Gunther Gerszo

(Mexico City, 1915 – 2000)

Green Blue Red Landscape

1977

mixed media on Masonite

28 x 42 cm

Inv. no. CFB017

BBVA Collection Mexico



Gunther Gerzso wanted to be a classic, disciplined artist. Landscape and architecture were his main visual stimuli. However, his strict approach to painting did not stymie an extraordinary expressive potential achieved through well administered resources and a play of (always splendid) colours, and the lines dividing the composition, which bring to mind fissures, containments or implosions of matter.

The overall result is pristine, with incisive planes held together by carefully conceived structures. Both in his paintings and in his prints, Gerzso achieved unprecedented refinement reached in the smooth, porcelain-like, coralline surfaces, evincing his admiration for Flemish masters and the attitude of a Swiss clockmaker or goldsmith.

In 1977, when he painted this Green Blue Red Landscape, Gerzso had already been exhibiting his works in major venues for fifteen years. He was a highly influential painter, not just for his faultless technique, refined treatment of colour and unmatched impeccable rendering, but also because he was one of the most respected artists by his peers, and the
claimed him as one of its precursors.