Publisher's Synopsis
The work of Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría (b. 1947), consisting mainly of photography and video installations, deals with the violence and civil conflicts that have ravaged his country through the twentieth century and up to the present day. Juan Manuel Echavarría.Works is the first monographic volume devoted to the artist, who is based in Medellín. The images in this book, produced in typological series, render visible the invisible, allowing us to observe the horrors concealed behind them (drug trafficking, massacres of campesinos, forced disappearances...), without having to look at them directly. In the words of critic Hans-Michael Herzog, Echavarría's work is "a metaphor for human pain", which seeks to open up spaces of reflection and emotion that provoke a reaction in the viewer. Juan Manuel Echavarría has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in NewYork and the Fondation Cartier and the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. His first solo exhibition in the United States, Mouths of Ash, was organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2005.
