Untitled #208
José Antonio Suárez Londoño
Colombian, born 1955
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.
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 3 7/8 x 4 11/16" (9.8 x 11.9 cm); sheet: 11 1/16 x 7 7/16" (28.1 x 18.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund
Accession
1600.2009
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