Verónica Marcano
Four ragged vertical lines of gold and cream rising from the lower edge of a deep blue field, each ending in a small flare, like burnt-down tapers of different heights.

What Could Have Been I

Four ragged vertical lines of gold and cream rising from the lower edge of a deep blue field, each ending in a small flare, like burnt-down tapers of different heights.

One continuous line, drawn without lifting, in gold or cream or copper on flat ultramarine. Drawn that way a figure is fast, light and slightly comic — until it isn't. In 2024 the same line produced the Venezuela paintings.

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2024
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The body in movement

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