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Vivian Suter

Condo NY

Co-curated with Jacqueline Martins, São Paulo, and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City
New York, USA

The standout show, at Simon Preston – co-curated with Jacqueline Martins, São Paulo, and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City – highlights the work of one star artist from each gallery, with all three working in Latin America and sharing formal concerns. The show’s centrepiece – a series of hanging, unstretched, painted canvases by the Guatemala-based artist Vivian Suter (Untitled, 2017) – seems to cast a tawny glow onto the works on the walls around it, as if caught in a late-summer twilight. Suter’s elegant, gestural geometric forms echo the intersecting coloured planes of several small acrylic-on-wood and canvas paintings by Jessica Mein (obra três [Work Three], obra cuatro [Work Four], obra catorze [Work Fourteen] and obra quinze [Work Fifteen], all 2013) – their shapes, in turn, a painterly collage of billboards the artist studied near her studio in São Paulo.

Other exhibitions by Vivian Suter at Proyectos Ultravioleta: