Alberto Revoredo

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The pre-Hispanic resource is something that has been exploited enough in national art. The first solo by Gustavo Emé (Lima, 1982), however, incorporates a peculiar element: he uses Paint, the primitive Windows program, to design and create a simple, yet complex language. The artist confesses that he uses this system because it is universal and basic in terms of resources.

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"City" is the result of a graphic association of ancestral worldviews and contemporary signs that refer us to urban spaces, with allusions to transit, traffic and the chaos that the city produces. A work that transits between the figurative and the abstract, between printing and oil, proposing a playful, colorful and lush strategy.

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“As a result of a trip I realized that I wanted to do a job that spoke of my place, of my city. What I try to overturn is the idea of chaos, saturation, a mixture of ideologies and idiosyncrasies, power relations and the management of knowledge between the First and Third Worlds”, says the young artist.

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To create the conceptual vein of the proposal, the painter uses intricate arguments such as the third law of thermodynamics, which states that in any closed system, entropy increases. "That idea helps me to make a mutation, which goes from a pre-Columbian idol to a kind of aerial view of the plan of some ruins," adds Emé. 

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The chromatic saturation and the cramming of forms allow an indirect reminiscence to the design of some pre-Hispanic textiles, particularly Paracas and Nasca. “It is not obvious at first glance, but there are figures that are repeated completely and semi-completely several times, as well as opposite and inverted identical images, in a kind of cartography”, concludes the artist, who plans to continue in the line of digital works .

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PLACE: Special Activities Room. Pavilion F-3, University of the Pacific. ADDRESS: Av. Salaverry 2020, Jesús María.