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(ABULARACH, RODOLFO).Abularach, Rodolfo, Gavin Delahunty, Carlos Rodriguez Pellecer & Rudy F. Weissenberg. Los Angeles & New York: Marc Selwyn Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, I00250618. 2025. First Edition 1/500 Copies. 11 1/4 x 9 1/4', 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Born in Guatemala, Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is one of Latin America’s most distinguished yet underrecognized masters. Throughout his over six-decade long career, Abularach created a fascinating and spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals. His most iconic and repeated subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist's homeland and ancient history. Abularach mastered and explored a variety of styles, from hyperrealistic to abstract, monochrome to multicolored, esoteric to surreal. He was known for his virtuosity in multiple media, including painting, drawing, and printmaking. Abularach showed remarkable draftsmanship skills from a very young age and began his formal training at the age of 13 in Guatemala City. In 1958, he received a grant to continue his fine art studies in New York City. With a succession of additional prestigious grants, he remained based in New York for the next 40 years until 1998 when he fully resettled in Guatemala. In addition to being a visual artist, Abularach studied Mayan and Greek mythology, yoga, and meditation. His interest in the esoteric and the eye fed the same compulsion to transcend space and time by accessing something beyond his external reality. Like the eye, he saw the volcano as a transcendent portal and energy center.” A brand new example of this striking, beautifully illustrated hardbound catalogue – the first major work in English – on an artist whose artworld recognition and reappraisal is long overdue. 979-8-218-65068-1 Inventory Number: I00250618