique; inhaling the aroma of freshly brewed coffee coming from the coffee-shop around the corner or hearing the same persistent don't miss our lunch special of the Italian joint's barker. In my work, that feeling of the always growing city and the melancholy of present and gladly remembered past times,is always welcomed. Today, I seek to pursue a degree in Fine Arts because I am looking to re-invent myself in a new and exciting direction, live new experiences and find new paths to follow. My goal is, broadly speaking, to become a complete individual as well as a better artist. What this means is that I seek to expand my awareness of human nature, as well as my knowledge and vision of the world. I want to branch out and diversify the media I use in order to be able to develop my own visual language through which I can communicate this reality of ours in a coherent and meaningful form. I believe that my artistic experience will be greatly enriched by changing the cultural setting in which my baptism in the arts took place.which means that i want to meet lots of interesting people and i wish totravel alot!
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| − | Culture is the basic material of my art, my laboratory, and the reason of my endeavors. Culture to me, is a live organism which in its own merit deserves to be exposed. In my work, I intend to communicate and express ideas and thoughts to generate provocative personal feelings and social awareness of what we are as individuals, and how the way we live today in society morphs constantly.
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| − | I believe that my artistic experience and craft will greatly be enriched by my life experiences,past and present and by pursuing mayor studies and traveling.I would like to continue this artistic exploration of my self ,in order to achieve satisfactory results.
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