Dario Ortiz

Dario Ortiz Robledo (born September 12, 1968) is a Colombian artist.^[1][2][3]

Ortiz, a self-taught artist, was born in Ibagué, Colombia. He studied History and Art Appreciation in the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 1990-91. Since 1995, he has been a contributor to the Ibaque newspaper, El Nuevo Día. Ortiz publications include the books: Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo, the painter of beauty (1996), Neorealism (2000), in collaboration with Carol Damian, and the essays Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos drawings (2007), A Brief History of the arts in the territory of Tolima (2007), and A novel painted (2008).

In 2003 Ortiz founded, and is the head of, the Museo de Arte del Tolima in Ibagué.^[4]

Public Collections

• MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California .
• Museo Civico di Abano Terme, Padova, Italy.
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Museo Maguncia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
• Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
• Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Marta, Colombia.

Recent solo exhibitions

2003:

• Darío Ortiz, drawings: Alfred Wild Gallery, Bogotá;
• The time a entelechy: Cultural Center El Arcangel, Vienna, Austria;
• The time a entelechy: Presidential Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2006:

• The human Condition: Mundo Gallery, Bogotá;
• Darío Ortiz 2005-2006: ArtBo 2006, Bogotá.

2007:

• Darío Ortiz, FIA 07: Latin American Art Fair, Caracas, Venezuela.

2008:

• Window to the world: Museum of Art of Tolima, Ibagué;
• Window to the world: Museo of Contemporary Art of Huila, Neiva;
• Window to the world: Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Marta;
• Window to the world: Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena.

2009:

• Window to the world: Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador;
• Darío Ortiz, Intimate mythology: Metropolitan Museum Center, Ecuador;
• Darío Ortiz, Intimate mythology: Museum of Contemporary Art, Guayaquil, Ecuador.^[5]

References

1. ^ Amable López Meléndez, "Darío Ortiz en Santo Domingo", Hoy (Santo Domingo), August 1, 2009 (Spanish).
2. ^ Cristóbal Peñafiel, "Darío Ortiz Robledo: ‘Mi mejor obra la haré mañana", El Universo, April 9, 2009 (Spanish).
3. ^ "Darío Ortiz abrió su 'Ventana al Mundo'", El Espectador, September 29, 2008 (Spanish).
4. ^ "Historia" at Museo de Arte del Tolima website (Spanish)(accessed January 25, 2011).
5. ^ [1], Bandtrazos gallery web page

External links

• Several paintings of Dario Ortiz
• The artist web page
• >[2], Banditrazos gallery web page, Seoul, Korea </ref>

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Name	Ortiz, Dario
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Date of birth	September 12, 1968
Place of birth	Ibague
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