Priest and artist, Jerry Bleem, O.F.M, who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago recently wrote an analysis of Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín's La Tempesta.
Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín (b. 1928, Lima, Peru - d. 2015, Lima, Peru) was an artist who studied and lived in Europe for three decades and whose practice included painting, sculpture, architecture, and land art. He drew from indigenous, pre-colonial, and geometric Latin American sources while inserting them in his production. In Europe, he became friends with Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, who influenced his artistic transition to paint with the “guided fate,” in which the artist minimally intervenes with the work and lets chance, or nature, be the protagonist. Towards the end of Rodríguez-Larraín's career, he created large, site-specific sculptures and land art that were inspired by his training as an architect and interest in the environment.
