Ashes of Freedom

FAVIAN OJEDA, Colombia

Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela; and currently based in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. At the age of 7, he began his artistic search by participating in local art calls, managing to qualify with a proposal in the city of Caracas, with which he achieved his first collective exhibition of a creative proposal with the K for Kellogg's in 1980 at the Museum. of the kids. In 1991, without prior artistic training, he entered the School of Plastic Arts to begin his training as a graphic designer, which led him to continue pursuing more advanced studies in this field, until in 1995 he entered what was the first school of graphic design at the university level in Venezuela. Among the studies he carried out throughout his career were graphic composition and graphic representation techniques, awakening in him a special interest in the techniques and systems of expression that expanded his artistic vision. His studies as a graphic designer have led him to create an extensive portfolio and experience in branding development applied to companies and institutions that still maintain his identity design today. He currently works as a freelance graphic designer for clients in Colombia and outside the country. Today he focuses his gaze as a designer on pure art and wants to finish cultivate that initial passion in an academic and practical way, trying to expand his mastery of his craft in a constant search to touch on new themes and explore new unconventional ways of creating. that offer their public a natural interest in their artistic proposal, approaching a vision that is sensitive to social minorities that are often relegated from being able to enjoy art. His aegis is that the viewer feels part of the art and interacts with it. At the end of the day, art is the essence of being human. Since 2010 he has been developing typographic work based on Caligrama and Typo Art. Compositions that range from the decorative to the thematic. His training as a graphic designer has allowed him to approach the guidelines of this discipline to create digital art using innovative printing systems that give the pieces great visual richness. Each work speaks of typography in its behavior and adaptation to the artist's intention. In 2012 Favián Ojeda participated in the I BOD Culture Hall, sponsored by Banco Occidental de Crédito in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. It was a call that celebrated Zulian culture and idiosyncrasy in which it competed with more than 3,500 proposals in which 50 had to be selected to be exhibited in the Competition Hall and only 4 works would be selected to be exhibited in the facades of some emblematic towers in that city for the space of a year in a gallery open to the public and a cash prize, among which Almarabina was selected, a work that clearly and vividly reflects the Zulia culture through a large calligram that evokes a section of the bridge over Lake Maracibo that is built from words that describe the State of Zulia.