Solo Exhibition at Museum of Art in San Marcos (Lima, Peru)

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

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

Modern artists:

• Cesar Calvo de Araujo (Yurimaguas/Iquitos, Peru)
• Antonio Maro (Catacaos, Peru)
• Victor Delfin (Lobitos, Peru)
• Andres Molina (Peru)

Collectives:

• Grupo Chaclacayo (1983-1994)
• Colectivo SHAPSHICO
• Colectivo MAKIS