Description
In Ecos del Estuario, Lorena Villalobos works in oil and cold wax on canvas board, layering water, rock and vegetation in silver, teal and rust.
Light pushes down through the centre of the composition; tangled branch forms reach across the foreground; dark stone breaks the surface of the water mid-canvas. Villalobos builds through accumulation and erasure, scraping and gouging until the surface has the texture of the estuary itself. It is an oil and cold wax landscape painting where material and subject are inseparable.
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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