Contemporary and modern Colombian painters, artworks and career of Colombian artist Diana Francia.
Resume, Biography, Exhibitions, Recognitions, and her artworks in museums and collections.
Description of her work and artist's statement
Curriculum, Biography, Exhibitions, Recognitions of Diana Francia. Her artworks in museums and collections. Description of her work and her artist statement
Diana Francia Gómez Ordóñez, a Colombian born in Cali, Valle on May 13, 1970, comes from a family of artists, therefore she began her passion and approach with art from a very young age in a self-taught way; Later with plastic arts studies, he began his career participating in more than 180 exhibitions to date in the company of important Colombian and foreign artists in Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Morocco, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia; her obtaining several recognitions for her work and her career as an artist.
Her hard work and her love for art have led her to be a cultural manager and one of the founders of "Kontemporánea Itinerant Art / Gestión KontemporArte", entities dedicated to promoting art and artists in her country. Because of her commitment to the social aspect and her charitable work, she has been recognized as "Godmother" at the Los Ángeles de Luna Foundation.
Her works are found in different collections and museums in Colombia and abroad; They have been reasons for interviews and comments on important Colombian television programs and channels such as RCN, Caracol, La Revista CMI del Canal UNO, Canal ZOOM TV. City TV, also in magazines and other printed publications, such as the Argentine magazine "Ciudad Nueva", the Mexican magazine "Perfiles de México", "El Congreso Magazine", the Mexican newspaper "El Debate de Mazatlán", among others, and on different web portals and international art catalogs. Biography of Diana Francia Gómez Ordóñez Colombian Artist
"Diana Francia, as a good expressionist with her authenticity, has continuously led the process of the German George Grosz and Otto Dix, in addition to the Colombians Ángel Loochkartt, Umberto Giangrandi, Carlos Granada ... with their stamp of sensuality and eroticism.
Like good night owls, the Expressionists advance through the depths of the night and fill their canvases and papers with worldly stars that display their mutant faces and their feminine, masculine or androgynous spirit. Felines and birds of prey, spot their victims with an accurate gaze, capture them, extract their spirits ”.
Fernando Guinard - Director Museum of American Erotic Art
"The technique that Diana Francia uses is of utmost importance for the style she proposes, by using a two-phase Dripping: A fluid one that gives expressiveness and movement to the line, in the manner of the abstract expressionists or informalists; as well as another controlled one, of a figurative nature, with which he draws the shapes and outlines of his compositions.
"Her works by her manage to captivate and attract the attention of the viewer, immersing them in the deep aspects of a mental and psychological universe, full of reflection and contemplation"
Maestro Edgar Estupiñán, Curator and Cultural Commentator
"Painting ... is entering a parallel world created by me ...
In the depths of my thoughts I love, I live, I feel, I dream and I miss, only in my mind, I am the owner and architect of that parallel, ephemeral and disturbing world, which I intend to capture in the canvases so that the viewer perceives them in an accurate way.
I want to capture, among other topics, the emotions and the states of the womans soul reflected in looks, faces, and bodies, some taken from me, others coming from my imagination or from my surroundings, and in them their different moods, sensations, feelings, doubts, and frustrations; in an expressionist figurative style with textures, paint drips and vibrant colors which allow me to give him the strength, spontaneity, and fluidity that this theme requires. This as a tribute and to document in some way the current situation of women showing through my works everything that goes beyond a naked body, as is the essence, value, sensuality, and eroticism. I wish to exhort women to love themselves regardless of religion, physicality, age or social status, to see ourselves with other eyes, that beyond the skin there is a soul that lives, dreams, longs, and feels.
My series "Body and Naked Soul", "My Parallel World", "Question of Faith", "Animals ... Beings of Light" and "Migrations ... from the Real to the Unreal"; they are portals of that parallel world, which allow me to bring what is in my mind to reality.
Diana Francia
My favorite subjects are religious, portrait, figure, landscapes, animals and abstract.
They are paintings that represent my world and my circumstances, inner or outer experiences, feelings, places, life situations that remain in my mind, beings and moments that want to capture in my memory, thoughts that they want to transmit to others. All this reflected through the techniques of artistic painting; In a figurative expressionist style, with colors and textures that express my emotions and states of the soul, To make them I usually use canvases, although some are painted on wood. I work with oil and / or acrylic paint or mixed media technique, I use any medium that allows me to highlight my paintings; Using as a technique the spatula and/or controlled dripping of paint on the support used (Art Dripping)
Through my paintings, I want to achieve more and more inner freedom and creativity, letting myself carry out the imagination or the feeling of the moment. Taking what is in my mind, incorporating it spontaneously on the canvas so that the viewer perceives it correctly.
2020. Museo de Arte Moderno De Bucaramanga MAMB Work "Memories of a happy childhood .... Raising comets" Mixed / canvas 70x40 cm
2016. HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF PEÑOL ANTIOQUIA Work "Tristeza" Mixed canvas 60X40 cm
2015. NICOLÁS HERRERA MUSEUM IN IBARRA ECUADOR Work: "Pensativa 3" Mixed on canvas 60x40 cm
2015. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF HUILA (MACH) Neiva, Huila. Work. "I Analyze You" Mixed Acrylic / Canvas 60x45 cm
2014. CONSUL GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN COLOMBIA Work. The Mixed Passion On Canvas 100x70 Cm USA
2014. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF MAZATLAN Mazatlán-México, Work "A la Espera" Mixed / cloth 60x40 CM
2013. FOUNDATION TEATRAL JULIO CÉSAR LUNA. Bogotá D. C. Work. Consentida Girl Acrylic / Canvas 50 x 70 cm
2013. MUSEUM OF AMERICAN EROTIC ART, MAREA. Bogotá D.C. Work. El Embrujo Mixta / Canvas 90x70 Cm
And in different private collections in Colombia and abroad.