Mola: Arte Sin Fronteras world tour exhibition

20/10/2025

Johanna Villamil (Bogotá, 1985) is a visual artist and graphic designer. Her work emerges from a constant questioning of memory and the ways in which we inhabit time. Through different techniques and tools, Villamil creates sensitive archives that resist the transience of the digital and the speed of contemporary urban landscapes. Her work is, in essence, a form of care: a practice that pauses, observes and reconstructs. For seven years, she was part of Casa B, a cultural space in the Belén neighbourhood of Bogotá, where she promoted editorial, community and local memory projects. According to the Guna, ‘There are no empty spaces in the jungle,’ because everything is interconnected in the universe. This vision is reflected in their visual production, especially in the molas, where figure and background establish a constant dialogue, as an analogy of their thinking and the way they inhabit and perceive their territory. Villamil's work is a conceptual exploration based on the philosophy of the Guna indigenous community, particularly its vision of universal interconnection.

"By eliminating the spaces between words, I transform the phrase into a continuous sequence. With this linguistic and visual gesture, I attempt to materialise the interconnection referred to in Guna philosophy." Empty spaces are an illusion.

19/10/2025

Tracce in-eterne

Micaela Sollecito, born in Savona in 1966, lives and works in Milan. After graduating from the Arturo Martini School of Art, she moved to Rome to obtain her diploma from the Rosanna Pistolese Academy of Fashion and Costume Design. Upon her return to Liguria, she began creating her own collection of bespoke clothing. After a few years in Genoa, she opened a space in collaboration with other artists and continued to create clothing. At the same time, she began working for the theatre, creating costumes for shows, and thus her ‘Donne di Vetro’ collection was born, consisting of accessories and artistic jewellery in cast glass, which is distributed in Italy and abroad. Since 2000, her work in Milan has intensified, achieving greater dissemination. She collaborates with various contemporary theatre and opera companies in Italy and abroad. Her jewellery has been featured in various magazines and TV programs, as well as being highly appreciated by celebrities in the entertainment industry. In 2020, she began this long-planned project, which involves the collaboration of several artists to create unique and personalised pieces. A dress is no longer simply something that covers, but something that is worn and expresses - just like the mola.

17/10/2025

Logotipo Biopacifico

Ricardo Castro Duque, born in Medellín on 23 September 1922 and deceased in Bogotá on 21 November 2016, was a Colombian architect and graphic designer. He graduated as an architect from the National University of Colombia in Bogotá and received an honorary degree in graphic design in 2002 from the Colombian College of Design, a university in Medellín, Antioquia. He also studied social anthropology due to his interest in pre-Columbian art. He was one of the first architects with a solid foundation to venture into the field of graphic design in the 1950s: he designed more than 400 logos for different companies, firms, and organisations! After winning the tender issued by the state entity, in 1994 and 1996 the Banco de la República launched the 200 and 1000 Colombian peso coins, respectively, with indigenous designs.

The artork chosen for Mola Arte Sin Frontera is an image from the Dicken Castro Collection of the Bogotá Archive, General Secretariat of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá, D.C. The motif evokes a mola depicting the relationship between flora and fauna, which represented the scope of this project and this institution.

16/10/2025

15/10/2025

Mensajera del Crepúsculo

In the first stage of her life, Giuliana Anzellini Fajardo trained in Literature and Modern Languages, worked as a teacher of Spanish and English Literature, and wrote books of short stories. Craftswoman and teacher of English and Italian as a second language. Education in humanities and experience with students of a wide range of ages and cultures. Creator of Tuttotumo, the Colombian brand renowned for its objects made from these wild and underutilised fruits (totumo and choca), which grow in various regions of Colombia, with the intention of opening up new horizons for low-income people who have easy access to them, as they are found in the backyards of any home, without the need to invest in their production or risk damaging the environment.

‘The Messenger of Twilight’ highlights the importance of the connection between the earthly and the spiritual. The moon, always imposing, eternal, mysterious and unattainable, inspires the bird, the beings of the universe to pause in an act of communion and serenity with nature, with the infinite, with the intangible, with the invisible but ever-present.

14/10/2025

Luigia Martelloni is a Roman artist with a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She has worked, lived and travelled in Europe, the United States and Central America. Her interest for native cultures and symbolism brought her to continuously research this theme across borders. She is an established artist, photographer, curator, director and her aesthetics reflect a deep exploration of the collective subconscious. Her work seeks to reveal hidden truths and establish an intimate connection with the viewer, emphasising the artistic process and the relationship between object and space. Martelloni currently lives between Los Angeles and Rome, where she continues her artistic exploration.

For Mola: Arte Sin Fronteras, she has chosen the magical design of the protective spiral. Protective molas fulfil this mission: to protect the wearer through symbols and colours full of meaning.

13/10/2025

MASFBO25

Weave, earrings

Francesca Mo is an architect and designer from Milan, she has been successfully working in designer jewellery for many years. Minimalism and Arte Povera form the basis of her “artistic alphabet”, complemented by her skill in balancing colours, shapes and materials.

"When the exhibition curator, Carla Brusa, first contacted me to illustrate a project on molas, a whole new world of colours, patterns and overlapping shapes opened up before me. In my opinion, molas are more than artistic artefacts: they embody a form of communication — between man and nature, between human beings themselves. Poems written with fabric."

Her Intrecci (Weave) Collection, first presented at the Galleria Subert in Milan in May 2014, where the inspirations ranged from 18th-century brocade scraps to classic fabrics, represented the perfect way to continue her research on textiles though the mola. On the other hand Mo also distilled their vivid chromatic essence into minimalist glass earrings (Ice collection), reimagining tradition from a contemporary perspective.

Mola: Arte Sin Frontera is on exhibit at Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotà until October 17th.

13/10/2025

Weave, earrings

Francesca Mo is an architect and designer from Milan, she has been successfully working in designer jewellery for many years. Minimalism and Arte Povera form the basis of her “artistic alphabet”, complemented by her skill in balancing colours, shapes and materials.

"When the exhibition curator, Carla Brusa, first contacted me to illustrate a project on molas, a whole new world of colours, patterns and overlapping shapes opened up before me. In my opinion, molas are more than artistic artefacts: they embody a form of communication — between man and nature, between human beings themselves. Poems written with fabric."

Her Intrecci (Weave) Collection, first presented at the Galleria Subert in Milan in May 2014, where the inspirations ranged from 18th-century brocade scraps to classic fabrics, represented the perfect way to continue her research on textiles though the mola. On the other hand Mo also distilled their vivid chromatic essence into minimalist glass earrings (Ice collection), reimagining tradition from a contemporary perspective.

Mola: Arte Sin Frontera is on exhibit at Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotà until October 17th.

12/10/2025

Madre Tierra

Pedro Ruiz Pedro Ruiz (born 1957, Bogotá, Colombia) is a prominent Colombian visual artist whose work focuses on the relationship between human beings, nature and Colombian identity. His work reflects a constant concern for the social, political and ecological issues affecting Colombia and the world.

His artistic career took off in Paris, where he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and specialised in printmaking at Atelier 17, since then his work has been exhibited in international shows at prestigious galleries and salons, and at the same time Ruiz has committed to explore new forms of artistic expression, combining painting, installation and educational projects such as ‘ORO VITAL’, a programme of artistic workshops that seeks to strengthen cultural and environmental identity in Colombian communities. In recognition of his impact on Colombian art, in 2010 he was awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In addition, in 2016 he was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, reflecting his commitment to art as a tool for social transformation. His ability to connect with the minds and hearts of the public through poetic and aesthetic language has established him as one of the most important figures in contemporary art in Colombia.

This work, part of the Manifiesta series, is a call to recognise the earth as the origin and sustenance of life.

11/10/2025

MASFBO25

11/10/2025

10/10/2025

Mundos de Obras Paralelas

Olga Sinclair was born in Panama City in 1957 and began her artistic career at a very early age under the tutelage of her father, the master Alfredo Sinclair Ballestero. After graduating, in 1976 she left for Madrid, Spain, where she studied fine arts at the School of Arts and Crafts. Upon her return to Panama, she enrolled at Santa Maria La Antigua University, where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design in 1984. Back in Europe, she pursued artistic research studies in London, then lived in Bolivia and Indonesia, where her daughters Natasha and Suzana were born.

Her paintings have been exhibited in shows in America, Europe, and Asia, among the most important of which was her retrospective at the Palazzo dei Medici in Florence, making her the first Latin American artist to exhibit at that venue.

Always concerned with social causes, particularly children's education, she created the OLGA SINCLAIR FOUNDATION, to encourage values such as respect and tolerance towards others in children. Through programs supporting artistic expression and a love of culture, the foundation reached over 90.000 children, to date.