Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura

Featured artist: Victoria García Moreno

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Cover image: The threads that bind us together (2021)

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Featured artist: Daniel R. Blanco

Their work is a quest for reconciling non-binary queer identity with the natural world.

Cover image: Naufragio (2024)

Featured Artist: Guillermo Londoño

In his series "What the eye does not see", Londoño paints imagined landscapes that look like our
cultural landscape —his way to denounce the destruction of Nature at the hands of man

Featured artist: Harrison Tobón

His work uses different techniques to explore the representation of urban spaces.

Cover image: Paisajes hechos a mano (2016)

Artist: Diego Sierra Enciso

Sierra Enciso contrasts the present of places and objects and the past hidden within them.

Cover image: Poema azul caos (2012)

Featured artist: Gertrude Martin Laprade

The concepts of "habitability" and "the alive" have a constant presence on her paintings.

Cover image: Entrada al solar, oil on canvas, 90 x 45 cm, 2020.

Artist: Marcela Ramírez Aza

Her abstract paintings use form and color to express both the artist's internal subjectivity
and external reality. Cover image: Gracia 12 (mixed media, 30 x 15 cm, 2013)

Artist: María Morán

Her paintings are influenced by the landscapes of her childhood at the foot of the Galeras
volcano. Cover image: Sábila lejos del cerro (oil on canvas, 1.26 x 1.26 m, 1990)

Artist: Victoria Ortiz

Her engraving work features recurrent themes: women, birds, and the tropics.
Cover image: Exótico (woodcut, 2020)

Artist: Laura Osorio

Her recent work focuses on the interaction between light and darkness on the canvas.
Cover image: Interacción, (oil on canvas, 2015)

Artist: Yina Lopera

Lopera captures in her paintings what the Japanese call komorebi: sunlight filtering through
tree leaves. Cover image: Refugio (oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm)

Artist: Kindi Llatju

His works offers a glimpse of his natal Manoy, in the Amazon rainforest, by combining painting, drawing, and fiber arts, and using unconventional materials like horsehair and copper threads.

Artist: Óscar López Ospina

Awarded painter and sculptor. Cover image: Abstracción pura 1382 (El vuelo del color)
(oil on cardboard, 50 x 25 cm, 2020)

Artist: Pascual Ruiz

Accomplished master of painting, drawing, engraving, and sculpture.
Cover image: Del mariposeo a la introspección (oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2009)

Artist: Miguel Arosemena

A leading representative of the contemporary figuration movement through painting
and engraving. Cover image: Espíritu anarquista (oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm, 2018)

Artist: Tomás Gallego

Through his artworks, he conveys a sense of movement that is an ongoing experimentation.
Cover image: Floración (acrylic on canvas, 45 x 25 cm, 2018)