The new cloud painter
Carlos Nariño, born in Bogota in 1957, is a painter trained at the School of Fine Arts in Bogota and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked at the Louvre as a restorer of works by masters, notably those of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.
Carlos Nariño has exhibited in numerous galleries and fairs in France, Colombia and the United States. His works are part of several public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, which considers him “the new painter of clouds”.
Specializing in the depiction of landscapes and skies, he is particularly recognized for his majestic large-scale works that powerfully capture the magnificent immensity of this genre. Carlos Nariño offers in his oil paintings a sensation of immensity and freedom, inviting you to dream, fly and play with the clouds.
Living for more than 35 years in Paris and regularly setting up his easel in Switzerland, Carlos Nariño is one of those rare painters who perpetuate the tradition of representing skies. Few contemporary artists have mastered to this level of perfection the sense of aesthetics and composition for this form of expression.
His paintings presented in the exhibition “Painting the Sky” are a poetic homage to the landscapes of the Riviera and the Swiss mountains.
Carlos Nariño is represented in Europe by Millennium Art Gallery.
