Ana Mercedes Hoyos: Palenque Culture

Also available in Spanish with the title: Ana Mercedes Hoyos - Palenque

This book collects very special moments in the work of Ana Mercedes Hoyos, the Colombian painter who occupies a very prominent place in current Latin American art. The tour through its pages allows us to appreciate the admirable reinterpretation of the still life and the still lifes that the artist has done with enormous creativity, based on the colorful plates of fresh fruit that the black vendors of Palenque offer to tourists on the beaches of Cartagena, as well as other aspects of his delightful pictorial foray into one of the most interesting cultures in Colombia. The characters of San Basilio de Palenque, their habits, their hobbies, their customs, have taken over the canvases of Ana Mercedes Hoyos in a siege that she assumes from an "intellectual as well as an emotional perspective. Because the work of Ana Mercedes Hoyos"

As the author of the text that accompanies this book, the art critic Eduardo Serrano, points out, “Ana Mercedes Hoyos's painting combines cultural and social reasoning with a voluptuous and penetrating gaze and with great technical mastery. Nominally, the first paintings from his later stages could be described as still lifes, since they are usually containers with splendid tropical fruits. But, unlike traditional still lifes, his paintings not only reveal the mediation of photography and are outdoors, but also constitute a document about the life, values ​​and aesthetic predilections of an ethnic group that has made invaluable contributions to the national culture that has only sporadically (Wiedemann) received the attention of artists.