Mario Vélez

The work of Mario Vélez (Medellín, 1968), a fortunate product of the country's current plastic events, is the subject of this new one by Villegas Editores. His career, which began in the nineties, when the artist was a finalist in the “Oltre il Muro” contest in Milan, Italy, continues and is made known through numerous individual and group exhibitions in Colombia, Ale - mania, Austria, United States, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama and Switzerland. This book, which covers the work of Mario Vélez with the help of Luis Fernando Valencia, who knows it in depth, confirms this valuable artistic presence and affirms. “If every painting must be a testimony of its time and also carry behind it the tradition it abandons, the painting of Mario Vélez demonstrates this fact with elaborate resolution.”