Folk art, Naive, Latin American art , Family portrait in the style of a Chinese ancestor portrait. Maria Teresa Vieco is a Colombian artist born in 1953 in Bogota. She studied at the French Lycée in Bogotá before reading architecture at the National University of Colombia and attending the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She exhibited at the Biennale de Paris in 1963. Maria Teresa Vieco has been exhibited with Maruja Rolando and Thomas Erma. She is included in the prestigious Banco de la República Art Collection in Colombia. From a very young age, María Teresa Viecco has exhibited her painting, in collective and individual exhibitions: the Paris Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, the Havana Cuba Biennial, the Museum of Modern art, the Tertulia Cali. Also, in galleries in Colombia, France, Germany and New York. Her latest series "Imaginary Animals" is a rereading of her traditional themes, man and nature. EXTRACTS FROM THE TEXT OF BARBARA TÖPPER FENNEL - GALLERY BARSIKOW BERLIN 1998 Images of Memory, (name of the series) refers to images that arise from the memory of the very personal memory of a Latin American artist who lives in Europe. ; but at the same time it is the memory of paintings of a collective nature, a memory of the cultural origins of the history of humanity in times of pre-civilization, of archetypes and primitive rites. Images are memories of places and are themselves places of memory. ”(…) “These works are fully consciously based on a line of tradition often forgotten in modern art by the constant pressure for innovation and the euphoria of progress of the avant-garde within modernity itself, established in an exemplary way by Picasso in relation to art African: the work of memory is accomplished, not to repeat the past, but to appropriate it and interpret it in the context of the present.