Biography
Óscar González, known by the name Guache — a Muisca word meaning 'warrior' — is a Colombian muralist born in Bogotá and a major figure of the Latin American street art scene. Trained in graphic design at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, he has been developing since the mid-2000s a practice that stages the cosmologies and physiognomies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
His graphic vocabulary combines saturated color blocks, straight lines, textile geometries and precise ethno-anatomical lines, in order to make visible the Muisca, Andean and Afro-Colombian heritages that colonial history has long obscured. The artist stands both within Bogotá's rich graffiti tradition — one of the most active scenes in the world — and within the contemporary Latin American neo-muralist movement.
His works have been shown in New York, Madrid, Havana, Santiago de Chile and Paris, and in 2020 entered the collections of Bogotá's Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2017-2018 he painted, for the 75th anniversary of the Colombo Americano, 'The Eagle and the Andean Condor,' an emblematic piece of La Candelaria that stages a dialogue between the two totemic birds of the American continent.
His graphic vocabulary combines saturated color blocks, straight lines, textile geometries and precise ethno-anatomical lines, in order to make visible the Muisca, Andean and Afro-Colombian heritages that colonial history has long obscured. The artist stands both within Bogotá's rich graffiti tradition — one of the most active scenes in the world — and within the contemporary Latin American neo-muralist movement.
His works have been shown in New York, Madrid, Havana, Santiago de Chile and Paris, and in 2020 entered the collections of Bogotá's Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2017-2018 he painted, for the 75th anniversary of the Colombo Americano, 'The Eagle and the Andean Condor,' an emblematic piece of La Candelaria that stages a dialogue between the two totemic birds of the American continent.
The site contains a total of 1 artworks by Guache in 1 countries.
