Amarillismo is an installation based on a second hand vinyl collection complied by the artist in different Colombian cities, since 2008. The genre of this collection is “propaganda and art” relating to previous works by Diaz, and dealing with the thin limit between popular culture and massive brain washing.
This collection has the particularity of having been produced by different Colombia record companies, such as Discos Fuentes, Zeida, Sonolux, and Discomod. The national music industry started in the 1930’s and hit its peak between 50’s and 80’s. In the middle of the 80’s the interest virtually disappeared and left the music industry stars relying on narco-traffic money from Cali and Medellin in order to survive.
In 2011 Diaz presented at Galeria Santa Fe in Bogota “La flor caduca de la hermosura de su gloria”, a research about the relation between Colombian musicians and politicians between1970 and 1998. This piece was focused on the artist’s vinyl collection. From these works emerge “amarillismos” where a yellow Wall “sustains” records made by presidential candidates, ex Presidents, police singers, gerrillas, and comedians: all related by their connection with history and all that is looking for to be hidden and deleted.
