Rómulo Rozo

He participated in the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville, Spain, where he won the Big Prize and the Medal of Gold, before returning to the Americas.

[1] In 1925, Rozo made one of his most renowned works, the Bachué goddess generatriz of the chibchas, a granite sculpture inspired by Colombian and pre-Columbian mythology.

[3][4][5] The continuity of this influence among the sculptors of this generation (such as Luis Alberto Acuña, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Pedro Nel Gómez, Ramón Barba, José Domingo Rodríguez, Hena Rodríguez, Miguel Sopó and Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt) signal the Bachué as the foundational sculpture of modern art in Colombia.

Rozo reformed Spanish architect José Granados's original idea, which did allusion to a baroque church, turning it instead into a temple with an ornamental reference to the Chibchas gods of the Colombian prehispanic territory.

Around it, Rozo created figures in plaster and concrete, with clear referents to the cultures of Tolima, Saint Agustín, Muiscas and the Mayas.