Lot Essay
"...The foundation and motivation of her production are closely linked to the impressionist sense of color, to the schemes of contructivism, to the informalist interest in texture, to the rigour of geometric expression, and even to the new dimensions offered by conceptualism in relation to the intervetion of the artist in the physical execution of a work."
Eduardo Serrano
"Olga de Amaral has had an astonishing four decades of ever greater recognition since her first solo exhibition in her native Bogot in 1957. Her weavings have been key players in the deserved elevation of their medium to the status of fine art in recent times.
Amaral's works are among the finest embodiments of a Latin American awareness that our non-causal, non-linear temporality is hewn from simultaneous epochal sensibilities."
Ricardo Paul-Llosa
Eduardo Serrano
"Olga de Amaral has had an astonishing four decades of ever greater recognition since her first solo exhibition in her native Bogot in 1957. Her weavings have been key players in the deserved elevation of their medium to the status of fine art in recent times.
Amaral's works are among the finest embodiments of a Latin American awareness that our non-causal, non-linear temporality is hewn from simultaneous epochal sensibilities."
Ricardo Paul-Llosa