Árbol en Potosí (Tree in Potosí)

MARÍA ELENA MOLINARI (1956). Engraver and painter. She studied with Rimer Cardillo and was influenced by Antonio Frasconi. She has exhibited individually and collectively in Uruguay and abroad; her works are part of the collection of several cultural institutions and museums, including the National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay. She currently lives in Spain, where she has been associate professor at the School of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. In her first stage she masters the technique of xylography, creating figurative compositions of monumental and ascetic forms. With great expressive wisdom, she delves into the problems of society, denouncing its edges of loneliness and helplessness. Árbol en Potosí (Tree in Potosí IADB#0480) represents a scene which, isolated from its surroundings, conveys a feeling of introspection or simple waiting in the company of nature. The cut-out figure of a chola from Potosí awaits, next to a tree, for something that apparently is about to happen.