Beatriz González | In her own words: The Lifeless

The Colombian artist Beatriz González opened in 2024 her first exhibition in the Netherlands: War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture in De Pont Museum, Tilburg.
Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, 1932) is one of Latin America’s most influential painters. Her work is poetic and direct, critical and alienating. Through the overwhelming visual language of her idiosyncratic paintings, she delivers pointed commentary on Colombian society. By doing so, she preserves memories of events about which most official historians keep silent. War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture is the first-ever exhibition of her work in the Netherlands and focuses on gestures as vehicles for conveying emotion.