AYCOOBO( WILSON RODRÍGUEZ)
Aycoobo( Wilson Rodríguez)( b. 1967, La Chorrera, Colombia) is the heir of an artistic tradition and body of ancestral wisdom gleaned from his father, Abel Rodríguez, a renowned artist and keeper of traditional wisdom of the Nonuya people. This passing on of knowledge did not take place in a conventional academic setting but through oral and experiential teaching deeply grounded in the Amazonian worldview. From an early age, Aycoobo accompanied his father on walks through the forest, learning the plants, ecological cycles, and mythical accounts central to an alternative universe that increasingly permeates Western consciousness.
What began as a learning process evolved into a body of work with a distinct language of its own. Aycoobo’ s paintings are enriched with visionary components revealed to him through the ingestion of sacred plants. His works are rich in vibrant colors and are shaped by intuition and imagination that transcends the tangible world. For Aycoobo, ayahuasca is a pathway to the inner self, a portal to invisible dimensions.
Calendario( Calendar)( 2025) challenges the concept of linear time and proposes an Amazonian worldview of interspecies relationships and cultivation of the chagra— the Nonuya community’ s living garden. Instead of dates and numbers, Aycoobo charts cycles of growth and flowering, rain, birdsong, and fish reproduction to reveal a circular, living temporality.
( MARÍA WILLS)
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