(1) Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant, textured landscape composed of bold brushstrokes and a rich color palette of warm browns, deep reds, and earthy greens. The overall composition is dynamic, with a sense of movement and depth created through the layering of shapes and textures.
(2) Subject Matter: The painting depicts a rugged, mountainous terrain with a body of water in the foreground, where a solitary bird can be seen. The scene appears both serene and primordial, with a sense of the untamed and the natural.
(3) Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork showcases an expressionistic approach, with the artist's brushwork and use of color creating a sense of emotional intensity and a departure from strict realism. The layered, almost sculptural quality of the paint adds to the work's tactile and visceral nature.
(4) Context: This painting likely reflects the artist's desire to capture the essence of the natural world, exploring themes of the sublime and the human relationship with the landscape. The work's bold, abstract treatment suggests a modernist sensibility and a departure from traditional landscape painting. ...
Iosu Aramburu is a visual artist who works with painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the imagination of a multifaceted modernity and its utopian potentials. His research project revisits early and mid-century modernism in the Andean region, through the creation of an atlas of forgotten images that aims to map the changing sensibilities in the region.
He has been part of exhibitions and international fairs. His work is included in collections such as the MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (New York-Caracas), the SPACE Collection (Los Angeles), the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), the Hochschild collection (Lima), among others. He is a founder member of Bisagra and has been a resident of the Fonderie Darling in Montreal, La Ene in Buenos Aires and Triangle France in Marseille. In 2018 he won the First Contest of Contemporary Art of the ICPNA and the National Contest Plaza Paz Soldán, both in Lima; in 2012 he won the III Arcos Dorados-ArteBA Latin American Painting Competition in Buenos Aires and the third place in the XV Visual Arts Competition “Pasaporte para un artista” in Lima. Between 2010 and 2017 he was a professor at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna. In 2021 he won the MoMA Artists Research Fellowship / Cisneros Institute. ...
PASTO is a contemporary art gallery based in Buenos Aires that represents young and promising Argentinian artists. We contribute to their professionalization by encouraging them to produce under new challenges and we try to impulse and build bridges between the artists and worldwide critics, curators and collectors. Since 2014, PASTO assumes its fundamental role as a meeting and dissemination platform and uses that potential to provide visibility to divergent practices and ideas. ...
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