Olga de Amaral sculpts wire and gold at the Cartier Foundation

There is an enchanted forest in the woven, knotted, braided, intertwined world of the Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, contemporary Pénélope who, at the age of 92, transformed the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and restored its wild nature to his last exhibition on boulevard Raspail, in this 14^e an out-of-the-way district of Paris with an exotic calm.

Like the medieval imagination of the Arthurian legend transposed with passion by the filmmaker John Boorman in Excalibur (1981), bv is a whole universe of colors and surfaces, materials and variations which give substance to another landscape, another perception of reality coming from mythical Latin America. In nearly 80 works which fall in cascades, which capture the birth of the day or the sunset, which shimmer gently like the flakes of mica in granite, Olga de Amaral sculpts nature itself.

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