The Centro Botín in Santander presents "When Things Are Just Beginning," the first major retrospective dedicated to Marisol's drawings and works on paper. Curated by Laura Vallés Vílchez, the exhibition reassesses the Venezuelan-born artist's practice beyond her well-known sculptures, exploring her cyclical withdrawals from the art world and her use of drawing as a space for intimacy. It features works like "Indian" (1969) and "Woman with Child and Two Lambs" (1995), tracing her responses to the New York art scene of the 1950s-70s and the political conflicts of the Vietnam War era.
This retrospective matters because it challenges art-historical categorizations that have often reduced Marisol to her sculptural output, foregrounding her drawings as a central, interconnected part of her broader practice. By highlighting her deliberate retreats from a media-driven, market-oriented art world, the exhibition offers a nuanced understanding of an enigmatic figure from the vibrant 1960s-70s New York scene, reasserting her work as a fragmented yet cohesive whole that engages with identity, corporeality, and social critique.