Beatriz Gonzalez, the Colombian artist who turned violence and grief into art, gets a new European retrospective months after her death at 93.
Metropole · Arts
Key Facts
— Who. Beatriz Gonzalez, widely seen as one of Latin America’s most important artists, died in Bogota on January 9 at 93.
— Why now. A major retrospective opens in Oslo on June 12, following a landmark show in London this spring.
— The subject. Much of her work wrestles with Colombia’s long armed conflict, and with grief, loss and memory.
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