BEATRIZ GONZALEZ – FOUNDATION OF MOURNING
2019-07-01The installation Zócalo del Duelo (Foundation of mourning) by the Columbian artist Beatriz González (*1938 Bucaramanga, Columbia; lives and works in Bogotá) will be on show in the foyer of the gallery. Like a metre-high frieze several posters (typographic print on paper) with two repeating motifs will line the lower wall of the vestibule. At the same time these posters will be found at various locations in the city. The flatly applied, reduced colouring and the graphically strong, simplified contour lines lend the subject, as so often in González’s work, an appearance of deceptive banality. The concept of posters is reminiscent of her wall papers with which the artist has covered whole walls of institutions, such as at documenta 14 in Kassel. Such works take up key moments in the politically turbulent history of Columbia and, on the basis of the reproducible medium, make them into iconic symbols in the minds of those who see them.
Opposite – Zócalo del Duelo: Duelo con Celular, Duelo con Pañuelo…, 2018
Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2019
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
8005 Zürich
Switzerland
