Exhibitions
Sandra Vásquez's Awakened Volcanoes at the Malba in Buenos Aires
Heading to the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, we're headed to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's temporary exhibition, Los volcanes despertares (The Awakened Volcanoes ). A tour that can be seen, enjoyed, and explored by the Viña del Mar-born artist until July 28th in Room 3 of the Museum of Latin American Art in Argentina's capital. Curated by Raphael Fonseca and organized by the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition is open to the public until July 28th.
An exhibition consisting of two hundred works, including drawings, paintings, and prints developed over four decades of her career, organized into thematic sections that seek to interact and create a dialogue based on the body, nature, language, and spirituality so characteristic of Sandra Vásquez.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, The Awakening of a Volcano, 2019. Graphite pencil, watercolor, gouache (opaque watercolor) © and courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eric Tschernow.
Malba presents Sandra Vásquez's first solo exhibition in Argentina, recognized for her recent participation in the Venice Biennale. Based in Berlin, one of the great capitals of the art world today, in The Awake Volcanoes she creates a path where a fire throbs within, evoking volcanoes and mountains, before moving on to a botanical account of evolution based on combinations of anatomy and the plant world.
The next two elements and connections will be thoughts and deep waters, a spiritual awareness and the profoundness of the human environment. This will be the third stop of the temporary exhibition, which began in Denver, Colorado, then moved to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, and has been at Malba since April.
“Silhouettes of human bodies, mountains, volcanoes, and words dot Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's work, which delves into shared and previously unrevealed stories of trauma, desires, fantasies, and taboos,” says Fonseca. The work on display, created from these four core themes, invites the eye to uncover the mysteries and depths of our shared experiences. Vásquez de la Horra explores this through her art and creations, uniting history, memory, dreams, and imagination.
