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BaldotBiography



Baldot is a Colombian artist from Valledupar who since childhood has always wanted to be a painter.

But life turned such he lived as a professionnal boxer conducting an international career on the latino american continent. Retired from the ring he then dedicated himself fully to his inner, his core impulsion for the lines and and the colors.

From one dance to another, from swiftness to spontaneity, from strenght to power, from the body and the mind the movements of life  which were at play in the ring are now on the canvas.

Roots, soul, spirit, human awarness, earth, misteries, something of a woodoo trance is around here.

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Baldot’s work is strong and sensitive. It bears no compromise ; it is immediate, its comes from the soul, from deep in the soul, through and old and permanent struggle, a personnal and also universal human heritage, and is yet an achievement on each canvas.

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“Art is like humanity itself, with beautiful and interesting imperfections. The viewer must let himself be carried away by the emotion generated by the work, which is the fruit of an ancestral heritage. It is he who shapes my paintings… roots are transformed into colorful images, meeting, producing masks which are expressions of my Afro-descendant identity. With their dance and their roots, they survive on my canvas, in an imaginary world.

In my work I bring to life the reflection of the richness of the Colombian Caribbean, with its joy, its magic, its composition and all its heritage of great tribes who conquered Latin America with their color. Hidden bodies, faces of black men, mulattoes, natives, mixed gods, wanting to emerge from the canvas itself. I am spontaneous, I ritualize with the canvas. I am expressive and I never work without a reason, because I believe in works with a concept. My features are guided by my soul, wanting to find myself, my dreams, my past, my struggle, questioning the very concept of seeing art.



My avatar is Naif, Benba Colora (strong lips), Eccehomo. My organic faces are sweet. The bull and his strength. I am always the chicken that I paint, and the same chicken in all my series. My soul is always naked. My paintings are free, rebellious, they guide themselves. They touch each other, mix, mate in mythical forms. They slide like snakes on the canvas, seductive, fiery. I let them intertwine to become one. Sometimes they stop, I just look at them. If I interrupt them, it won't be me or them. They dominate my energy and create incredible textures, like volcanic lava, reflecting organic and prehistoric humanoid figures, like the very beginning of time, beautiful like the infinite journey of existence.

This is why this way of expressing myself respects the dominance of color and the figure of the canvas, which has not been dominated by its creator, but which is free for the viewer.”


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