Francisco
Vargas
Francisco Vargas - Visual Artist / Mathematician
I am a visual artist, currently working in the rural area of Villa de Leyva (Colombia). My artistic production has developed over 25 years alongside my academic studies and work as a mathematician where my research has focused on the interactions between logic, the philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.
Academic Background
2020
PhD in Mathematics Education (Summa cum laude). Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany). Thesis: Intensional and extensional reasoning: Implications for Mathematics Education (Summa cum Laude).
2005
Master of Science in Mathematics. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Thesis: Cuantificadores generalizados y formas de compacidad.
2000
Mathematician. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Thesis: Axiomas de Forcing. Meritorious Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2000.
1995
Diploma in Italian Secondary Education (Maturitá Scientifica). 60/60
Artistic training
2001
2001
1996
1991-1993
1991
1983
Engraving course, Margarita Monsalve's workshop.
Engraving course, Academia de artes Guerrero
Ceramic studies, Maria Teresa Hoyos' workshop
Painting studies, Harvey Rendón's workshop.
Course in metal engraving, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo.
Drawing studies, David Manzur's workshop.
Solo and group exhibitions (selection)
2024
Estratificaciones (solo exhibition), Palacio de Servicios Culturales, Tunja, Colombia.
2023
Quinto Salón de Artes Plásticas y Visuales de Villa de Leyva. (Honorable mention)
2023
Paisajes interiores (solo exhibition) Galería Perez Rojas, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.
2023
Re-vuelta a lo humano, Óleos de Francisco Vargas (solo exhibition), Museo Antonio Nariño, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.
2022
2022
Cuarto Salón de Artes Plásticas y Visuales de Villa de Leyva
Dante-deconstrucciones, Societá Dante Alighieri-Bogotá.
2022
Arte Castilla, Hacienda Castilla, Pereira.
2022
Arte y Vihda (Honorable mention), Relato Bookshop and Cultural Centre,Villa de Leyva.
2021
Tercer Salón de Artes Plásticas y Visuales de Villa de Leyva
2011
Sedimentaciones y disoluciones (solo exhibition)- Societá Dante Alighieri-Bogotá
2002
Acuarelas de Francisco Vargas (solo exhibition), Casa de la cultura de Cajicá
2002
2001
1993
25 acuarelas y una idea (solo exhibition), Societá Dante Alighieri-Bogotá.
Grabados de Francisco Vargas (solo exhibition), Societá Dante Alighieri-Bogotá.
Primavera en Cajicá- Casa de la Cultura-Cajicá.
Publications (Selection)
Vargas, F. (2023), Estratificaciones/Stratifications. Paintings catalog with a preface of Fernando Zalamea. Bogotá.
Vargas, F., Martignon, L. & Stenning, K. (2023). Bounded rationality: from fast and frugal heuristics to logic programming and back. Mind and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-023-00293-3
Vargas, F. (2022). 2 A Full Model for Peirce’s Continuum. In F. Zalamea (Ed.), Advances in Peircean Mathematics: The Colombian School (pp. 55-104). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717631-002
Vargas, F., & Moore, M. E. (2021) The Peircean Continuum. In: The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives (Shapiro, S. and Hellman, G. eds.) Oxford University Press.
Vargas, F., & Stenning, K. (2020). Communication, goals, and counterexamples in syllogistic reasoning. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00028
Vargas, F. (2013), Aritmología, infinito y trascendencia: hacia el lugar de las matemáticas en la filosofía de Pavel Florenski. In F. Zalamea (Ed.), Rondas en Sais, ensayos sobre matemáticas y cultura contemporánea (pp. 61-79). Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.