Hello, I'm Francisco L.

Francisco Landazábal was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia in 1969. He grew up in Cartagena, a fortress of Spanish colonization, famous worldwide for its historical wealth and natural beauty. In that place full of magic, where the tropics express all its strength and contradiction, he spent his childhood, in front of the sea, the noise of the local people and the exuberant colors of the Caribbean. He studies at the school of fine arts in Cartagena and then goes through the workshop of a French artist who had settled in the city. His further studies in philosophy, and the rational component of the aesthetic phenomenon, gave him a much bigger conviction to see art as a serious and structured profession; where respect for a purist technique and the viewer, are fundamental principles in his works from that time.