BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.- The Museo Nacional de Colombia and the Casas Reigner Gallery present the exhibition titled Carlos Rojas: A Visit to his Worlds, on view through July 20, 2008. The exhibition was curated by three young researchers: Felipe González, Julián Serna and Nicolás Gómez, coordinated by the Curatorship of Art and History of the Museo Nacional. The exhibition proposes a look into the production of Carlos Rojas since his dedication to collect objects, impressions and experiences. The curators stated, “We want to work along the relationship between his work and the objects he collected and make evident that his proximity to abstract art comes from a concrete place and it is a registry of his reality.”

The Museo Nacional organized the exhibition as part of the National Hommage Program, a series of exhibitions of the great masters of Colombian art. The exhibition shows Carlos Rojas as a pioneer in the exploration and appropiation of modern visual language.

Carlos Rojas was born in Facatativa on April 18, 1933 and died in Bogotá on May 2, 1997. He was an artist that combined his architecture studies at the Universidad Javeriana with courses on painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional. He first started to exhibit his work at the end of the decade of 1950 and was given a scholarship by the government to specialize in Applied Design in the School of Fine Arts in Rome.