Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, and Herlitzka + Faria, Buenos Aires, presented an exhibition of visual comparative narratives illustrating the role that Andean Pre-Columbian Textiles arts have played a significant and major part in opening the windows to new developments of Abstraction in the 20th century.
The exhibition brought together the works of a group of modern and contemporary artists whose careers spanned 20th and 21st centuries, namely Alvaro Campuzano, Fernando Coco Bedoya, Anita Payró, Alejandro Puente, Candelaria Traverso, Rebeca Romero and Augusto Ballardo. These artists all shared a reverence for Pre-Columbian Andean arts and their artworks reflect its power to inspire bodies of work rooted in its ancient abstraction and its spiritual depths. In each artist we can view a contemporary response to this archaic alternative reality.