Huari Culture 100 AD-1200 AD
63 x 56 1/4 in
on stretcher
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This brilliantly executed example of bold Huari textile aesthetics exemplifies the 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 20th 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.
Many related examples are in the Berlin museums much visited for inspirations by the Bauhaus founders, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers and Paul Klee. The Anni and Josef Albers personal collection also contain numerous related examples.
Amongst Uruguayan artists led by Torres Garcia in the 1930’s and by extension the Argentinian Madi Group led by Arden Quinn, there was a continuing influence from the former on the Concrete art school in Brazil in the 1940’s, all these various schools shared a common interest in the geometric art of pre-Columbian art of the Andean world and in particular the ancient textiles arts.
Exhibitions
Our North is the South, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, 2021.Confluences: 4000 years of South American Art, No.9 Cork Street, London, 2022.
Back to the Future, 40 years of Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Maiden Bradley, 2023.
Continuities, 2000 Years of Female Art in South America, Sala Brazil, Embassy of Brazil, London, 2023
Publications
Our North is the South (São Paulo, Bergamin & Gomide, 2021), p.3Confluences in Art (London: Paul Hughes Fine Arts, 2019), p.59
