Beatriz González. Guerra y paz: una poética del gesto
Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1932) is one of Latin America’s most renowned living painters in the contemporary art world, and a key point of reference in her country’s culture. She first started earning a reputation in the 1960s with paintings that appropriated images both from the history of art and from her everyday surroundings, thereby challenging the use of commercial icons that characterized Pop art in the United States. Her renown grew in the 1970s when she produced pieces of furniture that ironically incorporated motifs from the history of art into a less rarefied local vocabulary.
Over the last fifty years, González has oriented herself toward creating a critical iconography of Colombia’s successive alternation between cycles of political comedy and social tragedy. War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture offers an original survey of Beatriz González’s body of work. This is the painter’s first solo exhibition in Mexico, comprising both an overview of her work and an original study of her approach to figure and gestures as vehicles for conveying emotion.
- Authors
- Natalia Gutiérrez Montes, Cuauhtémoc Medina
- Editor
- MUAC, UNAM
- Language
- Spanish & English
- Format
- 22 x 16 cm
- Edition
- 2023
- Extension
- 168 p.
- Price
- $400
- ISBN UNAM
- 978-607-30-8226-6
