Description
In Bosque Encantado, Lorena Villalobos works in oil and cold wax on canvas board, tree trunks pushing vertically through a deep field of blue.
At the centre, a luminous mass holds the composition in place. Villalobos builds the surface through accumulation and erasure, scraping and gouging to produce forms of genuine physical weight — the tree trunks here have the density of bark, their edges scored and built up. It is a defining quality of her oil and cold wax painting.
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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