Mauricio Gómez. With the left hand

At age 40, when he was a successful journalist, Mauricio Gómez (Bogotá, 1949) had to flee Colombia due to his strong position against the drug cartels. In U. S. A., he started to take painting lessons and, in 1992, he swapped careers to art and settled definitely in Paris. In 1999, when he had his first show in Bogotá, it was already clear that his work was not conventional. Soon after that, a painful disease to his right arm kept him from working. As a result, he started using different techniques, such as collage, and materials like pigments and rubber, until he had developed a whole new pictorial universe using his left hand. Through an interesting selection of his most recent work, this book aims at showing Mauricio Gómez's new plastic and human facet, which reveals him as a relentless fighter for whom art is the uttermost reason to live.