Carlos Tobón is a Colombian artist known for creating Contemporary Abstract painting. Born in Colombia on February 27, 1966. He attended at Ferrini Collegefor several years in his youth, and then he started to pursue his artist career at Institute of Art“Eladio Vélez” in Itagüí, Antioquia.
Tobón’s artwork in these early years was inspired by Pre-Colombian and Greek art. Also, influential were the works of his artist idols, at the time, Alejandro Obregón and Omar Rayo.
Carlos Tobón left the Institute of Art and moved to Cali, Valle, where start to work and business, and later he moved to live in New Jersey, United States where started to study English as a Second Language, and later begin to study his Associate in Fine Arts at CCM, County College of Morris, in Randolph, New Jersey. Also he is going to transfer to Kean University to persue his Bachelor Degree in
studio Fine Arts and a Minor in History Art.
Tobón is above all, a painter. His compositions are usually divided horizontally in two areas of different pictorial value or size, but of equal visual intensity. Other elements take their place against them. Color play a fundamental role in integrating the structures of his ingenious designs, first in geometric forms and them in controlled expressionism and abstraction. His subject remind the viewer of loyalty, friendship and memory, and ultimately of the modern of life, however insignificant it may seem in terms of the cosmos.
His travels have provided him knowledge and enrichment of culture and museums throughout the world making him to achieve his art career. Some of the museums are: Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Museum, Italy. Musee Du Louvre in Paris, France. National Museum in Tokyo, Japan. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. Dubai Museum, and Abu Dhabi Zayed Museum in Arab Emirates. The Museum of Moscow and Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Egypt, and so on.
Carlos Tobón lives in Parsippany, New Jersey, his home is located adjacent to the Parsippany Lake, which is an inspiration for many pieces in his collections.