
Ancizar Marin
Colombian
Ancizar Marin is best known for playful ceramic, metal, and glass sculptures that are often posed in feats of climbing, jumping, diving, rappelling, and other acrobatics. Marin’s figures range from balletic humanoid forms to vibrantly dressed joggers, as well as elephants and schools of fish. Marin often exhibits his sculptures in groups, giving the effect of performance troupes or herds of wild animals; he also sometimes places them in public settings. Marin studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Luccio Petraglia School of Art, both in Colombia. He has exhibited in cities across the world, and his work is in multiple public and private collections.
Ancizar MarinWorks & Biography
Ancizar Marin follows the path of American artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist that became key figures in the Pop Art movement by moving away from traditional subjects to focus on mass-produced images from contemporary life. His work emphasizes joy through movement, color, and form, reflecting Matisse's belief that art should be uplifting, accessible, and free from troubling themes.
ANCIZAR MARIN Denise M. Gerson, Former Associate Director, Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Ancizar Marin's climber sculptures and installations, for which he is best known, composed of fiberglass and resin, and finished to a high gloss with car paint in a dazzling array of hues, continue to delight all who encounter them scaling walls, rapelling down windows, leaning against columns, and perching on lintels. Evoking teams of rock climbers, window washers, fish, birds and circus performers, suspended high above ground on screws or wires that are looped, lassoed, and threaded about them, engaged in gravity-defying feats, the active forms charm young and old, reminding one that art is not always intended to intellectually challenge viewers.
Ancizar Marin Climbers, Woman with Umbrella, fish installation, Money Art and Red Head.
Ancizar Marín’s Pollock Climbers —Exclusively at Aldo Castillo Gallery
Ancizar Marin, M&M, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 21H x 18W x 7D In.
Ancizar Marin, Tipsy Cat, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 13H x 8.5W x 11D In.
Ancizar Marin, Campbells Soup, Acrylic, Car Paint, Metal, 61H x 11.5D x 6 3/4W In.
Ancizar Marin, 24K Gold, Acrylic, Car Paint and Metal, 60H x 48W x 7D In.
Ancizar Marin, Child Playing with Bubbles, Metal, Car Paint, Fiberglass, Dimensions: 36H x 24W inches (dimensions may vary)
"Life is never easy, it requires effort. In order to keep going, smile and support each other." Ancizar Marin
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ANCIZAR MARIN Denise M. Gerson, Former Associate Director, Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Ancizar Marin's climber sculptures and installations, for which he is best known, composed of fiberglass and resin, and finished to a high gloss with car paint in a dazzling array of hues, continue to delight all who encounter them scaling walls, rapelling down windows, leaning against columns, and perching on lintels. Evoking teams of rock climbers, window washers, fish, birds and circus performers, suspended high above ground on screws or wires that are looped, lassoed, and threaded about them, engaged in gravity-defying feats, the active forms charm young and old, reminding one that art is not always intended to intellectually challenge viewers. Indeed, Marin hopes that audiences will experience nothing more complicated than pleasure through movement, color, and form. His philosophy pays homage to the Matissean credo that art should be joyful, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, and appeal to everyone. Born in Colombia, Marin first received formal art training in the 1980s at the Bellas Artes Institute in Manizales, Colombia. He continued to study sculpture at the Luccio Petraglia School of Art in Bogota, where he honed his sculptural proficiency in bronze and steel. Later, South American travel exposed him to the rich melting pot of cultural influences that further informed his approaches to color and texture. Marin works now in South Florida, where his work has been featured in design magazines, gallery shows, and prestigious art fairs and private commissions continue to proliferate. That his figurative forms are relatively inexpensive encourages and allows collectors to purchase multiple sculptures at a time. For Marin, this achieves his desire to encourage the figures to engage with one another in dynamic groupings that can be arranged and rearranged at will. The shadows thrown off by the glossy little men and women, who alternately squat, leap, lunge, stretch, and perform arabesques, further energize the walls against which they are installed, so that the spatial sum of the parts far exceeds the individual sculptural components. Ancizar Marin is represented by the Aldo Castillo Gallery.
Ancizar Marín, La Escultura Ingrávida y la Dinamicidad Joan Lluís Montané -De la Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA) -. Escaladores, peces de colores, el mar, la montaña, la naturaleza, el espacio, el vacío, el agua, el vacío de nuevo, el silencio, la montaña, otra vez el silencio, el mar, los peces, el movimiento y la dinamicidad. El viento en el rostro, el agua inundándolo todo. Cuerpos en el aire, suspendidos, libres, sin ataduras. Los peces nadando libres, oscilando, esquivando plantas acuáticas, siendo uno con el líquido elemento. El escultor colombiano posee una obra llena de color, buscando expresar alegría, bondad, dinamismo, movimiento, gracia, sutileza, expresividad de las figuras que se mueven de forma constante. El movimiento es una de las características de su obra porque transmite alegría y determinación gestual. Los peces formando círculos, en cilindros, indagando, maniobrando, permitiéndose equilibrios gestuales en un entorno controlado. Movimiento, dinamismo, sesgo, gesto, libertad. Los escaladores en la montaña, cordadas, cuerdas, rapel, fuerza, expresividad, movimiento, dinamicidad. La idea de la libertad subyace en toda su obra. Una libertad que permite que todo cobre vida, que exista la alegría y la bondad. Su obra está llena de vida, forma parte de la existencia, está constituida por todo lo que se necesita para lograr la felicidad: alegría, bondad, dinamicidad, libertad, recompensa, gracia, fuerza, expresividad de las ideas. Todas sus figuras, todos los elementos están al servicio de la ingravidez, de los movimientos en el aire y en el agua. Era de acuario, era de la libertad y el cambio. Ancizar Marín, ama la escultura, se llena de ella, y quiere transmitir esa alegría a los demás, para que también se impregnen de su espíritu. Experimentador nato, trabaja en bronce, resinas, fibra de vidrio y otros materiales. Vinculado a Botero y Liliany, su creación posee la expresividad de quien profundiza en las posibilidades resituacionistas de lo que realiza, yendo más allá de la anécdota para profundizar en el concepto, partiendo de la realidad, para situarse en un estadio donde lo más importante es conseguir transmitir esa idea de libertad que a todos nos gusta porque no entiende de banderas.
Artist statement
Art should be joyful, devoid of troubling subject matter. My sculptures celebrate movement, color, and the human spirit.
Works

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Wall Metal Structure with Climbers
2023, Metal, Plastic, Car Paint, 30 × 38 × 3 in
$9,500

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Tree of Life
2024, Metal, Plastic, Car Paint, 65 × 24 × 9 in
$12,500

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Tipsy Cat
2025, Fiberglass, car paint, 13 × 8 1/2 × 11 in
$2,750

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Square Wall Metal Structure with Climbers
2024, Metal and Fiberglass Painted with Car Paint, 30 × 38 × 3 in
$8,500

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Money Tree Donald Duck
2023, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 32 × 10 × 7 in
$3,100

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Frenchie
2026, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 13 × 13 × 8 in
$1,200

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Fish Installation III
2022, Acrylic, Paint Can, Fiberglass and Car Paint, 53 × 7 × 7 in
$2,350

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Chain With Climbers
2024, Acrylic, Car Paint & Metal, 80 × 5 × 4 in
$2,750

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Campbell's Frog
2024, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 21 × 8 × 8 in
$4,200

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Campbell's Bunny. Yellow or Gray
2024, Car Paint on Fiberglass, 21 × 8 × 8 in
$4,200

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Butterflies Bed
2026, Empty Matres, Painted Acrylic butterflies, 31 × 66 × 6 in
$11,500

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Birds Installation with Paint Can
2024, Fiberglass painted with Car Paint, 60 × 40 × 8 in
$4,900