






Huari Culture 100 AD-1200 AD
Huari Tunic, Circa. 900 AD
Camelid fibres
110 x 126 cm
43 x 50 in
43 x 50 in
HUA0001
Copyright of Paul Hughes Fine Arts
Further images
The Andean textile weaving tradition has persisted in continuation for an uninterrupted span of 3000 years until today in the remote areas of the Bolivian highlands.These stunning and monumental example...
The Andean textile weaving tradition has persisted in continuation for an uninterrupted span of 3000 years until today in the remote areas of the Bolivian highlands.These stunning and monumental example of bold Huari textile aesthetics exemplifies this culture’s technical virtuosity in expressing abstractly the beliefs that man has the power to create order, transcend space and time in a non representative colour field of geometrics. For, surely accustomed as we are with our late XXth century modes of perception freed from representational conventions, the visual impact of this cloth and those of the following group cannot fail to resonate with the archetypal heritage of abstraction inherent within us all. The sublime beauty of these minimal aesthetics resonates with numerous modern attempts in abstract arts, from the Bauhaus master weaver Anni Albers’ “Wallhanging series” in the 1930s, the American Abstract Expressionist Newman’s “Adam (1951-52), to renowned painters in the far east such as the Dansaekhwa generation.
Exhibitions
Design Miami, Basel, 2019Our North is the South, Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, 2021
Confluences: 4000 Years of Abstract Art, No.9 Cork Street, London, 2022
Continuities, 2000 Years of Femal Art in South America,Sala Brazil, London, 2023
Publications
Ancient Textiles from the Andes, the Whitworth, Manchester, 2019Confluences in Art, Page. 45, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, 2019.
Our North is the South, Page 90, Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, 2021