The Palacio de Velázquez in the Parque del Retiro, part of the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, is hosting an exhibition of works by the Swiss-born artist Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949) until 10 January.
Throughout her career, Vivian Suter has remained close to the art scene in Basel, the city where she lived from 1962 to 1983, when she took up permanent residence in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle. From his studio in Panajachel, located on a remote former coffee plantation by Lake Atitlán, Suter’s work has evolved into an increasingly close interchange with the natural environment, embodied in colourful and vivid canvases that break out of the frame to establish a profound continuity with the studio surroundings. After the tropical storms Stan (2005) and Agatha (2010), nature will intervene almost as a co-author of her works. The artist also begins to experiment with fish glue in works that move between the introspection of the interior of her studio and the exterior, where they are impregnated with wind, rain, mud and even small organisms from the jungle environment.
