Beto De Volder: Landscapes & Drawings

Beto De Volder: Landscapes & Drawings gives a view into Beto De Volder’s (b. 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina) persistent desire to artistically investigate drawing, color and the possibilities of the line. Since the early 2000s, De Volder has looked to these as core facets of his practice. Swirling, looping, and undulating, the  lines he creates combine artistic precision and slowness with the visual suggestion of movement and speed. In recent years, the artist has explored these ideas in larger format, and especially in his dibujos calados, which are featured in the exhibition: sculptural, colorful works emphasizing positive and negative, which embody drawing in real space and look humorously to ideas of spontaneity and expression. In larger part, however, Landscapes & Drawings, presents a grouping of smaller-format drawings and paintings that let the viewer into a new and more intimate view of De Volder’s meticulous and meditative practice. These untitled, delicate works once again bring up De Volder’s continuous dialogue with line, but also showcase his concern with color relationships and the possibilities of painting.