MADRID.- Traves韆 Cuatro is presenting Bajo el mango, an exhibition by artist Vivian Suter at Traves韆 Cuatro Madrid in collaboration with GAGA CDMX.
"What lies beneath a mango tree? A rotting mango, fruits that turn black and burst with flies, ants, and bees, in a horrible and sweet swarm of life. And deeper down, the roots that drink secret waters, and pits that germinate, and pits that do not germinate and, as they decompose, return to the earth what the ancient roots that gave them life took from the earth. And even deeper down, the dead from whom dreams draw their nourishment.And deeper still, the mineral gods; and even deeper, the invisible and the unspeakable, which sometimes emanate to the surface like a breath. Just as there are geological layers, Suter’s paintings can be understood as pictorial layers. Surfaces that, through accumulation, sculpturally document the marvelous history of their endless process." — Excerpt from the curatorial text by Luis Felipe Fabre
Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949) is a painter based in Lake Atitl醤 in Guatemala. She has participated in documenta14 in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany; the 11th Taipei Biennial at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Desert X 2021, Coachella Valley, California; 31 Bienal de S鉶 Paulo, Brazil and the 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea). She has had solo shows in Vienna Secession, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Palacio de Vel醶quez at Museo Reina Sof韆, Madrid; Vleeshall Center for the Arts, Vleeshall, Netherlands; Br點ke Museum, Berlin; Tate, Liverpool; Camden Art Centre, London; MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxemburg; The Art Institute, Chicago; The Power Plant, Toronto; Museo El Eco, Mexico City; The Jewish Museum, NY; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; The Mistake Room, Los Angeles. Her upcoming solo shows include Vienna Secession, Vienna; GeMAC, Bergamo; and MALBA, Buenos Aires, amongst others.
In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim / Swiss Grand Award for Art. Her work is in the permanent collections including Tate, UK; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Art Institute, Chicago; MCA Chicago, Chicago; The Jewish Museum, NY; MoMA Warsaw, Warsaw; cNAP, France; MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxemburg; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and others.
