Maluma x Uribe
Maluma x Uribe
Hosted by Adelson Gallery
Maluma x Uribe
exhibition will be open to the public starting January 29th to February 28th of 2021.
Located at 2534 North Miami Ave
Miami, FL 33127
Hours are from Tuesday - Sunday, 12 P.M. - 7 P.M.
Over the past year, recording artist Maluma and artist Federico Uribe have developed a friendship and have discussed their travels and personal experiences of seeing man-made trash spread through our beautiful planet. Both artists have an urgent desire to protect our world.
Uribe has made a name for himself over the past 20 years as a master of utilizing objects – often recycled materials – to create life-like sculptures. When Maluma saw these works for the first time, he instantly connected with them and knew that Uribe’s message aligned with his principles. They have a shared desire to bring awareness to the discarded plastic and artificial materials scattered throughout the world’s landscapes and oceans and want to work together to contribute towards the solution.
Uribe recently created an incredibly accurate portrait of Maluma’s face made from recycled plastic, which will serve as the album cover for Maluma’s newest album “#7DJ.” The art piece will be auctioned off with 100% of the proceeds going to environmental non-profits presented by Maluma’s foundation, El Arte De Los Suenos.
In Uribe’s largest exhibition to date, hundreds of works are on display in an 18,500 square foot showroom in Miami, open to the public. A portion of the proceeds from any sale will benefit non-profits based in Colombia, including Fundacion Amigos del Mar, Jardín Botánico de Cartagena and Stand Up Providencia.
In an effort to share the remarkable portrait of Maluma to an even larger audience, Federico Uribe and Adelson Galleries have teamed up with Blazing Editions (Providence, RI) to create a limited-edition series of 15. The Archival Inkjet Prints on Canvas have hand applied plastic pieces, which makes each piece unique. The works have all been signed by Federico Uribe and Maluma and numbered on the reverse. With the purchase of each work, a portion of the proceeds will go towards Maluma’s Foundation, El Arte de Los Sueños, to train adolescents in situations of vulnerability, in being, knowing and doing, through art.
About Federico
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Uribe lives and works in Miami. His artwork resists classification. Rooted in the craft of sculpture and paint, it rises from intertwining everyday objects in all possible and surprising ways, but still with a formal reference to the history and tradition of classical art.
Uribe studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogota and in 1988 left for New York to study a master-of-fine-arts degree under the supervision of Luis Camnitzer. It was the beginning of a journey that included years of studies and work in Cuba, Mexico, Russia, England and finally Miami.
Initially his formation began as a painter with sensual and brooding canvases influenced by his dark reflections on the Catholic sense of pain, guilt and sexuality.
In 1996, abandoning his paintbrushes and attracted by the usually neglected beauty of simple objects in daily use, he began to observe them with care, collect them, set them side by side and combine them. They became unusual instruments of a new aesthetic, full of color, irony and lively playfulness.
Uribe creates sculptures which are not sculpted but constructed and weaved, in curious and unpredictable, repetitive and almost compulsive ways. They follow the classical canons of figurative and abstract art, but the result is absolutely whimsical, yet contains enormous efficacy and communicability. When observed from close, his works reveal various kinds of interpretations; invites us to touch them, to discover the detail and connection between one element and another. When viewed from further away, they offer volumes, forms, textures and color. Distance, proximity and perception are key factors in the interconnection between Uribe’s work and its viewers.
The title of his creations is very important to Uribe, because it reveals his deep connections to language and literature. “Most of my work is based on words”, says Uribe, “I sometimes start with a name and look for my objects, sometimes the object makes me think of the word, and I exploit it to create a work.” A happy and sometimes disconcerting association of materials and ideas leads their dichotomy to metamorphoses, guided by clearly defined conceptual procedures, and results in ironic, benevolent provocation.