ExhibitionSeptember 12, 2022
Bruma by Beatriz González
Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria and curated by María Belén Sáez de Ibarra. In alliance with the Museo de Arte UNAL, presents
BRUMA, an exhibition by Beatriz González gathers her most recent artistic proposal, a commemoration of forced disappearance. The exhibition displays twenty-seven works gathered around "A posteriori," a large installation made of hanging paper commissioned for this show, with which her "Auras Anónimas," the work that configures the monument in the columbarium of the Central Cemetery, which still awaits its consolidation as a public space and its restoration, is symbolically transferred to the counter-monument FRAGMENTOS to continue resisting. More than 20 recent paintings and six sketchbooks are included in this installation. BRUMA is also a meeting place for Beatriz Gonzalez and Doris Salcedo, two of the most representative artists of contemporary art, lecturer and student, who have dedicated their work to unveiling the history of Colombia. This exhibition opens next Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. and will be open until May 2023.
At the beginning of 2022, Doris Salcedo invited her lecturer Beatriz Gonzalez to exhibit in FRAGMENTOS around 900 "Auras Anónimas" tombstones in their current state of affectation, which testifies to their history of struggle for survival, but the project encountered conservation and scheduling difficulties that made its execution impossible. It became a creative opportunity for a new work by the artist, entitled "A posteriori", where six of the eight original drawings of Cargueros are repeated in paintings converted into hanging paper, with yellow tones aged by time, framed in the robust black of the arch of their tombstones. Thus, the freighters repeat their funeral marches throughout the length and breadth of the main room of FRAGMENTOS, but their contours are now diffuse, ethereal.
"Here we return to the intention of my work, which is repetition, because we have to insist a lot in Colombia, in certain phrases, in certain thoughts; it is an insistence on the situation of the country, an insistence that it should not be repeated anymore," says Beatriz Gonzalez.
BRUMA also contains a fifteen-meter showcase as an exhibition resource, displaying other characters by Beatriz González that exist on the tombstones of the San Lorenzo cemetery in Medellín. They are the Excavators, whose anonymous and somber figures dig in the uncertain darkness of the earth. Thus, also included is his recent series Funebria. The "Cargueros" no longer transport food, nor do the peasants dig into harvesting it; now the former carry bundles of dead bodies and the diggers dig the earth to find them.
In the paintings, one can appreciate "antisilhouettes" that seem to be in movement, that merge with the rural landscape invested with mourning, where black imposes itself in the figures and graves and is diluted with the blue of a sky that receives the night, as well as with the yellows and emerald greens that cover the tragedies underneath them.
BRUMA, an exhibition by Beatriz González gathers her most recent artistic proposal, a commemoration of forced disappearance. The exhibition displays twenty-seven works gathered around "A posteriori," a large installation made of hanging paper commissioned for this show, with which her "Auras Anónimas," the work that configures the monument in the columbarium of the Central Cemetery, which still awaits its consolidation as a public space and its restoration, is symbolically transferred to the counter-monument FRAGMENTOS to continue resisting. More than 20 recent paintings and six sketchbooks are included in this installation. BRUMA is also a meeting place for Beatriz Gonzalez and Doris Salcedo, two of the most representative artists of contemporary art, lecturer and student, who have dedicated their work to unveiling the history of Colombia. This exhibition opens next Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. and will be open until May 2023.
At the beginning of 2022, Doris Salcedo invited her lecturer Beatriz Gonzalez to exhibit in FRAGMENTOS around 900 "Auras Anónimas" tombstones in their current state of affectation, which testifies to their history of struggle for survival, but the project encountered conservation and scheduling difficulties that made its execution impossible. It became a creative opportunity for a new work by the artist, entitled "A posteriori", where six of the eight original drawings of Cargueros are repeated in paintings converted into hanging paper, with yellow tones aged by time, framed in the robust black of the arch of their tombstones. Thus, the freighters repeat their funeral marches throughout the length and breadth of the main room of FRAGMENTOS, but their contours are now diffuse, ethereal.
"Here we return to the intention of my work, which is repetition, because we have to insist a lot in Colombia, in certain phrases, in certain thoughts; it is an insistence on the situation of the country, an insistence that it should not be repeated anymore," says Beatriz Gonzalez.
BRUMA also contains a fifteen-meter showcase as an exhibition resource, displaying other characters by Beatriz González that exist on the tombstones of the San Lorenzo cemetery in Medellín. They are the Excavators, whose anonymous and somber figures dig in the uncertain darkness of the earth. Thus, also included is his recent series Funebria. The "Cargueros" no longer transport food, nor do the peasants dig into harvesting it; now the former carry bundles of dead bodies and the diggers dig the earth to find them.
In the paintings, one can appreciate "antisilhouettes" that seem to be in movement, that merge with the rural landscape invested with mourning, where black imposes itself in the figures and graves and is diluted with the blue of a sky that receives the night, as well as with the yellows and emerald greens that cover the tragedies underneath them.
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