ロサンゼルスカウンティ美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ロサンゼルスカウンティ美術館Instagram)「We celebrate the life of artist Luchita Hurtado, who passed away yesterday, August 13, 2020, at the age of 99. Hurtado's career survey, "I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn," is currently installed at LACMA. In LACMA's exhibition, the earliest artwork dates from 1942, and the most recent paintings were finished in early 2020—bookends to a remarkable eight-decade span of artistic creation. Walking through the exhibition as it moves from her forays into abstraction, to her experiments with language, to her engagements with ecology, one sees what at first appear to be different and discrete bodies of work. But what connects them all is an art practice that, over a lifetime, consistently reflected on our relationship as individuals to the world around us: be it our relationship to prehistory and ancient cultures; our relationship to nature and the environment (so eloquently summarized by Luchita's painted words "We are all a species"); or our relationship as human beings with one another, and—most piercingly—with ourselves. Throughout her life Luchita made inventive self-portraits—not just examples depicting herself in her surroundings, but also more subtle self-portraits rendered in text and metaphorical representations. Together they speak to artmaking as an insistent declaration of being—as a way of stating, to quote words Luchita patterned in paint, "I am." In her recent work, images of birth were an important motif, and it's hard not to think of those paintings as her way of connecting the end of life to the beginning. Luchita was nothing if not prescient. In her "Self Portrait," 1973, she embedded words that form the title of her exhibition, and read now like her final message to us: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn Image: Luchita Hurtado on a visit to LACMA in 1967, photo courtesy of the Hurtado studio.」8月15日 5時01分