RODOLFO ABULARACH | David Nolan Gallery

Overview

David Nolan Gallery, in collaboration with Marc Selwyn Fine Art, is pleased to present selected paintings and works on paper by Guatemalan master artist, Rodolfo Abularach (1933 - 2020).
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The mysterious eye, the seat of all vision, the root of plastic imagination, the connection between the mind and the external surroundings. A receiver of the rainbow (of the most beautiful colors) as well as darkness. Expressions of rapid or static movements, concentrated openings with incredible variations-half-open like slits, abysses, fear, peaks, clarity, calm. Remote lands with forests and birds. A semi-conscious state that makes distant and archaic memories transparent. - Rodolfo Abularach
There is an ambiguity in the form, where the image transforms into another: bird, mollusk, fish, sphere, shell, snail, pearl. Thus, the eye is not just the “Window of the Being” but everything that exists in its universe—everything I can perceive by looking inward or outward. Nothing is static. Everything is in constant motion—tension, attraction, repulsion, etc. One tone next to another causes a visual movement. The areas of light and shadow are also movement. The line or intermediate zone that traverses the form also moves. Everything exists, pulsating. - Rodolfo Abularach
About the Artist

Born in Guatemala, Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is one of Latin America’s most distinguished yet underrecognized masters. Throughout his over six-decade long career, Abularach created a fascinating and spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals.

His most famous subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist’s homeland and ancient history. Abularach mastered and explored a variety of styles, from hyper realistic to abstract, monochrome to multicolored, esoteric to surreal. He was known for his virtuosity in multiple media, including painting, drawing, and printmaking.

Abularach’s work is held in an extraordinary number of major collections and institutions worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and El Museo del Barrio in New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.; Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, Colombia; Museum of Modern Art in Guatemala City; Museum of Contemporary Art in São Paulo, Brazil; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Norton Simon Museum in California; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Copenhagen; and Museum of Art and History in Geneva, Switzerland, among others.

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