Nocturne FIAC // Olga de Amaral & Safâa Erruas

Olga de Amaral

Nébula 1, 2014, Japanese paper, gold leaf, linen,gesso and acrylic paint, 80 x 80 cm - Courtesy of Casa Amaral © Diego Amaral

Galerie Dominique Fiat invites Galerie La Patinoire Royale - Valérie Bach Brussels on the occasion of Marais Guide.
Two works by the artist Olga De Amaral will be presented.

Born in Bogotá (Colombia) in 1932, Olga de Amaral studied textiles at the Michigan Academy of Arts in the United States. Amaral is an established artist whose artistic technique is constantly evolving and combines art, design and craft. She transforms fabrics into artistic sculptures by adding paint, plaster, precious metals and fibres, making them difficult to classify. Amaral is a leading figure in Latin American post-war Abstraction. His "frameless" creations, composed of non-traditional materials, acquire greater historical resonance each year.

Amaral's work is driven by a passion for Colombian culture and a search for his own identity. Through his work, Amaral weaves together architecture, mathematics, landscapes and the socio-cultural dichotomies present in Colombian territories.
His inspiration from pre-Hispanic and colonial art, translated by the abundant use of gold, evokes a sensual presence.

Safâa Erruas

Géo-Fragments #2 - 3rd September / 30th October 2021

Safaa Erruas Comme une terre, 2021
Cotton paper, needles and nylon ls on cotton paper 30x30 cm

Geo-Fragments #2

Dominique Fiat is exhibiting a selection of recent works by Safaa Erruas.

Known for her white monochrome works that symbolise all colours in one, her work is singular and renewed by keeping a unity of language through the materials used, the use she makes of them illustrating certain paradoxes of our contemporary societies. Metal wires, needles, blades pierce soft and noble materials, here various types of paper. These are all signals that oppose each other and unite to express a powerful statement.

Her latest works, created in the social and health circumstances we have just experienced, reflect the questioning of an observer of a world that is fragmenting without a clear perspective emerging, evoking a relationship with the geopolitical world, fragmented, shifted…