Antonia Guzmán, Levitar

“Levitar” and “Herida” are the two series that Antonia Guzmán presents at OTTO Galería. Starting the tour of “Levitar” –corpus of works that give its name to the exhibition in general– acrylics on canvas and paper take shape from the fortuitous encounter with the book-catalog “Anni and Josef Albers, trips through Latin America” where Guzmán She continues the path started by Anni back in 1946, when, escaping from Hitler’s Europe after the closure of the Bauhaus in Weimar, she traveled the American continent with her husband, being absolutely seduced by pre-Columbian culture and aesthetics. Paintings that follow an internal rhythm, a leisurely geometric pattern, with a subtle brushstroke but very far from industrial perfection, privileging instead the moderate perception of the fabric of the fabric that supports the pigments; they emulate the harmony of the textiles of the Albers “Con verticals” series. The balanced, limited palette and the preponderance of a strict straight line, contrast strikingly with other series where the line allowed certain licenses by losing its rigidity relatively, integrating the curve and where the colors enjoyed a striking stridency. The series proposes a sustained conversation over time: artists creating in different countries and social, political and cultural environments, in different centuries and, nevertheless, thanks to the retrospective look that art enables – by recovering its influences from art history. , motifs and visions- artists like Antonia Guzmán can rework a work developed in the past by a huge group of “weaving women” heirs of an aesthetic whose kickoff was born with Albers in the Germany of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century.