In the Rafael Prada Ardila and Gustavo Gómez Ardila halls at the central campus of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, as well as in the Macaregua Hall – UIS Bucarica headquarters, are the creative exercises of twenty students in their last semester of the Plastic Arts program of the Instituto de Proyección Regional y Educación a Distancia (Ipred) 2024-2, entitled: Dimensiones Compartidas (Shared Dimensions).
New media, drawing, illustration, painting, sculpture, installation and photography are the techniques used on this occasion for the proposals that can be visited until February 17, 2025 in the aforementioned rooms.
“There is also a work that has an approach to street art or urban art, it materialized and was staged in a space in the city of Bucaramanga and this time came to the room, we also have some works that mix, possibly not only use a single technique, but by its nature of installation ranging from video to painting” mentioned the teacher Roger Diaz Carreño, professor of visual arts UIS, in charge of curating the rooms of the University and evaluator of graduate work.
This exhibition is the result of the process of students called degree work, which has taken them a year of research; today has expanded also reaching the exhibition hall of the Casona of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, Unab.
“There they show their first works of an expository nature, with a research base and, above all, which are the support for them to have their master’s degree in plastic arts. The interests that motivate each of the creative exercises come from the individual students, some of them are interested in working with communities, others with approaches to historical reviews, others with reviews of materials, others are more interested in totally introspective themes of their experiences or different experiences. So, it is quite a dissimilar exhibition, there is no totally defined curatorial axis, because they practically present their own interests and their own plastic developments”, added Díaz Carreño.
Finally, he said, “it is also important for the spectators and the community in general to come to the halls, to recognize them as part of the city, as part of Santander, and to see how these processes and concerns of different students who were in the academy for 5 years, were able to materialize their work. Unlike other careers, Plastic Arts is not only for them to be able to have their master’s degree in plastic arts, they must make a document and a materialized work, either in the format or support they decide, they must develop it and exhibit it, I think that is one of the most complex things, but also the most interesting”.
From 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon the rooms are open and in the afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00 in the UIS rooms and in the Unab until 6:00 p.m.
