QUIPU: Exhibition El arcoiris sale en vaciante from November 8 to 17 at the IESA gallery
The exhibition El arcoiris sale en vaciante will take place from 8 to 17/11 at the IESA gallery. It presents a vision of Amazonian art with ritual as a means of expression.
It is organized by second-year students of the Bachelor in Arts Management and Pre-Master students under the guidance of Laura Petrecca, a former MBA in Contemporary Arts student at IESA, and Grécia Cacerès, head of the Latin America Department at IESA’s Applied Research Center.
Quipu
As part of Peru’s cultural policy abroad, QUIPU Peru / France Cultural Encounters seeks to foster dialogue with the host country by promoting the most significant expressions of Peruvian culture through the identification of cultural convergences and an intercultural outlook that generates shared experiences.
Since 2018 with Lima inquieta, IESA arts&culture has partnered with the Embassy of Peru in France to organize a Quipu exhibition each year in the school’s gallery. These exhibitions are designed and produced entirely by a group of IESA students as part of a workshop led by an experienced curator or art historian.
The theme of Quipu 2022 is the Andean Amazon. That is why second-year students in the Bachelor in Arts Management and the pre-master students, accompanied by Argentine curator Laura Petrecca, are organizing an exhibition on the work of Peruvian artist Marco Herrera, currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, thanks to his prize in the Passeport pour un artiste competition organized by the Alliance française de Lima.
About the work of Marco Herrera.
The exhibition titled El arcoiris sale en vaciante offers a vision of the Amazon through the work of Marco Herrera, an artist who interprets original Amazonian rituals using elements of nature, worked in the traditional manner of the peoples of this part of Peru. When the boundary between what we think we know and the unknown is broken, what we call ritual defines and delimits our individual and social experience. A world of possible creations then opens up.
The Andean Amazon
The term "Andean Amazon" refers to the origin of the Amazon River, fed by the rivers of the Andean highlands before forming the undulating floodplain that extends to the Atlantic Ocean. Amazonian tropical vegetation then extends across the foothills of the Andes to nearly 2000 meters above sea level, forming the upper Amazon. The Andean Amazon is home to more than fifty indigenous peoples who maintain sustainable ways of life, in balance with the environment, rich in practices passed down from generation to generation. Today, these peoples, threatened by urban sprawl, are fighting to preserve their living space and assert their rights. These struggles have given rise to dynamic artistic and cultural movements that make them far more visible.
El arcoiris sale en vaciante from November 8 to 17, 2022 at the IESA gallery - 1 cité Griset, 75011 Paris.
Opening hours: 10:00 to 18:30
Private tours by reservation:
Chiara Corrado: chicor202@gmail.com
