América del Sur
Artist name
Artist year born
1917
Artist year deceased
2015
Artwork make date
1990
Artwork title translation
South America
Artwork material
acrylic
canvas
canvas
Artwork dimensions
height: 130cm
width: 100cm
width: 100cm
Artwork type (categories)
Painting
Accession method
Donated by María Freire 1994
Accession number
25-1994
Label text
This work belongs to a series collectively entitled América del Sur, which María Freire began in the 1990s. Freire consistently works in series, and this one was also a return to and reworking of an earlier series, called Sudamérica.
Sudamérica was exhibited in Brussels in 1959; despite its title, the abstract forms that it contained were not inspired by South America but by medieval European locks and keys. Freire herself had called the series Llaves (Keys). The title 'Southamerica' was in fact given by a public who perhaps imagined that the boldly coloured abstract forms of the paintings were inspired by the geometric patterns traditionally associated with the art and architecture of South America. In América del Sur therefore Freire incorporates an assumption about the precedent series by reclaiming it as the title for its reworked form.
Joanne Harwood
Sudamérica was exhibited in Brussels in 1959; despite its title, the abstract forms that it contained were not inspired by South America but by medieval European locks and keys. Freire herself had called the series Llaves (Keys). The title 'Southamerica' was in fact given by a public who perhaps imagined that the boldly coloured abstract forms of the paintings were inspired by the geometric patterns traditionally associated with the art and architecture of South America. In América del Sur therefore Freire incorporates an assumption about the precedent series by reclaiming it as the title for its reworked form.
Joanne Harwood
Last updated date
2008