Ana Mercedes Hoyos (1942-2014)
Geometría sensible
Ana Mercedes Hoyos (1942-2014) artista colombiana. Estudió artes plásticas en la Universidad de los Andes y en la Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, pero no se graduó en ninguna de ellas por dedicarse a la pintura. En 1966 Hoyos comenzó a exponer su obra, muy cercana al arte pop. Su interés por la investigación de las variaciones del color y las transparencias del óleo le llevó a la abstracción, con superficies muy claras, cercanas al blanco, con variaciones tonales casi imperceptibles.
Una de sus series más importantes, titulada “Ventanas”, está compuesta por pinturas de pequeño formato, cuadradas, en las que líneas verticales, horizontales y diagonales enmarcan un paisaje abstracto. Tras esta representación arquitectónica y geométrica dio paso a la serie “Atmosferas”, compuesta por cuadros de superficies abstractas que tienden al blanco con tono azulados. Así, en esta etapa su obra (1969-1979) se basa en criterios cromáticos, no representativos.
GEOMETRIA SENSÍVEL
Una geometría que pueda integrar, desde luego, las diferentes propiedades perceptivas, con el fin de presentarse como una especie de interfaz entre percepción y expresión: es lo que llamaremos una geometría sensible.
Biography
Artist Record Prices
The 1998 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Caribe Dos Sandas (a triptych)
The 1999 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Patillas de la cordialidad
The 2000 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Plátanos
The 2002 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Bazurto
The 2004 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for SANDÍA DE LA CORDIALIDAD
The 2005 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for PAPAYA
The 2006 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Marina
The 2008 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for La procesión en la fiesta de San Basilio
The 2009 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for SANDÍA DE LA CORDIALIDAD I
The 2011 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Sandía
The 2012 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Palenquera
The 2013 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Bazurto
The 2014 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for MURAL IN THREE PARTS
The 2016 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for BAZURTO
The 2017 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Tamboreras de la banda de Malangana
The 2018 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Bodegón de Palenque
The 2019 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Porcelana y mar
The 2020 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Bodegón
The 2021 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Bodegón
The 2022 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Porcelana del mediodía
The 2023 record price for Ana Mercedes Hoyos was for Palangana del mediodía (fragmento)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
- Ana Mercedes Hoyos: Abstracción Convergente ,Nueveochenta Gallery ,Bogota, Colombia
2014
- Ana Mercedes Hoyos ,Nueveochenta Gallery ,Bogota, Colombia
2008
- Ana Mercedes Hoyos ,Addison/Ripley Gallery ,Georgetown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
- Reencuentros ,Nueveochenta Gallery ,Bogota, Colombia
2015
- Folding: Line, Space & Body/ Latin American Women Artists Working Around Abstraction ,Henrique Faria, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
Ana Mercedes Hoyos was a Colombian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1942. Their work is currently being shown at Nueveochenta Gallery in Bogota. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Nueveochenta Gallery have featured Ana Mercedes Hoyos’s work in the past.Ana Mercedes Hoyos’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 175 USD to 245,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 245,000 USD for MURAL IN THREE PARTS, sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2014. Ana Mercedes Hoyos has been featured in articles for ARTFIXdaily and Art Nexus. The most recent article is Phillips to Offer 100 Years of Latin American Art on November 22 written for ARTFIXdaily in November 2016. The artist died in 2014.
