Jacanamijoy

Only the amazing environment of the Amazon, his native land and the piece of the country where he spent his childhood, explains the pictorial universe of Carlos Jacanamijoy, the young Colombian artist of pure indigenous roots. His canvases, which show great skill in the use of "leo", a technique of eminently European origin, are impregnated with color, reflections and movement. Nothing in them comes close to what we understand today as figuration, everything in them is sensory acuity in refined and variegated elaboration. Without a doubt, Jacanamijoy's originality is linked to his express decision not to distance himself from his ancestral historical legacy but, on the contrary, to elaborate it in his rich and daring plastic approaches. Jacanamijoy's work has without doubts a bright future in Colombian plastic arts of this century.