Colombia, b. 1970

The energetic paintings of Columbian painter and mixed-media artist Alejandro Ospina investigate the phenomena of visual information and question the notions of authorship and self-representation in this digitally led era. His work reuses and fuses different types of imagery to form a sort of collage, creating an overload of visual information, mimicking on the canvas the workings of the mind as it processes information on the internet. His works are a commentary on social media and the complexities of the virtual realm. Ospina explains: 'I try to work in ways that reflect continuous changes in attention at a rate and method that would have seemed absurd before the arrival of the Internet, simulating what happens in our minds when we jump from image to image accumulating and merging layers of visual information. I want the work to reflect how the Internet has mutated the way we look at sets of images or contemplate a stream of information.'

Ospina uses mixed media to explore the evolution of our changing relationship with image in the digital age, creating a fusion of the traditional and the neo-technological.  Freezing the digital movement we have become so attuned to into a multi-faceted palimpsest which evokes evolution and change.  Ospina creates a collage of subconscious images which find their way into deep corners of our psyche, where they are disentangled and translated into the language of the conscious mind. Ospina has widely exhibited in the United Kingdom and North and South America including at the Saatchi Gallery, the Creekside Open, ArtBo, SParte, the Royal Academy Summer Show, and the IMT Gallery, among others. He has also had ten solo exhibitions that have been held both in London and Colombia, most recently at Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, in 2016 and forthcoming in March 2018.

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