Sin título (Untitled)

AMALIA NIETO (1907-2003). Painter, engraver and sculptor. She trained with Domingo Bazzurro at the Circle of Fine Arts and, in Paris, with André Lhote, Othon Friesz, Johnny Friedlaender and Gino Severini. She was a member of the Joaquín Torres García Constructive Art Association. She taught and received awards such as the Grand Prize for Painting at the XXXI National Salon of Visual Arts (1967), the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the XXXIII National Salon (1969) and the Figari Award (1995). Her production moves between figuration and abstraction, always revolving around an internal vision that captures the essence of things and conveys them, poetically and affectively, through color and palette. Her works have a flat character with geometric structures; the object is intended to be deconstructed until it becomes a symbol. In particular, the Búhos (Owls) series consists of disturbing characters who impose their hieratical presence over a backdrop of color and silence. “It is a kind of rhabdomancy which is, ultimately, the essence of her painting […], which enables her to extract, even in the apparently trivial themes, their deepest roots”. In Sin título (Untitled IADB#0505) the circles and lines suggest a bird of prey, with menacing eyes, looking at the viewer as if he were its prey, in a night of vermillion sky.