Hulda Guzmรกn review โ lizards and ghosts gather for an art freakout in the rainforest
Turner Contemporary, Margate The young Dominican painterโs dizzyingly beautiful jungle scenes will transport you to the tropics โ and remind you of the wonders of the natural world Deep in the Dominican rainforest, high up on a mountain, miles from anywhere, Hulda Guzmรกn stares at an endless expanse of jungle. From her modernist wooden studio, built by her architect father Eddie, she looks out into the vast greenness of her world, the deep blues of the ocean in the distance, the warm oranges and yellows of the sky, and she feels peace. She feels a sense of oneness with nature. Itโs a kind of spiritual positivity thatโs a little hard to empathise with when youโre under the leaden skies of the UK, but if you lose yourself in Guzmรกnโs psychedelic Caribbean landscape painting you can almost be transported to the tropics. The young Dominican artistโs paintings here in her first institutional show in Europe are ultra-colourful jungle reveries, filled with allusions to art history and mythical beings. Continue reading...