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At Fundación Sebastian
Peruvian visual artist Victor Delfín presents his first solo exhibition
April 06, 2016Peruvian sculptor, painter and craftsman Victor Delfin (Lobitos, Peru, Dec. 20, 1927) comes to Mexico to show for the first time a solo exhibition. This artist who has a recognized career worldwide is considered one of the masters of Andean art
"Mexico has seemed to me beautiful, its museums, its vegetation and the friendliness of the Mexican people. It is my first solo exhibition in Mexico, I am delighted with the place, the room is great, I did not expect such beautiful spaces to display” the artist said a few hours of his arrival.
"My work is a series of large paintings about birds of America generally, and some of the Andean region of Peru’s landscapes, I am a figurative painter who work in both painting and sculpture, and I love these two ways of expressing myself, and I also make crafts”.
"Being in Mexico makes me feel that I will have one of the happiest exhibitions, and well, I come to Mexico, about to turn 90 years old and I know better late than never", he said joyfully.
Contemporary and friend of Nobel Prize awarded writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who has dedicated some words to his work and they have been together in many meetings. "We are now engaged and working together to achieve a political change in our country”, visual artist said who also has stood out as human rights and democratic freedoms defender in their country.
Victor Delfin referred to his readings, but recognizes that literature has its own particular quirks and it has not influenced his work: "I start from the folk arts of Peru, my work is closely linked to these themes and pre-Columbian art specially from the region where I was born, which is filled of Peru’s very important and fundamental cultures, with birds and fauna elements and the coast of my country. "
His roots marked by the Paracas culture (an important pre-Columbian civilization of ancient Peru, 700 B.C. - 200 A.D.), show a work with a wide range of materials: wood, metal, fabric, acrylic, even polychrome and aluminum.
"There are no noble materials, all materials are ennobled through creation. My topic is popular art, my country’s problems, everything related to Peru interests me, it’s a country with a variety of cultural events, and several cultures that are trying to synchronize to form what we call miscegenation. What I do is not a copy but try to extract some of my ancerstor’s strength. I am deeply proud to be Peruvian”, the artist, who started at 10 in the drawing, said.
Since the 60’s, Victor Delfín surprised with the use of industrial waste and obsolete metal objects resulting suggestive plasticity figures, which shape contrasted with rough components. To this period belong the Bestiario (Beasts) and Aves de América (Birds of America) collections. He has made successive exhibitions of painting, sculpture and decorative objects, showing a clearly recognizable style.
His solo exhibitions in Lima during that decade attracted attention by the convergence of the principles and techniques of painting and sculpture in a collection of works that the artist called Retablos.
Victor Delfin, who has had a great influence in his country on the development of Peruvian art in the second half of the twentieth century, has been awarded several prizes and honors. He won the National Prize for Painting Ignacio Merino (1959) and the National Biennial of Contemporary Crafts Prize of Lima (1967). He was awarded by the Peruvian government with the Peruvian Cross of Military Merit in rank of Knight (1974).
His house museum in Barranco, an old house redesigned by the artist and well equipped with paintings, sculptures and other art objects, which is at the same time his studio, it is in itself a work of art of great tourist attraction.
The artist is known for his work with sculptures in metal, wood, and paintings of birds, horses and other animals, as well as female and family portraits, with a marked accent for life and the Andean landscape. His work has had a major political issue, as the chronicle of 1996 in which he denounced, with great irony, the corruption and the authoritarianism during Alberto Fujimori’s regime.
One of his best known works is El beso (The Kiss), a monument on display since 1993 at el Parque del Amor of Miraflores district in Lima, that has become a reference for Lima’s newlyweds and lovers to celebrate the wedding or Valentine's day on February 14th.
Among his best known works include the facade of the Chorrillos Military School (1974); the Túpac Amaru sculpture (2000) for the chapel of the man of the Guayasamin Foundation in Quito, Ecuador. His art has been exhibited throughout South and North America as well as in several European countries, and it is in museums and private collections.
The Delfín exhibition will be inaugurated this Thursday, April 7th at 19:30 pm in the Fundación Sebastian and will remain until 7 May 7th. The Fundación Sebastián is located at Avenida Patriotismo No. 304, Colonia San Pedro de los Pinos, between Calle 7 and Calle 5 . Delegación Benito Juárez.
Information about the author’s exhibition in Mexico can be found at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchFmuWUs4s
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