Description
In Frutas Extrañas (Strange Fruit II), Lorena Villalobos works in oil and cold wax, teal lines moving through an ochre ground to trace trees, leaves and plant forms across the entire surface. Figures emerge within the vegetation — arms, torsos, presences that dissolve back into the plant life around them.
Her Costa Rican botanical art has always held the human and the natural in close proximity, and here the two are barely distinguishable. The composition has a spontaneous energy, mark-making and painting jostling for the same ground.
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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