The Birth of Eros

At first glance, the work of artist Zilia Sánchez (1934) meets the criteria for classification as Minimalist. Hers is an austere geometry, lacking any adornment, decoration, or complement, and made from the simplest of materials. Yet her works — straddling painting and sculpture — with their soft lines, warm textures, and limpid colors, have a power of allusion, of evocation that refuses to admit any of the self-referentiality or tautology that characterizes most Minimalism.
The delicate sensuality of Sánchez’s work is present in Birth of Eros. Its stylized reliefs, highlighted in soft pink, are voluptuous reminiscences of the human body. This is an idealized landscape of the body, an erotic, imaginative, suggestive geography.