Entorno Quieto 5 (Stillness 5)

Description

In this work, Olga de Amaral aligned 284 separately woven ribbons. As light travels through the spaces between them, a shifting, rippling pattern appears. It belongs to a series called Entornos (Environments), in which Amaral experiments with defining space by creating weavings that can function as walls or alter our experience of a room. She explains: “As I build these surfaces, I create spaces of meditation, contemplation, and reflection . . . Tapestry, fibers, strands, units, cords, all are transparent layers with their own meanings, revealing and hiding each other to make one presence, one tone that speaks about the texture of time.”

Provenance

The artist; offered through Lisson Gallery, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Entorno Quieto 5 (Stillness 5)

Olga de Amaral

1993

Accession Number

264664

Medium

Horse hair and hand-spun wool

Dimensions

219.8 × 213.4 cm (86 1/2 × 84 in.)

Classification

fiber art

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Grace R. Smith Textile, Dr. and Mrs. Magnus P. Urnes Memorial, Kate S. Buckingham, and Pauline Seipp Armstrong endowment funds