Looking at images of Raquel Rabinovichs Avatars on a screen in any reproductive format is to wrestle with the impossible. Encountering this recent body of work by the ninety-five-year-old artist is deeply moving, as though I were witnessing the distilled essence and summation of a creative lifetime. Her artistic engagement in transforming earthen materials like mud, silt, and stone into unfathomable dynamic spaces reflects her mastery of touch.
The artist’s works are like maps through which he conjures familiar habitats, while tracing the roots of modernism to the graphic expressiveness of Andean art.
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