Sean Kelly is delighted to present RÍO, Ana González’s third exhibition with the gallery. Conceived as a metaphorical river, RÍO flows through cascades, forests, and tropical jungles. Employing textiles, painting, porcelain, and video the exhibition conjures memory, emotion, and material transformation. Informed by indigenous cultures and their relationship to the land, water, and forests …
Born in land sacred to the Muisca, at eleven thousand feet in the Guacheneque Páramo, the Bogotá River descends into the savanna as a small mountain stream, clear and immaculate. Flowing through wetlands once teeming with birdlife—ecological formations that filter and purify like a natural sponge— the river merges with a network of watercourses, all …
Nacido en tierra sagrada para los muisca, a once mil pies en el Páramo deGuacheneque, el Río Bogotá cae a la sabana como un pequeño arroyo de montaña,claro e inmaculado. Atravesando humedales antaño silvestres para las aves,formaciones ecológicas que se filtran y depuran como una esponja natural, el rio sefusiona con una serie de afluentes, …
Sean Kelly is delighted to present VERDES, Ana González’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Through her artistic practice González captures the duality of the natural world – its fragile state due to humanity’s extraction of natural resources and the political and spiritual power inherent to it. Drawing upon the landscapes of her native Colombia, …
When nature is perceived as a network, its vulnerability becomes apparent. Everything holds together. If one thread is pulled, the entire tapestry can unravel […]. Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World See more Por: Ana Cárdenas Back
Creo que el Dios de esta artista terrenal y viva, más que el Dios olímpico de los padres de la Iglesia, se acerca al Dios panteísta del amable judío heterodoxo Baruch de Spinoza. González mira nuestro entorno natural, el vegetal, el mineral, el animado, y lo pinta y modela con extrema dulzura, pero al mismo …
I believe that the God of this lively, terrestrial artist is closer to the pantheistic God of the kindly heterodox Jew Baruch Spinoza than to the Olympian God of the Church fathers. González looks at our natural surroundings—animal, vegetable, mineral—and paints and models them with extraordinary gentleness, yet in the manner of Spinoza as well, …
This book celebrates mythic origins. Each work of art serves as a prayer. Together they awaken the mystic threads of memory that reach back to the dawn of creation, and a cosmic moment when women and water as a single generative force brought life and fertility to a barren and chaotic world. Out of myth …
Hijas del Agua celebra los orígenes míticos. Cada obra de arte constituye una plegaria. Juntas, despiertan los hilos místicos de la memoria que se remontan al amanecer de la creación, a un momento cósmico en que las mujeres y el agua, como una sola fuerza generadora, daban vida y fertilidad a un mundo caótico y …
This series of documentary photographs titled “Bellas Durmientes” (Sleeping Beauties) was shot in 2013 in a hastily abandoned house in Córdoba, Colombia, an architectural space seized by untamed plant life as if by a guest who gradually, stealthily takes over. See more The landscape enters into this period of work in dynamic contrast to the …