Description
In Fotosíntesis, Lorena Villalobos turns her attention to the living mechanics of the plant world.
Working in acrylic on canvas, she builds leaf forms from shadow and light — the white tracery of veins, the dark weight of seed heads suspended in deep green.
This is a painting about energy moving through matter, the whole slow voltage of a living plant. Villalobos has been central to Costa Rican botanical painting for four decades.
Art historian and former Costa Rican Minister of Culture Carlos Francisco Echeverría has described her work as among the most significant to have emerged from the region in recent times. She is among twenty-six artists named as Modern and Contemporary Masters in Central American Modernism (Ford and Snider, 2018).
Framing not included.
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