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Sep 11, 2020 · Through meticulously detailed drawings of the Colombian Amazon, Abel Rodríguez preserves the indigenous knowledge of the region’s flora and fauna. The ecological wisdom documented in his works was passed down to him from his adopted Muinane elders, as well as the tribe of his birth, the Nonuya.
Apr 22, 2024 · Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal species that inhabit his native La Chorrera.
Apr 8, 2020 · Abel Rodríguez ’s highly detailed drawings of the Amazon rainforest have long been valued by Western botanists. In recent years, however, as the fragility of the natural world grows in the public consciousness, their extraordinary beauty has also garnered the attention of the art world.
Jun 20, 2023 · Abel Rodríguez is an elder visual artist of the Nonuya people and a deep connoisseur of plants and ecological systems of the Amazon Basin. He was born in 1944 in Cahuinarí, in the Colombian Amazon, and has been living in Bogotá since the 2000s.
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Abel Rodríguez was born Mogaje Guihu in the Putumayo Department of Colombia and trained as a botanical expert amongst the Nonuya, one of several Amazonian ethnic groups. The works exhibited in the Biennale Arte are characteristic of Rodríguez’s recent production.
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Jun 5, 2022 · Abel Rodríguez is a Nonuya Elder who translates his encyclopedic knowledge of plants and trees in his homeland, the Igara Paraná River region of the Amazon, into highly detailed drawings, writings, and books.
