"Candy" Painting

Ammy Amorette is a fascinating Chilean artist. Her music, her painting, and her writing
are unlike anything, however, she is in a dialogue with everything, which is one of the
symptoms of an art that surpasses the ups and downs of the market, the petty scenes and
brotherhoods, but beyond that, what she has been doing for more than twenty years is
giving rhythm, color and words to a way of life. It is about expression, to be sure, but one
where all the signs shine, sing and converse, which is at the same time a definition of life
itself.
The paintings in this exhibition are a clear celebration of this way of assuming an
existence. From an original chaos that is the very creation of the world, of world, of her
world, to the faces, the profiles of living beings that appear to us as if we were in a dream
that is hers, but also ours. It is an origin, a total birth and, in turn, the return of a journey
through her intuitions, her visions, the voices that populate her and the melodies that we
can almost see in these lines, shapes, tones.
It’s Violeta Parra's hallucinated arpilleras, as well as the material of her songs, the flow
and lucidity of Roberto Matta, the tragic poetry of Pablo de Rokha and the ironic one of
Rodrigo Lira and her friends like that of Niko Candia and myself. We are all in those
paintings, in their themes, in their poems because that is what Ammy Amorette has done,
to give her heart a place in the world and that world is what you are seeing at this moment
and surely you will also hear. Art is agenerosity with the details that surround us, with the
moments of eternity that is all that accompanies us.
These paintings are an invitation to be accomplices of the universe.

HÉCTOR HERNÁNDEZ MONTECINOS