Artist: Fernando De Szyszlo
Date: 1995
Museum: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
Technique: Etching
The wellspring of Szyszlo’s abstraction, the vast Andean landscape looms large and austere in his work, permeated with the memory of its ancestral past. Brooding and desolate, his images evoke the topography of the land and its stirring indigenous history through the drama of light and shadow, calibrated in contrasting textures and layers of tone. A steely chiaroscuro amplifies the raw power of the present etching, concentrated in the dark, totemic figure illuminated against the misty
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