Dear Readers,
Wonderful news! A new exhibition at El Museo de Arte de San Marcos, Centro Cultural de San Marcos opened yesterday: Cromáticas del Azul: select works by Peruvian artist Julio Hoyos Peña. You can view the PR at the following link Exposicion Cromaticas del Azul.
Translation in English
By Verioska J. Torres
April 16 inaugurates the exhibition "Blue Chromatics", paintings by Julio Hoyos Peña
Wednesday April 8, 2015
The Art Museum of San Marcos will present on Thursday April 16th, the latest exhibition of Peruvian artist Julio Hoyos Peña, Blue Chromatics, a selection of abstract oil paintings that characterizes his artistic production. The exhibition will be opened in the hall Vinatea Reinoso located at the Cultural Center of San Marcos at 7:00 pm.
Born in Abancay, Apurimac, Julio Hoyos studied at the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Peru. He worked as an assistant to Professor Ricardo Grau, later becoming his student. The approach to large painting in the arts greatly influenced his artistic career. After passing through the ENSABAP, Hoyos participated in several solo and group exhibitions. His career was divided between artistic production and teaching, becoming a recipient of the 2012 Horacio Zeballos Prize in painting, award given by the Derrama Magisterial.
From his inception in the artistic profession, Hoyos manifested his predilection for abstract forms. According to José Garden Wong, "the change plastic-pictorial from Julio guides his creativity towards achieving a very personal, intimate, characteristic of the current informalist universe. His work expresses a lyrical abstraction, and proposes questions through the 'doubt dialogue'. '' Pablo Heli Ocaña, president of the Derrama Magisterial, highlights the technical quality of our artist, which, "with a complex language of totemic constructions, tinges intermittently veiled and floating geometric forms or spaces divided by agile and vehement beings or in a gestation state."
The chance to appreciate the work of Julio Hoyos runs from April 16th to May 16th. Tours are conducted Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and 2-5 pm in the hall Vinatea Reinoso, 2nd floor, Patio de Derecho of the Cultural Center of San Marcos. See you there.
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Hope you are able to enjoy his works online!
Regards,
Veri
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
List of Peruvian Artists: Parte I
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. -- Ray Bradbury
My current research is simply a collective one. I'm collecting and noting as many Peruvian artists I can find through an online search, ArtStor database, and other databases, as well as, group exhibitions from galleries who represent exclusively Latin American artists, art museum databases with a Latin American art collection, and books/monographs/catalogues from my personal library.
By far, I have accumulated a list of fifty-or-so contemporary Peruvian artist names, which is organized by artist name, region/country, lifedates, style, influences, and active in fields on a spreadsheet. However helpful a spreadsheet would be on a blog, it would be too involved. Instead, I will note a number of key players, in my opinion, of modern and contemporary Peruvian art. In the future, I do intend on creating separate pages for each artist [refer to left columns "Contemporary" and "Modern"] as a reference library for myself and potential scholars.
Artists ("Artistas Plasticas"):
- Kukuli Velarde (Cuzco, Peru) -- PA
- Ana de Orbegoso (Lima, Peru)
- Maria Maria Acha-Kutscher (Lima, Peru) -- Spain/Mexico [Antimuseo w/ Tomas Ruiz-Rivas]
- Carolina Kecskemethy (Peru) -- Germany
- William Hernandez (Peru) -- OR
- Victor Baselly (Cajamarca, Peru) -- Germany
- Antonio Paucar (Peru) -- Germany
- Rafael Ramirez Maro (Lima, Peru) -- Germany [Director of Ramirez Maro Institute, Son of Antonio Maro]
- Sergio Zevallos (Peru) -- Germany [Grupo Chaclacayo]
- Raul Avallaneda (Peru) -- Germany [Grupo Chaclacayo]
- Hugo Lecaros (Cuzco, Peru) -- CA
- Elena Damiani (Lima, Peru) -- Lima/Copenhagen
- Graciela Arias Salazar (Ayacucho, Peru)
- Monica Luza (Lima, Peru)
- Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima, Peru)
- Adriana Ciudad Witzel (Lima, Peru) -- Germany
- Margarita Checa (Lima, Peru)
- Carlos Leon Xijimenez
- Jorge Marroquin-Winkelmann
- Tania Bedrinana
- Cesar Calvo de Araujo (Yurimaguas/Iquitos, Peru)
- Antonio Maro (Catacaos, Peru)
- Victor Delfin (Lobitos, Peru)
- Andres Molina (Peru)
- Grupo Chaclacayo (1983-1994)
- Colectivo SHAPSHICO
- Colectivo MAKIS
Saturday, March 21, 2015
New Template and New Font!
Dear Readers,
The blog had a makeover! I decided to have a new look for this year, and of course, why not re-vamp the pre-existing template background to GOLD. The previous template was functional for my intentions of showing a display of artworks on a wall, but given the simplicity and banality of said template, I chose to change it in order to leech out my true intentions. The background color chosen is symbolic with a textured appearance of molten gold. Also, the color combination of the text is both a literal representation of the Peruvian flag (red and white, gold for emblem) and an allusion to the Inka's tyrannic pursuit for creating a large empire through bloodshed and bloodletting. In Peru's history, the Inka were a fierce people and empire with great amounts of war tactics, conquest, and gold. When one asks, "If you can think of one word that describes Peruvian art, what would it be?" One might answer "gold."
One preconceived notion in identifying Peruvian art is through its pre-Colombian roots and bringing forward comparisons to Mayan art and Aztec art. Although, my mission in using this blog, aside from promoting Peruvian artists and expanding my research options, is to teach the public a different side of Peruvian art. Peruvian art is not solely archaeological findings of pottery, gold jewelry, and mummies, that is merely an aspect of Peruvian art. Although, there is much needed scholarship and archaeology to be done in Peru still, and my intention is not to be dismissive about the archaeological work promoted in Peru today. I am simply stating my personal opinion on the identity and definition of 'Peruvian art' as we know it and see it in exhibitions here in the United States.
Peruvian art is a culmination of pre-Colombian artifacts and architecture, Colonial/Spanish art and architecture, Modern art and architecture, and Contemporary art (or at least, that is as far as it goes) from all diasporas including Andean, Chinese-, Japanese-, and Afro-Peruvian, as well as, Peruvian-American.
In a holistic sense, I am expressing my appreciation for the artistry my ancestors produced and left for us to preserve through an explicit and intentional presentation of the color gold in my 21st-century digital blog.
Now lets talk about modern and contemporary art, shall we?
The blog had a makeover! I decided to have a new look for this year, and of course, why not re-vamp the pre-existing template background to GOLD. The previous template was functional for my intentions of showing a display of artworks on a wall, but given the simplicity and banality of said template, I chose to change it in order to leech out my true intentions. The background color chosen is symbolic with a textured appearance of molten gold. Also, the color combination of the text is both a literal representation of the Peruvian flag (red and white, gold for emblem) and an allusion to the Inka's tyrannic pursuit for creating a large empire through bloodshed and bloodletting. In Peru's history, the Inka were a fierce people and empire with great amounts of war tactics, conquest, and gold. When one asks, "If you can think of one word that describes Peruvian art, what would it be?" One might answer "gold."
One preconceived notion in identifying Peruvian art is through its pre-Colombian roots and bringing forward comparisons to Mayan art and Aztec art. Although, my mission in using this blog, aside from promoting Peruvian artists and expanding my research options, is to teach the public a different side of Peruvian art. Peruvian art is not solely archaeological findings of pottery, gold jewelry, and mummies, that is merely an aspect of Peruvian art. Although, there is much needed scholarship and archaeology to be done in Peru still, and my intention is not to be dismissive about the archaeological work promoted in Peru today. I am simply stating my personal opinion on the identity and definition of 'Peruvian art' as we know it and see it in exhibitions here in the United States.
Peruvian art is a culmination of pre-Colombian artifacts and architecture, Colonial/Spanish art and architecture, Modern art and architecture, and Contemporary art (or at least, that is as far as it goes) from all diasporas including Andean, Chinese-, Japanese-, and Afro-Peruvian, as well as, Peruvian-American.
In a holistic sense, I am expressing my appreciation for the artistry my ancestors produced and left for us to preserve through an explicit and intentional presentation of the color gold in my 21st-century digital blog.
Now lets talk about modern and contemporary art, shall we?
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