Boli

Rayando el sol en Oporto

2024

Bolívar Lino Toala (Boli) was born in Quito (Ecuador) in 1968 and graduated in Fine Arts there. He later settled in Valencia (Spain), where he received his doctorate in Fine Arts. In the artist's own words: “Today's eye probably cannot perceive the vibrations of the world through today's art. Contemporary art confronts the insignificant, the ephemeral, the constant inquiry, the external. Wordless language is the bridge between art and artist. And we should not be obsessed with the fact that we are at the end of art. Our human history has run parallel to the life of art, the transversality of techniques, media, tools and discourses has prevailed. There are as many theoretical positions as those that defend its natural environment without forgetting the origins of the past in terms of a return to prehistory. It is much more complex to understand contemporary art because the aesthetic language has expanded transversally. Therefore, from my point of view as a multidisciplinary artist, the languages of art go in the direction of what happens to society. In the first instance, I continue to explore the simplicity of the technique of oil painting, acrylic, drawing and watercolor. On the other hand, I believe that thanks to the irony of Land Art, the act of collecting and selecting artistic elements from Nature, that only by organizing them aesthetically, or by drifting along the paths of the landscape, can become a work of art”.