What it is
Art Museum of Villa de Leyva
It is a private, non-profit foundation for the exhibition and promotion of art, in various manifestations, its museological collections are based on the career of Octavio Martínez Charry, Master Sculptor (UNal)
To link with its territory, the Villa Art Museum will manage a space of convergence between arts, culture and cultural heritage, in which tools are created that allow us to recognize the artistic expressions of the environment that surrounds us, presenting the public at exhibitions of all kinds.
To link with its territory, the Villa Art Museum will manage a space of convergence between arts, culture and cultural heritage, in which tools are created that allow us to recognize the artistic expressions of the environment that surrounds us, presenting the public at exhibitions of all kinds.
COLLECTION
Colombian Artists
Sample of the works held by the museum, covering different techniques, such as: Acrylic, Oil, Screen Printing, Engraving, Pastel, Watercolor, Ink, etc. Click on the button below to go to the page of this collection.
Eduardo Emilio Esparza
Serigrafía - 2002
Diego Pombo
Serigrafía - 1989
Víctor Pérez Cifuentes
Serigrafia - 1998
Carlos Orrea
Acrílico sobre lienzo - 2008
César Vallejo
Óleo sobre lienzo - 1998
Armando Villegas
Grafismos tecnica mixta sobre papel - 20??
Carlos Sablon
Óleo sobre lienzo - 2001
Exhibition of the founder of MAVI
Octavio Martínez Charry
In the reception room of the Alcestre Hotel you will find this representative sample of the master sculptor's work.
The founder of MAVI
I have always believed that the sculptor Octavio Martínez Charry is capable of going beyond walls. He himself is a door through which he passes, open to all the wonderful mornings of the world. Such is his rapport with the void, to which he has been able to erect the monument of his own work.Specialized in handling the heaviest materials, in smelting deadly lavas, in bending the hardness of the element with fiery tongs, the hard soul of his work through a prodigy of non-existence becomes ungraspable, since it relies on complete nothingness to pose the forceful presence of the ghost.'What counts in a container is the internal emptiness,' says a minimal Zen. 'Why are there things and not nothing?' Gonzalo Arango asked himself in a poem. And the mathematician Valery finished off reality with this trick: «There is nothing as beautiful as what does not exist».
Jotamario Arbeláez
Facilities
The House Museum is located in Villa de Leyva
In the municipality of the same name; In the department of Boyacá, public access is free, visitors can enjoy the following services:
EXHIBITION ROOM
With works by the master sculptor Octavio Martínez Charry and other plastic artists, both national and foreign.
EXHIBITION
See room
ART LIBRARY
To promote knowledge and better understanding of modern and contemporary art through a wide collection of books.
More than 200 art books and magazines available.
SEE LIBRARY
Villa Vinilo is a traveling space dedicated to the conservation of sound documents and historical - social - Cultural memory of Colombia, Latin America and the World.
See Villa Vinyl Program
EXPERIMENTATION
The museum experiments at a visual technological level on round-the-clock video presentation!
Programs
VINYL VILLA
The Villa Vinilo Program is a traveling space dedicated to the conservation of sound documents and historical - social - Cultural memory of Colombia, Latin America and the World. We present ourselves as a means of cultural exchange that is part of the Museums' services, based on musical expressions and their various genres, diversity that is part of the musical heritage of humanity.
Calls
The calls for artists aim to involve artists, not only locals but also from other departments and countries, to contribute their art to annual exhibitions. The images correspond to the call made in 2021.
How to participate in the MAVI
Participate in MAVI events, exhibitions, workshops and special events, for which you can sign up for the mailing list to be notified of such events in good time.
In the same way, the MAVI will publish the program of activities that it will carry out in its facilities in this same medium: See program of activities!
Events WorkshopsFlyer distribution
- Participate with ... in exhibitions.
- Delivery of workshops for the public
- Participate in the network of Alto Ricaurte artists
If yoIf you wish to make a cash contribution to MAVI, we provide you with the information:
- Bank: Bancolombia
- Account Type: Savings
- Account Number: 502 0000 1024
- Branch: Villa de Leyva
The short-term MAVI projects are listed below; To achieve this, financial support is required either from companies, cultural support foundations and/or through a crowdfunding effort to achieve the following objectives:
- Publication of the catalog of the work of the master Octavio Martínez Charry in the form of art books, this work consists of around 400 medium and small sculptures, as well as 20 monumental sculptures in a collection that can be from 1 to 3 volumes.
- The development of a technological platform on the Internet in which one's own sculptural work and that of other artists can be displayed, whose main characteristic would be to present the works in a round package (video with the sculptures rotating), click on the image of the right to see this proof of concept in action.
- Creation of the Network of Alto Ricaurte artists that brings together all those who are considered as such for the subsequent creation of Cultural Routes that allow attendees of both the MAVI and the members of the network to facilitate the visit to their respective places of work. exhibition and promotion of Villa de Leyva as a cultural as well as tourist destination.
- In the medium term, the achievement of an ad-hoc location for the exhibition of MAVI's artistic work.
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