VICE Meets: Jim Amaral
Bogotá, Colombia, November 22, 2017
Duration
5:16
Host
María Rivas
Production
Jorge Durán
Camera
Claudia Currea
Jaime Barbosa
Mateo Santamaría
Editing
Mateo Santamaría
Sound Mixing
Andrés Mira
Music
Jingle Punks
Audio Network
Archival material courtesy of
Valentina Amaral
Gabriel Ossa
The artist Jim Amaral was a cultural disruptor in the 1960s, with controversial works alluding to sex that caused a stir in conservative Colombia. For over fifty years, Amaral has created drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures in bronze and steel that challenged accepted social norms. We went to his studio to talk and get to know him better; to ask him how he came to Colombia, to learn about the reactions his work generated at the time, and to understand the legacy he is leaving behind.
