Rios 5

Olga de Amaral · 1990

This is Rios 5, made by the Colombian artist Olga de Amaral in nineteen ninety from linen, gesso, silver leaf and paint. She works in fibre at the scale of painting, and gilds it — the technique comes from the gold leaf of colonial church interiors in Bogotá.

Medium Linen, gesso, silver leaf, and paint · Dimensions 34 1/2 x 34 3/4" (87.6 x 88.3 cm) · Credit Mrs. Donald B. Marron Purchase Fund and Gift of Bellas Artes Gallery

Hanging beside it in Gallery 516: Imagenes (Poster for the film directed by Robert Altman), Driftwood textile

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Blobs, Leaf, Roots 1, The Jungle, Solar Centrifugal Force (Outward) East, Driftwood textile, Solar Centripetal Force (Inward) West