Eduardo Stupía Untitled 1985

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Stupía's work represents a tradition of draftmanship in Argentina with precedents such as artists León Ferrari (born 1920) and Luis Felipe Noé (born 1933). This drawing is a landmark in Stupía's work of the mid–1980s, when his stylistic approach was unanimously celebrated in Argentina. One of his typical imaginary landscapes, it features an extremely controlled and complex composition in which the artist obsessively traced linear contours to create an almost imperceptible weblike structure. Stupía's interest in Oriental calligraphy is evident in this labyrinthine landscape's emphasis on gestural lines and the materiality and liquidity of ink.

Gallery label from New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, November 21, 2007–February 25, 2008.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
24 x 18 1/2" (61 x 47 cm)
Credit
Gift of Estrellita Brodsky
Object number
560.2007
Copyright
© 2024 Eduardo Stupía
Department
Drawings and Prints
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