In homage to Sol Andino and music that keeps people in their hands

By: Oswaldo Andrade Flórez


Knowing this character born in a feverish Samaniego November 1967 who writes this tribute to the constant clamor turned into humility, is one of the most satisfying pleasures that true friendship can bestow.

Owner of an honest look, a face without a smile of complex and eternal child who refuses to leave his world and his memories, always ready to leave tattooed on the other a good time, that is Darwin Cordoba, who learned with friends childhood in the village of San Juan distant two miles from town in the municipality of Samaniego to rejoice the cool of the river San Juan Pascual in a torrential cooing sounds and colors.

In his San Juan del soul where he spent childhood and adolescence quiet, feels the call of art, due in the festivities of San Martin, the apostle of the helpless to be held in August invites you to experience the charm of Mad Cow and castles fireworks at beat of the band, nourish your spirit and mind are full of reasons for applying to the canvas that laugh that never sleeps, it gets in the verb and the metaphor as being happy without fainting, it is.

Amidst the fragrance itself a noble land for plowing and rich landscape where the track left cueche his horizon, this artist began to draw empirical proud history of life.

Early drawings were the heroes of the homeland in exchange for a few cents, were set out in the notebooks of his classmates, then came other orders such as school boards.

Back in high school in the Bar of Simón Bolívar, his talent was rewarded with the design of several murals inspired by everyday life of people in life, work and people. In 1986 he was named to the scenery Parallel Departmental bands contest. There the musician and his instruments were beautifully interpreted by the brush of this good man.



Immersed in figurative art as an accomplice and taking initial teacher Galo Moreno, who in 1985, opens the doors to the world of painting, our character is struck by the work of Leonardo Da Vinci and Salvador Dali, whom removed their movements , color, texture and pictorial composition that characterizes and then connect with the thoughts and feelings reflected in the mirror of pastuso Homero Aguilar, who saves a beautiful friendship and deep respect.

Concerned by the paint and ready to make his mark in his native Samaniego, Darwin Carlos Cordoba with its sense of solidarity, take the way in 1986 to motivate youth samanieguense attachment for the arts under the direction of the cries of celebration each summer in August Nariño is taken and welcomes all with the same racket. There is then the first group exhibition of local artists in the library "Fireflies," with positive comments from locals and visitors. In 1987 he received honorable mention for their participation in the fair pictorial science INEM Pasto.

A prolonged absence from the halls of art, takes refuge in painting custom made for your family and friends in 2007 when gotten in the way of hyper-realism, social sensitivity lets flow to fund the Workshop Cultural "Cururo" whose web of illusions intended to catch the artists of the region in a large room that receives satisfactory critical for the quality of participants and fortunately continues to further open proudly displaying the artistic potential that prevails in Nariño.

From his extensive work among nude, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, Darwin Carlos Cordoba has been drunk every sip the moments that you share every day friends like Homer Buesaquillo Jairo Aguilar, who with respect and admiration you show new movements and trends which students learn applied, the combines and becomes yours for all to enjoy.

His strokes started and pointed in the gesture and the dynamics of music and people, leave this artist in a privileged place for wind instruments with which a child has had contact in Samaniego, are their daily bread.

10 works from the series "Soles and Winds," us into an exquisite symphony where the instrument comes to life in a world without conditions or rancor. In this production dreams come to light without complex children are left to admire the sum contemplation of ecstasy who rose to the sound of music and her marriage to the man.

"Maestra Vida" is another series by this artist in tribute to the "oldies" and which is dedicated to portraying them in their daily lives, reflecting their poverty their loneliness and anguish.

In the last international meeting of Andean cultures, Darwin Carlos Cordova participated with more than 80 artists from the region being selected among the 30 most recognized and hung his "Sol Andino" deserving recognition and support of dedicated art critics.

This frustrated musician, apprentice flute, made the artist in a lively, pretty, party-loving, good people who inspired by its landscape, its climate and its color has a clear message to young painters like the dream of a better world is constantly working on what one likes, goals and fulfill forge does not matter if you are professional or not but work with discipline should be the watchword.

The road is laid out for this young artist, proud of his roots and who through a social process, make peace with himself and his brothers to continue painting the much needed revelers cries do to this troubled country.