Ortiz, Jorge

Ortiz belonged to the hippie movement in Medellín. With his series "Cables"—high tension lines, high tension towers, transformers, mostly photographed against a somber sky background in square formats—and "Boquerón"—cloudy skies photographed at regular intervals—he was one of the representatives of Colombian conceptual photography. In 1978, he participated in the "IV Salón Atenas," and in the 1980s, he exhibited in Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, London, Cuba, Argentina, and Miami. In 1992, he received, along with Danilo Dueñas, the prize at the Salón Nacional de Artistas, and he presented a series of interventions on photosensitive paper at FotoFest in Houston. In 1996, he won the grant awarded by Colcultura for experimental work. In 1997, his series "Un bosque un jardín" earned him an honorable mention in the first Luis Caballero Prize. He is currently working on landscapes, obtained on various supports of unfixed photosensitive solutions. In 2015, he participated in the exhibition "Self-portrait Disguised as an Artist," presented in Bogotá at the Museo del Banco de la República and at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (as part of ARCO Madrid). The same year, the space El Dorado in Bogotá dedicated a retrospective to him.