Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Bio
Ana Mercedes Hoyos (Bogotá 1942- 2014)
Was a Colombian painter, sculptor and a pioneer in modern art in the country. In her half-century of artistic works, she garnered over seventeen awards of national and international recognition. Beginning her career in a Pop Art style which moved towards abstract, her trajectory moved toward cubism and realism as she explored light, color, sensuality and the bounty of her surroundings. Her reinterpretations of master painters led her to an exploration of Colombian multiculturalism, and her later works focused on Afro-Colombian and mestizo heritage within the Colombian landscape.
By the mid-1970s Hoyos' series Atmósferas (Atmospheres) breaks through the window and the images explore the unfettered expanse of light, abandoning the frame entirely.Painting with alternating layers of various colors with each followed by a white layer, she explored the depths of color focused in light.
Statement
In this engraving, the girls prepare to start the parade towards the temple. They may be about twelve years old. Spiky. The artist looks at them, in line, from behind. They are dressed in short dresses, pale colors, with bows and bows in hairstyles with braids. A whole sacred ritual for that town. The feeling is one of expectation. An unbeatable job. A matter of cherubs and seraphim. To catch with white gloves.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
