A Colombian artist based in Toulouse, I have been working with modelling clay as a contemporary medium since I was 7.
Introduced at the age of 7 to the mysteries of modelling clay for illustration and stop motion, Daniel Virgüez has since explored this material through his various travels and meetings with other professionals.
Today, he offers workshops for adults and teenagers to reconnect with this noble, malleable material and explore its contemporary uses.
Her workshops are designed as a space for research and experimentation around illustration and sculpture: bas-relief, volume, texture, colour applied to modelling clay.
Steps .
- 1990
First aid
Discovered modelling at the age of 7, in Colombia.
- 2010
Moving to Toulouse
ENSAV training, meeting the local artistic ecosystem.
- 2013
Guayabo Colectivo Foundation
An association dedicated to Latin American art in Toulouse.
- 2018
Pate Probleme
Eponymous series, first major exhibition.
- 2020
Weekly workshops
Launch of the Clay Dates in Place des Avions.
- 2023
Quai des Savoirs residence
Open to the general public, 300 participants in two months.
- 2026
GuayaMotion
Stop-motion collective, four short films produced.
Founded in 2013 in Toulouse, Guayabo Colectivo is an association under the law of 1901 sharing the artistic talent of Latin America, both its ancestral roots and its current identity.
It aims to generate encounters and exchanges with other continents and their cultures to create projects that promote mutual aid as an alternative to competition.
- —Respect for diversity
- —A passion for passing on knowledge
- —Developing playful and artistic aspects
- —Respect for the environment
- —Democratising culture
- —Art as a means of intercultural rapprochement
- —Passing on knowledge to promote tolerance
- —Solidarity to protect Latin American traditions
