Amazon Forest Museum: Tour with Carlos Rodríguez | Thickets Exhibition | Explora Park
How was an Amazon museum created with people from the region? Uitoto biologists and watercolorists, Nonuya draftsmen and scholars, wood carvers, forest correspondents in Araracuara, Peña Roja and Villazul, Puerto Córdoba and Puerto Santander…
Enjoy this guided tour of the Amazonian works in the Espenuras exhibition, led by its driving force, biologist and director of the Tropenbos Foundation, Carlos Rodríguez, a promoter of local and academic research, communication, and art.
Inventories of aromatic woods from the chagras, illustrated ecologies of large catfish made by Uitotos, subiendas painted from memory by artists from La Mar Dulce, schools of fish climbing chorros and cananguchales, carved fish—200 worlds of handmade water—watercolors from the times of the worm, drawings of the caimo and the animals that visit them every night…
What work did Enrique Hernández Macuritofe, a Uitoto (Muina), create about the fish of the Araracuara? What album did he paint of the Amazon basin, one of the most diverse on the planet with more than 2,700 species of freshwater fish?
Why is the Uitoto biologist Confucio Hernández, today a reference for ichthyologists around the world, a master of watercolor? How did he paint the cycles of the caimo and the more than 400 ecological relationships of this beautiful tree?
What knowledge did the fisherman Luis Ángel Trujillo contribute to science from Caqueta? How did he identify 63 species of fish vital to the diet of the piraiba, the great catfish, while biologists had only identified 17?
Why are some of the drawn studies of more than 400 trees made by the Nonuya artist and scholar Abel Rodríguez displayed in museums like MoMA today? How did he document the plants cultivated by "the people of the center" in that school that is CHAGRA?
This tour is part of the ESPESURAS program, Inhabiting a Wounded World, an exhibition organized by Parque Explora and Museo La Tertulia in Cali.
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