Since the nineties, Tulio Vergara has worked with wood, making an abstract and neat proposal with wise constraints. Sculptor and psychologist, he addresses organic shapes to interweave biomorphic elements of his design that refer to pulsating organisms.

His work exposes the material and its hues, using wood veins as ingredients of unique chromatism. In his sculptures, wood plays the lead role in a particular way and places its physical and expressive properties at the center of an argumentation apparently abstract but that refers to a wide range of themes from oppressive spaces to conflicted overcrowding to internal voids. His art points out to physical and moral violence perceived in the context of conflict where this work has been built.

Indeed, the works have the appearance of a neat and well treated surface. They are sculptures assembled and disassembled in an intelligent network of refined carpentry. However, they challenge their physical qualities and begin to act in the land of meanings, collecting with them many concerns and tensions of their surrounding native environment.

Assuming a long tradition, Tulio Vergara redeems the nature of craft and makes of it a significant event, giving to his art a successful contemporaneity.

Miguel Gonzalez, curator of the modern art Museum La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia