Beatríz González
Historias Wiwa I
Lot closes
June 7, 03:20:30 AM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
Starting Bid
20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Beatriz González
b. 1932
Historias Wiwa I
Executed in 2015.
Digital print on wallpaper
With digital edition; 1 of 5 + 2 artist's proofs
Each module: 32 x 23 5/8 in. (81.5 x 60 cm)
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Courtesy of Beatriz González and Casas Riegner, Bogotá
Beatriz González (b. 1932, Bucaramanga, Colombia; lives in Bogotá, Colombia) is one of her country’s most consequential artists. Since the 1960s, she has repurposed press images, popular graphics, and Western art history to contend with representation and remembering in the context of Colombia’s conflict. As she has famously said, “Art tells what history cannot.” González’s work is in the MCA Collection and numerous other public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Tate Modern, London. The Pérez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently organized a major traveling retrospective of her work. She has also participated in important surveys, including the 11th Bienal de São Paulo (1971), Venice Biennale (1978), and Documenta (2017).