Education:

• School of Fine Arts, University of Nariño. San Juan de Pasto.
• UNESCO Educational Technology and National educational. Bogota.

Charges:

• Drawing school teacher Nariño University
• Industrial arts teacher, high school Nariño University
• Director Colleges of arts workers' federation Nariño
• Professor and Head of aesthetic education in the grass INEM

COLLECTIONS

Works by Luis Benavides Bastidas, are in private collections in Colombia and abroad, among which are:

• Pinacoteca Banco de la Republica de Colombia
• National Museum of Colombia
• Larry Stock frebrert, Mich. U.S. m
• J. Collection Mariscal. Caracas Venezuela.
• Authors Sala Nariño. U. Nariño.
• Ralph Bates Collection. Gainesville. Florida. used.
• Carl Ericsson collection. United States
• Collection Miguel Angel Asturias. Novel Award. Guatemala
• Magnano collection. U.S.
• TA Stock Grossmann. Denver. Colorado. U.S.
• Paolo Stock Fournier. France.
• Voolgm kristner Stock. Belgium.
• Museum of Contemporary Art. Bogota. Colombia
• Caja Agraria collection. Bogota. Colombia.
• Gobernación de Nariño collection. Pasto. Colombia.
• 45 solo and group exhibitions.
• 10 first prizes in regional competitions.
• 3 First Prizes National Competition organized by the Ministry of Education.
• "Liberty Campaign." Bogota Colombia.

EXHIBITIONS.

• 1958. Sociedad de Amigos del Pais. (Bogota).
• 1958. Exhibition of Artists of America. (Panama).
• 1958. National Salon of Artists. Colombia.
• 1959. National Museum. Bogota.
• 1959. National Salon of Artists. Colombia.
• 1959. Hispanic Painters (Israel).
• 1960. National Salon of Artists. Colombia.
• Biblioteca Nacional (Bogota).
• 1966. XVIII. Salon of Colombian artists. Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango Bogota.
• 1972. Visual Arts Exhibition. Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Bottle. House of Culture in Pasto and the University of Nariño Pasto.
• 1972. "Bastidas: 1 ª. Exhibition at the Casa de la Cultura de Pasto "Special Guest.
• 1973. International Building Mart (United States).
• 1973. Gregorio Vásquez room. National Library, Bogota.
• 1973. Instituto Colombiano de Cultura. 14 Young Colombian Artists. Invited to Bogota.
• 1974. Philadelphia (USA).
• 1979. First Collective Painting. Pasto Gallery.
• 1980. Pictorial displays FIFCE Ecuadorian Colombo. Pasto.
• 1982. Museum of Contemporary Art. Alzate Avendano Foundation. Bogota.
• 1982. V Bienal de la Candelaria. Bogota. Guest.
• 1983. X Art Salon. Casa de la Cultura. Bicentenary of the Birth of Simon Bolivar. In the play "The Glory of Pasto Bolívar"
• 1984. Skandia Center. Bogota.
• 1986. Banco de la Republica. Travelling Exhibition. Artists of Nariño.
• 1988. Chamber of Commerce. North 12 Colombian artists. Bogota living museum.
• 1990. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Tulcán - Ecuador.
• 1992. Daniel Reyes Institute. Ibarra Ecuador.
• 1992. Nice downtown Bogota BCH.
• 1993. Nice Gallery BCH Pasto.
• 1994. Casa de la Cultura. Pasto.
• 1994. Art in Colombo Frontera Ecuatoriana. Banco de la Republica Ipiales.
• 1996. Gallery Santacruz. Pasto.
• 1997. Centro Cultural Andino. Pasto.
• 2000. Painting Exhibition. Túquerres Nariño.
• 2000. Guest Teachers exposure. Faculty of Arts University of Nariño. Pasto.
• 2001. Group Exhibition of Figurative Art. Palatino cultural center. Pasto.
• 2002. Questioning Modernity. Three Generations of Artists Nariño. Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Guest. Bogota.
• 2003. Painters Nariño. Guest. COMEV Commemorate Pasto.
• 2003. Art Exhibition Nariño. Guest FENALCO National Congress. Pasto.
• 2004. Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition Colombians. Invited by the University of Nariño to commemorate its 100 year anniversary.
• 2005. Exposure. Faculty of Arts University of Nariño. Pasto.

AWARDS

• 1954. Thesis Battle of Bottle. " Laureate and acquired by the University of Nariño.
• 1954. Mention "Clarin." National Design Competition. Bogotá.
• 1954. Selected International Contest "Paris Symphony." Six first prizes School of Fine Arts University of Nariño.
• 1957. First Prize in Painting. University of Nariño Teachers Competition.
• 1985. First Prize in Painting. Alumni Fine Arts Competition University of Nariño.
• 1959. First Prize II Artists Hall of Nariño. Pasto.
• 1961. Hall IV First Prize Artists Nariño. Pasto.
• 1962. First Prize in Painting. University Week. Pasto.
• 1965. Selected finalist in the National Hall Croydon II. Cali.
• 1966. First Prize III International Exhibition Fair. Pasto.
• 1970. Three first prizes. National Competition "Liberty Campaign" with arts education programs to medium. Ministry of Education. Bogota.
• 1970. Award "new freedom" Ministry of Education National President of the Republic of Colombia. Palacio de San Carlos. Bogota.
• 1970. Dictionary of Colombian artists. 1 ª Edición.
• 1998. In Resolution 569, the Chamber of Commerce awarded the Decoration Pasto HANDS LEADERS. "

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 1953. Honorable Mention. First Seminar of the University of Colombia.
• 1968. Contemporary Artists catalog. National Museum of Colombia. With his "Funeral" No 2220.
• 1980. Become a part of the Pinacoteca of the Bank of the Republic in his book "Birth of an Idol." Bogota Colombia.
• 1991. AMERICA EDITORIAL SA of Panama. Republic of Panama includes your name in the second Volume "15000 new Mini biographies. Compendium updated most notable historical figures who have contributed to society and world culture.
• 1999. Recognition "MASTER TEACHER" Government Decree 768 of Narino.
• Decorated by the President of the Republic. Dr. Carlos Lleras Restrepo in 1970 with the Medal "new freedom".
• Recognition by the Chamber of Commerce of Pasto in 1998 with the Medal "Hands Leaders."
• 2005. Recognition and Tribute TOURIST GUIDE AND BUSINESS NARIÑO.
• 2006. Resolution 007 Delivery of the "Order of Civil Merit Túquerres City" by the Honorable City Council Túquerres. May 20, 2006.
• Recognition "Master Teacher" by the Government of Nariño, by Decree No 768 of 1999.
• "Order of Civil Merit" City Túquerres. " Resolution No007 May 20, 2006.
• Mention Recognition of the Republic Senate, Resolution 144 of 2006.

COMMENTS

His works have been discussed by: The Century - Bogotá. Rafanan Felix Gomez - El Tiempo. Beatriz Quevedo and Nelly Vivas - the viewer. Martha Lock - Revista Semana. Dolly Mejia - Review Scraps. Gloria Valencia Diago - El Tiempo. Jorge Zalamea - Revista Semana. Correa and Peraza - Space - Bogotá. Jorge Moreno Clavijo - El Tiempo. Delgado and Brown - Cultural Page - Time. Diario del Sur - Challenge.

BASTIDAS LUIS BENAVIDES:

Oriented with full awareness among the topics social. Corresponds to a time when concern about the problems that lie with the poor for their fortune is a matter of deep concern.

Get by this issue, results of many plastics. With it cause so identified with leading American painters who have exploited this popular reef purely terrigenous. Have begun to reassess their own values. For this, the peasant and the wage paid are blood industrial painting. The feel in the most delicate fibers of your personality, delves into all his fine qualities of artistic temperament, to produce works of unusual force in our midst.

On another occasion we felt that the artist gives the most piteous cries of those who have seen pictorially. There is his strength. It combines online composition, color and theme with a great rhythm and harmony. All these elements are perhaps equally profound in their works.

Leaning from her childhood painting, do not waste the opportunity to participate in whatever contest for children, be organized and how he won several prizes donated by newspapers in the capital. Later, when his age allowed him, admission to art school, where he distinguished himself as one of the students increased capacity on the drawing and coloring, as well as a boundless imagination and capture the wonderful pictorial problems.

VIDAL RIVAS-magazine "Capital"

BASTIDAS LUIS BENAVIDES:

This is an artist who is defined site that pictorial scene it corresponds Colombiano.

The still lifes are hits composition and color that reveals the Bastidas desire to make a serious puncture, purified. Being studied figurative drawing, modeling the figures indicated in severe Luis Benavides Bastidas sense of responsibility and aspiration.

CLAVIJO MORENO "El Tiempo"

EXHIBITION HALL GREGORIO VASQUEZ - BOGOTA

In this second time he appears in the capital. Bastidas Luis Benavides offers a compendium of his best works made in the last period, expressionist. There are 18 oil paintings of not very large but with deep social meaning, since they have represented the spirit of a people with their jobs and suffering. Of first individual presentation of Bogota, the National Museum preserves a work of his FUNERAL. With the Sorceress and THE BIG DAY are the three most liked productions. The similarity to Orozco, Rivera and Mexican socialist painting that is seen in his works. It's just a coincidence sensitivity and appreciation of the environment.

DELGADO AND BROWN - Page Cultural "El Tiempo"

EXHIBITION "SOCIETY FRIENDS OF THE COUNTRY" - BOGOTA

The works of Luis Benavides Bastidas is a fact that is a real success not only for quality but for the social content, quake, psychological, poetic and technical that they represent in the national fine arts program.

ARTISTS SHOWS Nariño - Félix Gómez Raffa "El Tiempo"

THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK ....

BASTIDAS LUIS BENAVIDES

ART AND BEAUTY

The point of view characteristic of modern times is the overestimation of the individual, who is regarded as a central factor of each stage of history, and it is generally accepted that the power, depth and beauty are creations of the natural force of individual, therefore, the vital charm of art can be reflected in the impersonal character.

Bastidas Luis Benavides, approached from an angle of simplicity, simplicity, we might say, is an artist at his side senses the remnant of the genie.

Benavides Bastidas does not exist in the extravagance that is always associated with art, nor decorativism excess, nor less arrogance, trilogy very common in pseudo artists, voice recognition that the true artist creates beauty, and that it is approaching humility.

Benavides Bastidas works demonstrate is the author, the creator, the artist we say better, not romantic landscapes, where the green of the meadow, golden yellow, white wheat, rhyme with the beauty of a positive field of sunshine, a breath Eolo elusive encouraging a surge in the mature wheat field - in the words of a bard corny = no, beauty boxes Benavides Bastidas strength lies in its conception, in his creative will, the strength of the line, the fervor which gives the interpretation of the idea.

The painter is undoubtedly a poet: his palette imprisons and sings in the colorful, vibrates in the creation, as well, Benavides Bastidas, we could say it's a modernist poet, who does not use the rhythm or phrase to engrave the beauty, but the design aesthetics to create, his paintings GROUND BAD, VIOLENCE, PLENILUNIO, anxiety, loneliness and widows, have beauty that we call creative, aesthetic claw conceptionist embodied in the will, perhaps for many who ignore the advancement of the arts do not like, because they seek the aesthetic limited to the eye, forgetting that the principle of beauty is the creation, interpretation - in the vigorous lines of the pain of the inhospitable abniego arable lands, the sadness that permeates the soul Colombian bad governance . Also a full night of that pale sun, glacial, that his dying Aduna glows with nostalgia: that his paintings "Tierra Mala," "Violence" and "Full Moon" and the Benavides Bastidas pictorial power lies in the creative force, the force of the line, throughout all that comes to life way beauty, truth rules as if to interpret the response of the monk Sen-Zen Buddhist Nan - Shi, when one of his disciples asked him was the beauty;

Beauty - said the monk - is the norm of the day:

Benavides Bastidas is credited with the exhibit his paintings in Panama and Paris, the "Ville Llumiere" consagradota artists.

Edward Iller-Weekly News

EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS - series "LA WAR

I've seen the latest exhibition of artist Luis Narino Benavides Bastidas, our artist, and I left it completely shocked by the graphic, a little sick of their plasticity. When I use the word sick, I do not in any great style does not underestimate their strength of expression which is great. I refer to the subject of his latest exhibition, which is an overwhelming theme of realism testified and the worst for man. A luminous truth.

Bastidas plays the monster made wild and diabolical that the world lived a quarter of a century and which is antihuman and denial of the divinity small portion of God to man participated.

There are pictures that impact the spirit. There is an example in which from bottom of a dark and misty landscape like a curtain apocalyptic, Emerge the heir of radioactivity. Great biologists say that the descendants of the monsters will be radioactive.

Bastida use this tragic prophecy as a reason for one of his paintings, where the line has a wall spontaneous mobility and the monster is going to talk if you can speak at birth, or at least looks set to launch its howl of protest against generations who used the atom coma vehicle of destruction.

Bastidas painting is a lesson in humanity, there are concentration camps, anxiety and human anxiety, the quaking stealth ghettos of Germany, Poland and Hungary. It is an invitation to repentance. An invitation to peace by the terror of seeing and witnessing everything Bastidas teacher interprets pen in his paintings.

ARIAS FAUSTINO "Poet and Writer - Ed Southern Colombia.

PILLAMPIAR: REAL MAGIC

Bastidas Luis Benavides is an artist with a high social content, psychological and technical quake, for whom the drawing, but is central to the academic process is not merit in itself, but creates a new reality based interpretations of the things he looks, even to erase them. The line is a means to express, but not necessarily the starting point of a work.

The painting, although it should be a reflection of reality from reality itself, can not become a mere representation, but in an artist's point of view, because is an inspired painter. In his imagination seething thousand scenes. Choosing one of them and stamped on the canvas with a master, imprisoned the scene, singing and vibrating colorful creation.

With a tenacious work has been found and the last sene "PILLAMPIAR" which comes from the magical reality of peoples Narino, is a real breakthrough.

"Don Jacinto Lucero Estrella and Mayor Pillampiar" putative daughter Celestina Buendía municipality. " "The first record of Ritha, the rich girl." "The garden of the monastery." "Huamuco and poppies for an impossible dream", are some of the titles in the sene that the teacher gives us and which undoubtedly will make us think about reality, not just small towns Nariño, but of all small peoples of Latin America.

Miguel Garzon. Sociologist U. Nal. Director magazine "CHALLENGE."

Series PILLAMPIAR MUNICIPALITY "

One characteristic of the painter Luis Benavides Bastidas has been the constant search for authentic expression of our reality.

PILLAMPIAR the people born of your imagination and your brush is so far the result of his eponymous to do research in PILLAMPIAR masterfully combine form and content, composition, color magic, message, form a unity tanbien achieved, which transcends the limits of regionalism and is located in the plane of the general, universal. Perhaps, now more than ever, we can repeat with the poet Faustino Arias, BASTIDAS's painting is a lesson in humanity.

EDUARDO ZUNIGA ERASO. Universidad Complutense de Madrid - E.

PAINT BY LUIS BENAVIDES BASTIDAS

Been a long living space. The word in the pictorial language of Luis Bastidas is present, diversified in recent years as many accomplishments that reinforce the life is his art.

Work deliberately dense atmospheres, which wants to be strong until the last corner of its purpose. The imaginary is the essence of the proposed site, in unexpected compositions, people found in the inventive process discovering his final spot. Authorities also residents of these areas - context is absent, leaving visible in large plastic enclosures happy decisions where the air colondo situations offers us deep and silent, suddenly interrupted with a shout in white - black flowers on an empty cloth. There is no room for doubt. Proposal is said to style thick, solid, as if to answer the questions everyday and the unusual retention of the avant-garde routine learned in the academy near erotic - conceptualized and funded.

The color that moves the surface and saw the rhythmic, becomes fit, without acting as targets and as a pigment is sustaining element of the overall structure.

Tactile architectural frames. Subtle reliefs crystallized water points, as a testimony of life without course. Supported urban skin roughness in time. Here the walk take slow and quiet as a between - act in the coloristic exclamation emitted when the anatomy has been uncovered and now forecast view mirror that you paint.

In areas for human geometry, the arrangement of the components that concerted convergence of all the five cardinal points which are located mainly point and the computer center is the creative will to achieve a harmonious and steady consolidation.

In certain areas overlook: favelas, states of nature dampened by rain, object-based crystals and open spaces where they live Andean landscapes - Any day in the spring.

Where you can have your settlement this art? In what place of magic, of saints, realism Macondo, the caliche baroque - or the alchemy Terracotta may inhabit this painting?

Floristic rhythms in the wind still.

Andean maternity gesticulturales.

Telluric Soles broken into nostalgia mutants.

Textures undulating topography palpated and experiential advertising.

Space has for a human geometry.

Feminine body care season.

Missed reads printed papers.

Silent enclosures where they portend human references.

These arguments held in a forceful expression of transfigured, achieved solid line, purpose, and with the presence of all known resources Bastidas find or invent, produce an echo perennial found in any damn man this side of the world. Be a witness. Be a document.

Catalog Bank Republica - MANUEL ESTRADA

BASTIDAS LUIS BENAVIDES

The name of this painter Narino is so widely known within and outside the country, his career is marked by significant and frequent victories such that it is almost redundant any reference to his devoted responsibility.

Bastidas, always dissatisfied, always looking for new discoveries, today, authentic reality as far higher than the painting is produced in southern Colombia.

CATALOG - Exhibition Casa de la Cultura de Nariño.