The Breathing Stone

Beatriz Cortez

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The artwork presents a weathered and textured stone or rock formation, featuring a rugged, organic shape with a mottled surface in shades of gray and brown. The composition emphasizes the natural curves and crevices of the material, showcasing its inherent beauty and the effects of time and erosion. The artist's focus on the raw, unpolished quality of the stone suggests a minimalist, earthy aesthetic that highlights the intrinsic qualities of the natural world. This piece may reflect the artist's interest in the beauty found in the imperfections and impermanence of natural forms, inviting the viewer to appreciate the inherent artistry in the unaltered elements of the environment. ...

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Beatriz Cortez
Artist
Beatriz Cortez
B.1970, Salvadoran

Beatriz Cortez is an artist who creates sculptures and large-scale public installations that focus on themes of migration, movement, and cultural exchange. Drawing inspiration from her own experience of immigrating to the United States from El Salvador, she incorporates indigenous elements such as plants and stones from the Americas into her sculptures to highlight the parallels between the migration of people and plants. In her public installations, she includes weather and other atmospheric conditions to encourage viewers to consider the vast time spans marked by the planet's movements, the presence of non-human worlds with different timeframes all around us, and the ways in which materials are affected by their location and interactions with the environment. Her most popular work, Tzolk’in (2018), is a large-scale mechanical sculpture that incorporates elements of Mayan cosmology and technology. The machine is inspired by the ancient Maya calendar that was used for agriculture, and its gears move in a way that combines circular and linear motion. Her work imagines a new kind of space that brings together different histories and cultures, acknowledging global and cosmic nomadism and envisioning the potential for divergent entities to coexist. ...

Beatriz Cortez: Artworks
The Breathing Stone
The Underworld
Beatriz CortezThe Underworld, 2021
168 x 168 x 23cm
Roots 4
Beatriz CortezRoots 4, 2020
112 x 64 x 48cm
Roots 5
Beatriz CortezRoots 5, 2020
155 x 59.69 x 54cm
Roots 6
Beatriz CortezRoots 6, 2021
155 x 36 x 46cm
Roots 7
Beatriz CortezRoots 7, 2021
154 x 52 x 37cm
Roots 8
Beatriz CortezRoots 8, 2021
74 x 35.566 x 18cm
FOREVER YOUNG
Beatriz CortezFOREVER YOUNG, 2021
94 x 94 x 94cm
2 x 2
Beatriz Cortez2 x 2, 2019
61 x 61 x 61cm
Hidden
Beatriz CortezHidden, 2017
29 x 37 x 4cm
Roots 1
Beatriz CortezRoots 1, 2020
71 x 81 x 61cm
Roots 2
Beatriz CortezRoots 2, 2020
78 x 51 x 48cm
Tombstone/Lápida
Fifteen Point Shield 1
The Argonaut: after Pakal
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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