Luis Fernando Pelaez

Born in Jericho, Colombia in 1945 Luis Fernando Peláez has become one of South America’s most successful sculptors.  His work has been shown in the 25^th Biennial of Sao Paulo and he has work in public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia, the Museum of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia and the Museum of Contemporary of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Luis Fernando Peáez is one of only two Colombian artists who are part of the Royal Association of British Sculpture.

 

His work involves time, place and the memory of the individual and the collective.  He often works in spaces of regeneration and conveys a deep sense of nostalgia towards past experiences and visual metaphors found in these landscapes.  

 

“The cities of nowhere, moments stored in the memory and nostalgic pieces of the individual stories, they began to be frozen in assemblages of objects, creating situations in which the three-dimensional narrative elements and found by Luis Fernando Peláez, managed to describe circumstances surrounding the architecture of a space recreated by the aesthetics of silence and nostalgia.”  

 

Luis first came to Metal in 2002 and has since returned with his architect son, Juan Manuel Peláez, to work on a project for Liverpool at Edge Hill Station; ‘Nexus’.