Juan Eugenio Ochoa (Colombia, 1983) graduated in Medicine in 2007 and then obtained a PhD degree in Cardiovascular Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca. During the period 2011-2013 he attended the department of Visual arts at Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan obtaining a master degree in Painting in 2013 with a thesis dissertation on «Analytical painting in Italy and Europe». He has participated to several solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Winner and finalist of some National and International Art Contests.
He lives and works in Milan.
Juan Eugenio Ochoa
statement
My work in painting represents an abstract-figurative synthesis based on two essential assumptions: The figurative vision of the image on one hand, and its abstract dimension on the other. My painting thus lingers on a binary threshold placed between the appearance of the image and the disappearance of its contours in a defined or undefined geometrical abstraction.
The creative process of my paintings follows the principles of traditional oil painting. The pictorial stratification obtained with the overlay of transparencies and luminous veils wraps the morphological profile of the image which cannot be precisely identified, escaping any possibility to be recognized.
What emerges from the transparencies of the painting is thus the primordial mystery of the images which appear in the evanescent space of the painting just at the point to reveal something, but far from revealing. What really matters is not the revealed thing, but the process of revealing itself. It is the mystery of the revelation what promotes the dialogue between the figurative and abstract dimensions of the image, which instead of going into a conflictual relationship, remain always reciprocally amplifying. The observation process returns thus, once again, to analyze and reaffirm the essential nature of the painting: to be a sensible, perceptive phenomenon.
Juan Eugenio Ochoa
iconica-analitica series
Serie Iconica-Analitica, 2015, Olio su tela, 20x20 cm (left); and 20cm (right) Private Collection
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2014, oil on canvas, 120x80 cm.
Winner Young International Contest of Contemporary Art (YICCA) prize 2014, Lugano, Switzerland
Right panel: Exhibition at Aula Hayez, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2016, oil on canvas, diptych, 70x100 cm
Collection Museo dello Zucchero, Corso Acqui 254, Nizza-Monferrato, Italy
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2014, oil on canvas, 140x100 cm
Installation for the group show of Students Brera Academy of Fine Arts,
Curated by Gaetano Grillo, Milan, Italy, 2018
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2016, oil on canvas, diptych, 150x200 cm
Iconica-Analitica (series),
2016, oil on canvas,
diptych, 150x200 cm Installation for
“Fragments of self,” Paratissima Art Fair, Turin., 2018
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2016 oil on canvas, 40x40 cm
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2016, oil on canvas, diptych 120x160 cm Collection Museo d’Arte Grafica del Mediterraneo Marchionni, MAGMMA
Winner Painting section, Marchionni Prize, Sardinia, Italia
Iconica-Analitica (series) 2015, oil on canvas, 150x100
Collection Museum St. Ulrich, Domplatz 2, 93047, Regensburg, Deutschland
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2015, oil on canvas, diptych 120x160 cm Private collection
Finalists exhibition, Laguna Prize 2016, Arsenale di Venezia Winner Artist in Gallery Prize
Iconica-Analitica (serie), 2017 dittico 100 x 140 cm, Olio su tela
Della serie Lirica-Analitica, 2015, Olio su tela, 100x70 cm Premio della Giuria, Combat Prize 2015, Livorno
Private Collection
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2015, oil on canvas, 150x100 cm Winner Lynx Prize 2015 Collection Associazione Culturale Il Sestante, via Tivarnella 5, Trieste, Italy.
Lirica-Analitica (serie) 2014, oil on canvas, 120x80 cm
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2016, oil on canvas, diptych 120x160 cm Right: Exhibition of Finalistts at San Fedele Prize, Prize Milano
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2015, oil on canvas, 120x80 cm.
Winner Premio Arte, Cairo Editore 2015
Iconica-Analitica (series), 2015, oil on canvas, 120x80 cm.
Winner Premio Arte, Cairo Editore 2015
Finalists Exhibiition, Premio Arte, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Lirica Analitica (Serie), 200x80 cm, olio su tela
Opera Partecipante alle VI Biennale Giovani Monza, 2015 Palazzo dell’Arengario Monza, Italia
Lirica-Analitica, Curated by Andrea del Guercio. XV edition Rassegna Internazionale di arredi, oggetti liturgici e componenti per l’edilizia di culto (KOINÈ). Vicenza Fair, april 13-16, 2013 (Cat).
blu and silk series
Blu and silk (series), 2017, oil on silk on plexiglass support. Frame on wood 62X52 cm each element.
Blu and silk (series), 2017, oil on silk 52X52 cm each element
Blu and silk (series), 2018, oil on silk 62X52 cm
Blu and silk (series), 2017, oil on silk on plexiglass support. Frame on wood 102X72 cm
Blu and silk (series)-2018 - oil on silk 70x100cm support in plexiglass
Installation fo the exhibition «REMBRANDT incisioni» Museo d’Arte Grafica del Mediterraneo, Sardinia, 2018
Blu and silk (series)-2017 - oil on silk 200x100cm - support in plexiglass
Installation for the exhibition «Vanishing» Biffi Arte Gallery, Piacenza, 2018
Blu and silk (series)-2017 - oil on silk 200x100cm - support in plexiglass
Installation for the exhibition «Unveiling» Festival Filosofia 2018, Modena, Carpi, Sassuolo