![]() ![]() Her canvases are the product of a fusion between the western world and the Guatemalan context: different techniques, visions and ways of thinking combine through paint, canvas and nature. Her work can be seen as a link between two cultures. From this point on, nature would intervene like a co-author in her works, which straddle the introspection inside her studio and the outside, permeated by wind, rain, mud and even small organisms from the surrounding jungle. This relationship became more organic and procedural after Hurricane Stan, in 2005, and Hurricane Agatha, in 2010, with many of her pictures becoming mud-soddened, giving rise to pictorial series completed through the randomness of nature. Suter approaches abstract painting and artistic improvisation through the natural environment surroundings: her unframed canvases - or rather mantas - show painted forms that reference natural shapes, such as treetops, volcanic peaks or watery surfaces. Since then, her work has evolved in an ever-closer exchange with the natural environment, reflected in frameless colourist canvases that flow profoundly with the tropical landscape immersing her place of work. In 1982 she installed her studio and home at Panajachel, on the land of an old coffee plantation surrounding Lake Atitlán, in the Guatemalan jungle. Organized by Museo Reina Sofía, the exhibition will show nearly 500 paintings, from her pieces made on paper in the 80s to very recent work produced at her workshop in Panajachel, in the Guatemalan jungle.Īcross her career, Suter has never strayed too far from the Basel art scene, the city that was her home between 19, where she studied and where she started to create her first works in the late 1960s. The Palacio de Velázquez in Retiro Park will host from 25 June 2021 to an exhibition devoted to Argentinian-Swiss artist Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949). Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ©Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ![]() Venue: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain ![]()
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