Yaxchilán 1988

Gunther Gerzso made Yaxchilán, but the date is unknown. The surface is like something aged and unearthed, not made. Look at how the light plays on that rough texture! You can imagine Gerzso layering and scraping, building up a history on each plane. There's something really interesting about the colour, how it shifts from a kind of verdigris green to deep blues, almost like oxidized bronze. It makes me think about the way colours and materials can evoke time and place, even in abstract forms. See that rectangular cutout on the left panel? It’s not just a shape; it's a window. Maybe it's about a certain atmosphere, a way of seeing the world through fragmented memories. It’s as if he’s not just building a structure, but also a feeling. Gerzso’s engagement with surrealism can be compared to the work of Giorgio de Chirico, someone who also sought to extract the unreal from the real. It’s all about the conversation that art has with itself, echoing and answering across time.