Biography

MauRO
Gutiérrez Díaz
Multidisciplinary artist in constant exploration of the image and its perception. Since 2011 he has worked with native Colombian communities, especially the Sikuani. In parallel with this, he delves and researches native communities in different latitudes of America to attach them subsequently with a respectful, righteous, critical, and restorative sense in large part of their fanciful and perception.
Most of his representations are timeless and are juxtaposed with Western cultural icons, seeking to provoke contrasts that are set up as critical pieces regarding issues that he contemplates as vital to take care of, such as history framed in the human condition, inequalities, inequities, politics, criticism of several visions of coloniality, decolonization, and interculturality.
Initially starting from architecture, and since 2015 in other scopes that could be considered more attached to plastic art, namely as painting and installations, video art, and cinematographic language. Thereby, the artist experiments with sundries materials from his experience as an architect, developing in his work different representation techniques, going from oil paint, aerosols, digital art, and collages to technology and audiovisual images.
