Untitled #208

José Antonio Suárez Londoño

2003

A small etching and aquatint that assembles a frieze of images—mountains and a dotted sky, prowling doglike animals, a band of inscription, and a lower scene of human figures and a boat—to suggest a compact, fable-like narrative about memory and action.

What strikes you is the delicate, gray-lined frieze stacked in registers: patterned hills and stippled clouds above a tense pack of animals, a ribbon of handlike script, and a haunting lower register where sketched figures, writhing lines and a tipped boat orbit a dense, spherical form.

Londoño reinvigorates the intaglio tradition by using etching and aquatint to compress mythic storytelling and personal memory into a modern, small-scale print that links Latin American narrative practices with contemporary surreal and poetic imagery.

Palette

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

Spanish and U.S. Government Posters

1937

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

1967

Luis Quintanilla: An Exhibition of Drawings of the War in Spain

1938