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Publications
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Jim Amaral: Known Worlds
Mundos conocidos January 1, 2017Jim Amaral: The Poetics of Uncertainty, Sex and Surrealism Jim Amaral is an unsung pioneer in the visual presentation of sensuality and sexuality, albeit in its more nuanced and lesser-celebrated... -
Mourning Fruits
Frutos de Duelo por Jim Amaral April 1, 2023The book collects 135 paintings and prints -
Invisible Flowers
Flores invisiblesArtist book containing high-quality reproductions of 90 drawings. The series, produced 1979–1980, explores the hybridization of plant reproductive organs with human anatomy through graphite and watercolor on paper. Rooted in... -
Quote Unquote & Per Se
Entre Comillas & Per SePublication documenting a series of erotic drawings exploring themes of desire, metamorphosis, and the multivalent nature of human intimacy. Executed with fluid line work and a pastel palette punctuated by... -
Jim Amaral: Kaleidoscope: Imaginary Manuscripts
Jim Amaral: Caleidoscopio, Manuscrito ImaginarioExhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Amaral's show at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Documents the artist's sustained engagement with invented iconographies, mythological metaphor, and the visual language... -
Chariots of Humankind
Carrozas de la humanidadExhibition catalogue accompanying Amaral's return to Paris after more than three decades. Documents a body of bronze sculptures characterized by desolate geometric landscapes, archaic machines, and timeless vehicles that interrogate... -
Estados Presentes
Exhibition catalogue documenting Amaral's prolific output across drawing, sculpture, painting, assemblage, and printmaking. Essays situate the work within a conceptual arc spanning prehistory to the future, addressing sensuality, the unconscious,... -
Jim Amaral: tiempos del nunca
La extraña canción del tiempo Las series creadas por Amaral han ido surgiendo, sin que una niegue a la otra, como migraciones incesantes llegadas de un continente muy remoto y... -
Jim Amaral: Presencia
Olga de Amaral: Huellas / Jim Amaral: Presencia, 2009.Exhibition catalogue published jointly with Olga de Amaral: Huellas. Documents a body of work in which erotic and corporeal themes—expressed descriptively and metaphorically—intersect with the aesthetics of decrepitude and temporal... -
Jim Amaral: Meridianos
Olga de Amaral: Strata / Jim Amaral: Meridianos, 2008.Exhibition catalogue published jointly with Olga de Amaral: Strata. Presents bronze sculptures of desolate, watchful figures—beings with broken wings, open chests, and inscribed heads—inhabiting a space of existential waiting. The... -
Medusas: Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue accompanying the Medusas series. Includes an epigraph drawn from Aristotle's Metaphysics (trans. Patricio de Azcárate, 1999) on Platonic ideas and number as the essence of being—establishing a philosophical... -
Jim Amaral: Trans/figuraciones
Retrospectiva 1960–2004Retrospective catalogue spanning four decades of work in drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Documents Amaral's development of a personal symbolic language outside of national and international avant-garde movements, grounded in... -
Microcosmos: Fourteen Silver Pendants / Ten Bronze Sculptures
by Jim AmaralPublication documenting a body of small-scale bronze sculptures and silver pendants. Presents the artist's investigation into microcosmic form, mythological figuration, and intimate sculptural scale. -
Jim Amaral: No-men, Bronzes
Exhibition catalogue presenting bronze sculptures conceived as archetypes anchored to the subconscious and to genetic memory. The 'No-men'—wingless, nomadic castaways of past civilizations—are rendered in textured, colored bronze with an... -
Jim Amaral: Boxed
Artist publication documenting works organized around the motif of the box as formal and conceptual unit. Explores Amaral's engagement with containment, enclosure, and the sculptural object as repository of symbolic... -
Monólogos: Jim Amaral
March 3, 1998Exhibition catalogue presenting works in which erotic figuration, chromatic contrast, and assemblage converge. Documents the artist's trajectory from Paris-period drawings of suggestive eroticism to sculptural bronzes distilled through mythic figuration... -
Jim Amaral: Recent Sculpture
Exhibition catalogue documenting recent bronze sculpture. Presented in conjunction with the artist's sustained return to three-dimensional work following decades of drawing and painting practice. -
Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue featuring bronze sculptures described as apparitions from a capricious mythology—transient presences suspended between an unknown origin and an unknowable destination. Essays analyze the works' visual and conceptual paradoxes:... -
Jim Amaral: Esculturas
Exhibition catalogue documenting sculpture produced across multiple media including bronze and terracotta. The text by Eduardo Serrano addresses the formal subtlety and conceptual sophistication of Amaral's three-dimensional practice, placing the... -
Jim Amaral: Recent Works
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Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue presenting paintings and sculptures. Critical text traces the artist's evolution from erotically charged figurative painting—lunar landscapes, nocturnal still lifes, vegetable forms—to bronze sculptures synthesizing fantasy, manual dexterity, and... -
Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue presenting work in which the subversion of the flesh is the governing principle. Addresses erotic drawings, paintings of temporally corrupted fruit, and bronze sculptures understood as profoundly instinctual... -
Jim Amaral: Sculptures
Exhibition catalogue presenting bronze sculptures alongside a poem by Nemesio Sánchez (Dolor del Camino, Editions J. Dieu-Brichart, Belgium, 1989). The poetic text—evoking stones without form, colorless flowers, wingless birds, treeless... -
Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue accompanying a solo exhibition. Critical text by Eduardo Serrano addresses the defining characteristics of Amaral's practice: subtlety and formal refinement across drawing, painting, and object-making; line of near-fracture... -
Jim Amaral: Soliloquies Sculptures
Exhibition catalogue presenting bronze sculptures characterized by apparent stasis concealing autonomous movement. The works are described as moon-watched, winged, androgynous amphibious beings patinated in mystery—simultaneously archaic and contemporary, evoking Orphic... -
Pinturas y Mesas
Exhibition catalogue documenting paintings and table-objects shown at Galería Garcés Velásquez. Presents Amaral's practice at the intersection of painting and sculptural furniture-making, exploring poetic and penetrating reconsiderations of functional form. -
J. Amaral: Metamorfosis
Exhibition catalogue accompanying Amaral's solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Critical text by Jacques Leenhardt situates the work under the melancholic sign of Saturn, examining how... -
J. Amaral — XVII Bienal de São Paulo
Publication produced for the XVII São Paulo Biennial, under the thematic motto 'La vida es una transformación transitoria.' Critical text by José Donoso addresses Amaral's painting as pure sensuality—cold and... -
Pitture di Jim Amaral
Exhibition catalogue presenting paintings shown at the Galleria del Naviglio, Milan. Documents an early phase of the artist's European career in which erotic imagery and the semiological construction of signs... -
Amaral
Exhibition catalogue accompanying a solo exhibition at Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá. -
Amaral
Exhibition catalogue for Amaral's solo presentation at Galerie Octave Negru, Paris. Critical text addresses the artist's construction of a semiological bridge across time through his drawings and gouaches, framing the... -
Amaral
Exhibition catalogue for Amaral's solo exhibition in Stockholm. Critical text by Sun Axelsson frames the artist's practice as a courageous penetration of the dark caves of the subconscious—restoring autonomy to... -
Amaral
Exhibition catalogue presenting drawings and works on paper. Critical text by Eduardo Serrano positions Amaral as a Colombian-based American artist whose practice—grounded in deep knowledge of drawing's possibilities—achieves formal excellence... -
Amaral: Oeuvres Récentes
Exhibition catalogue presenting recent works at Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris. Documents a body of drawings and gouaches in which erotic anatomical forms are treated with formal precision and poetic license.... -
Jim Amaral — 628 Mostra del Naviglio
Exhibition catalogue for the 628th exhibition at the Galleria del Naviglio, Milan. Presents drawings and works on paper in which parts of the human body specific to love and sensory... -
Amaral
Exhibition catalogue for a solo presentation at Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris. Includes critical text by José Pierre offering a close reading of Amaral's graphic works as love letters—elaborate sign-systems built... -
Jim Amaral: Dibujos a Lápiz
Exhibition catalogue presenting pencil drawings shown at Galería Buchholz, Bogotá. Documents an early phase of Amaral's mature drawing practice. -
Jim Amaral: Dibujos, Collages, Óleos
Earliest documented exhibition catalogue, presenting drawings, collages, and oil paintings. Critical text describes Amaral's plastic sensibility oscillating between abstraction and near-infantile figuration, with a consistent underlying dialogue between expansive negative...
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