VIVIAN SUTER AND THE RELEVANCE OF SURROUNDINGS AT MAAT IN LISBON
Lisbon's MAAT hosts the exhibition Disco, a show with more than half a thousand works by Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1949) with which the institution pays tribute to the pictorial production of the Swiss-Argentine artist and her particular exploration of the interaction with nature and the different techniques and possibilities applicable to painting.
The exhibition focuses on part of the trajectory that the painter has developed and whose roots can be found in the monumental project she has been developing in the Guatemalan town of Panajachel, since Disco can be considered the culmination of this work. With the five hundred paintings on display, about a third of which have never been exhibited, the curator of the exhibition, Sérgio Mah, aims to highlight the role that geography and place play in Suter's production, which seems to be a key point in the process and outcome of his proposal. As a fundamental curiosity, all the works that make up this exhibition proposal lack title and date, although the artist indicates that they seem to date from the last ten years.
Her abstract paintings are the product of these relationships, subjective and intangible in the emotional, but also tangible in the material. From there you can trace the elements that make up the location and nature, from the flora and climate to the pets themselves. In fact, the title of the exhibition is also the name of one of the artist's dogs, which recognizes the importance of all this in the final sense that gives her complete artistic production that, in part, collects the inclemencies and that interaction of space and the ecosystem from which Suter produces.
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Vivian Suter - Disco can be seen until March 17 at MAAT, Av. Brasília, Lisbon (Portugal).
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