Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe

September 2018 through August 2019

Federico Uribe (Colombian, b. 1962) creates magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. For the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, he will install a large-scale site-specific environment in the museum’s rotunda. Uribe produces immersive and dreamlike landscapes by transforming materials such as books, colored pencils, wood fragments, and discarded clothing into animals and natural habitats. These new and innovative forms are simultaneously entrenched in formal art-making traditions while breaking free of their constraints. They are sculptures that are not sculpted but constructed and woven in curious and unpredictable, repetitive and almost compulsive ways. They follow the classical canon of figurative and abstract art, but the result is absolutely whimsical and yet powerful.

Federico Uribe, Colombian, b. 1962, Tiger, 2016, Bullet Shells, 34h x 79w x 47d in, Collection of the artist, and courtesy of Adelson Galleries

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