Miguel Ángel Cárdenas
Miguel Ángel Cárdenas (Espinal, Colombia, 1934) Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas was born in Espinal, Colombia in 1934. Between 1953 and 1957 he studied architecture at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, and visual art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Bogota. In 1961 the Ministry of Culture of Colombia awarded him a scholarship to study at the Barcelona School of Graphic Arts. In 1962 he moved to the Netherlands and has been living there ever since. Shortly after his arrival in the Netherlands, Cárdenas got a solo exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and participated in the great exhibition "Pop Art and New Realism" (1964 -1965; The Hague, Brussels, Vienna, Berlin) that also featured works by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg. Cárdenas was one of the ten artists invited by then Crown Princess, HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for a series of cultural soirees at the Drakesteijn Castle in 1969. His performance was called "Symphony for seven waiters", and it also included Prince Claus, Wim Beeren, Marinus Boezem, Ad Dekkers, Jan Dibbets and Peter Struycken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMINXuVYT8
Tunga
Tunga(Palmares, Brasil, 1952)Tunga (born Jose de Barros Carvalho e Mello) worked in sculpture, installation, photography, poetry, and video. His site-specific installations transform galleries into dreamlike environments with an array of materials, including plastic, thread, and repurposed objects. Though materially intensive, Tunga’s practice was highly conceptual—his works are intentionally enigmatic, meant to resist certainty and confound viewers. For À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds) (2007), he hung from a gallery ceiling a massive assemblage of bones, iron, bundles of skulls, metal wire, and bronze replicas of classical sculpture sheathed in mesh, a commentary on the delicate balance between life and death Tunga, Xifópagas Capilares entre Nós (Capillary Xiphopagus among Us) 1984.
Nicolás Franco
Nicolás Franco (Santiago, Chile, 1973) Nicolás Franco was born in 1973 in Santiago, Chile, where he currently lives and works. He studied Visual Arts at the Universidad de Chile and Universidad Complutense de Madrid and was an artist in residence at Gasworks, London and De Ateliers, Amsterdam. His work encompasses painting, photography and sculpture, proposing a flow of enigmatic relationships between language, images, objects and materials. The leitmotifs of many works revolve around historical events and recollections related to the theme of human existence, the splendour and decadence of things and the crossroads between personal and collective memory. His work has been presented at Tate Modern (London), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), MEIAC (Badajoz), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima), Museo Blanes (Montevideo), Museo del Barro (Asunción), MUUA (Antioquia), Sala Alcalá 31 (Madrid), Centro de Arte La Conservera (Murcia), Stroom Den Haag (La Haya), De Ateliers (Amsterdam), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago), Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago), Museo de la Memoria y los derechos Humanos (Santiago) y Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago). He participated in the First Triennial of Chile and the 12 Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios (Chile).