Born in Barcelona to a Colombian father, Alejandro Obregon moved to Barranquilla at a very young age. Through his art he had an impact on important artists such as Botero, Lucy Tejada and Cecilia Porras, as well as the Argentine art critic Marta Traba who considered him the first modern Colombian artist. Using a visual language hovering between the figurative and the abstract, Obregón created still lifes and portraits, but was also interested in a unique approach to the landscape where Nature was the central theme of his forceful, vital painting which was endowed with an ‘organic energy’.
