Beatriz González - guerra y paz: una poética del gesto = Beatriz González - war and peace : a poetics of gesture

Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1932) is one of Latin Americas most renowned living painters on the contemporary art circuit, and a key point of reference in her countrys culture. War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture is an original survey of Beatriz Gonzálezs work. Since 1962, González has u...

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Format: Book
Language:Spanish
English
Published: Ciudad de México MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM 2023
Edition:Primera edición
Series:Folio MUAC 104
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Summary:Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1932) is one of Latin Americas most renowned living painters on the contemporary art circuit, and a key point of reference in her countrys culture. War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture is an original survey of Beatriz Gonzálezs work. Since 1962, González has used painting as a means of appropriating and interpreting preexisting images from Western painting, popular culture, and photojournalism. Beginning in the 1980s, her works commented increasingly on public life and violence in Colombia. González is also an art historian, cultural critic, museologist, the author of several books, and a point of reference in the educations of many recent Colombian artists.The exhibition presented at the MUAC differs radically from recent retrospectives of the artists work in Europe and the United States: this is not simply a retrospective of the career of a South American Pop artist, but also a review of Gonzálezs methods for exploring the communicative power of figure. The exhibition features series of works that the artist took from photojournalistic images and developed into paintings, drawings, prints, and public works. In each such work, Beatriz González refines a bodily gesture in order to produce a deep expression of empathy and human understanding.
Item Description:Impressum: Publicado con motivo de la exposición "Beatriz González. Guerra y paz: una poética del gesto" (25 de noviembre al 28 de junio de 2024) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México; (5 de octubre de 2024 al 2 de marzo de 2025) De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Physical Description:167 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9786073082266
6073082266

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