Vivian Suter : disco

This publication on the Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter (b. 1949, Buenos Aires) offers an immersive approach to her acclaimed painting practice, whose relationship with the natural world makes it particularly challenging. Her gestural works are the result of a daily, physical and emotional relationship with the materials and the contingencies of nature in the subtropical ecosystem where she lives and works. Rain, earth, humidity, light, flora, and fauna often inhabit her unstretched canvases, expressing her close interaction with external factors and her break with the traditional notion of controlling authorship, to create a versatile and monumental body of work, visually incomparable—an ode to the possibilities of painting.