ANA MERCEDES HOYOS | Palenqueras de noviembre

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1999

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ana Mercedes Hoyos Retrospectiva, November 2004 - February 2005, cat. no. 60, p. 117, illustrated in color 

Benjamín Villegas and Angel Kalenberg, Ana Mercedes Hoyos Retrospective, Bogotá 2002, pp. 252-253, illustrated in color 

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined and well-stretched. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable. At the extreme right center edge, two horizontal and one vertical one-inch dark surface scuffs are present. In the lower enter quadrant in the knee of the near figure, a diagonal surface scratch measuring approximately five inches in length is present. An isolated rectangular area of faint white discoloration measuring approximately two by four inches is present in the upper left quadrant, in the near knee of the standing figure. Under raking light inspection, two very faint horizontal surface accretions become apparent in the upper right quadrant on the back of the figure, each measuring two inches in length. Under ultraviolet light inspection, an isolated concentrated five-inch area of vertical drip accretions becomes apparent in the bunch of bananas in the lower center quadrant. A few additional isolated drip accretions become apparent in the lower left and lower right quadrants.
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"In Oldenburg, gigantism, macro-projection and the exaggerated size of objects, like a hamburger, transmit the cold and alienated spirit of the artist. In contrast, Hoyos, by magnifying and inflating banal forms, intensifies not only the palpability, the presence and the real sim of objects to which she attributes a sense of urgency and a symbolic content, she also heightens the sensibility and nobility that are inherent to them and go beyond their own physical existence." Angel Kalenberg in Ana Mercedes Hoyos Retrospective, Bogotá 2002, p. 31