Deborah Arango

Projected by her plastic and human integrity, Débora Arango, a thorough painter, who had been a pupil of Pedro Nel Gómez and Eladio Vélez, managed like the greats to surpass her teachers and anticipate her time. The harsh, brutal and deeply human art of each of his works was not only incomprehensible for the 1940s but also rejected and condemned.

This is how a work created in an environment that was not conducive to it had to settle for the voluntary retirement of its author and remain in exile in a house in Envigado for more than 30 years, says Tulio Rabinovich, director of the book, at the presentation of the book. Museum of Modern Art of Medellín at the time of its publication. Fortunately for Colombian art, this is a bygone story. The authenticity and quality of her plastic work have long ceased to be a matter of debate, and the figure of Débora Arango has come to be included in her own right among the list of the most important Colombian artists of the 20th century.