Gaby Grobo: Horizonte Infinito

In this Argentine Gaby Grobo‘s (b. 1966, Carlos Casares) new series of works, the infinite horizon, metaphysical, disturbing, vertiginous, of the Pampas, is the axis that calls the spectator.

Her profound love for her hometown has inspired her to create a personal iconography based on the collection of images that she saw daily while living and exploring the environs of her town. Her deep appreciation for her homeland is evident in her work, which reflects not only nature but also the stories of her cultural ancestors. In this new series of works, the infinite horizon of the Pampas is presented as metaphysical and disturbing, as a vertiginous axis that confuses the spectator’s vision. It is a horizon that suggests more than what appears.

Grobo artist uses condensed shapes and colors in her search for the internal feeling and external appearance of the vastness, the silence and the poetry of these unique large spaces. In some paintings, the line that divides heaven and earth and the concrete and the magical appears to be undulated as nature and humanity become embedded in the mystery of creation. She looks for the inner feeling beyond the external appearance of these wide open vistas, where nature symbolizes specific gestures and silent spaces and the simplest thing acquires prominence. The horizon is a symbol of the future, for goals unattained, yet waiting to be accomplished.

The “Horizonte infinito” suggests more more to say and that potential includes the vastness, the silence and the poetry of these unique large spaces that allow the artist condense shapes and colors looking the interior feeling and external look of those envelopes extensions.