"The Pinacoteca's retrospective will take an "art-historical reading from the perspective of the Global South", reinforcing a "Latin American viewpoint", says its co-curator Pollyana Quintella, who organised the exhibition with the Colombian curator Natalia Gutiérrez. The show will feature nearly 100 works from across González's career, underscoring how her art serves as a "direct confrontation with Colombia's history of violence, while challenging ideas around good taste, kitsch and popular culture"."
"She participated in the 11th Bienal de São Paulo in 1971 but received little recognition then, as the biennial was heavily boycotted in protest against Brazil's military dictatorship. Four decades later, the Pinacoteca exhibited González's work when it hosted the Hammer Museum's touring show Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85. But the full breadth of her practice, and its affinities with Brazilian Pop art movements like Nova Figuração in the 1960s, remained understudied until now."
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo hosts the first leg of a touring retrospective of Colombian artist Beatriz González, featuring nearly 100 works spanning her career. The exhibition emphasizes an art-historical reading from the perspective of the Global South and reinforces a Latin American viewpoint, curated by Pollyana Quintella and Natalia Gutiérrez. González's paintings play with popular-culture images and act as a direct confrontation with Colombia's history of violence while challenging notions of good taste, kitsch and popular culture. The survey marks her first solo presentation in Brazil and follows earlier retrospectives that toured Bordeaux, Madrid, Berlin, Miami and Houston.
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