The artwork features a striking abstract composition with bold, expressive brushstrokes. The dominant colors are shades of blue, green, and gray, creating a sense of movement and dynamism. The overall shape resembles a figure or form, but it is abstracted and stylized, suggesting an emphasis on the formal elements rather than realism. The artist's distinctive technique employs thick, gestural paint application, evoking a sense of spontaneity and emotion. This abstract piece likely aims to convey a symbolic or metaphorical interpretation of the human experience, reflecting the artist's personal perspective on the complexities of the modern world. ...
Iosu Aramburu is a visual artist who works with painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the imagination of a multifaceted modernity and its utopian potentials. His research project revisits early and mid-century modernism in the Andean region, through the creation of an atlas of forgotten images that aims to map the changing sensibilities in the region.
He has been part of exhibitions and international fairs. His work is included in collections such as the MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (New York-Caracas), the SPACE Collection (Los Angeles), the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), the Hochschild collection (Lima), among others. He is a founder member of Bisagra and has been a resident of the Fonderie Darling in Montreal, La Ene in Buenos Aires and Triangle France in Marseille. In 2018 he won the First Contest of Contemporary Art of the ICPNA and the National Contest Plaza Paz Soldán, both in Lima; in 2012 he won the III Arcos Dorados-ArteBA Latin American Painting Competition in Buenos Aires and the third place in the XV Visual Arts Competition “Pasaporte para un artista” in Lima. Between 2010 and 2017 he was a professor at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna. In 2021 he won the MoMA Artists Research Fellowship / Cisneros Institute. ...
80M2 Livia Benavides is an art gallery specialised in Peruvian conceptual art. The gallery opened in Lima as a response to a scarce infrastructure for the arts. From then on, the gallery is focused on developing critical discourses on contemporary issues. We are interested in different voices, practices and aesthetics focused on political and social reflection. By promoting the works of established and emerging artists who have influenced the local artistic scene, we intend to introduce new names internationally. The gallery strives to build bridges between the local and international contributing to an interchange that goes beyond borders. 80m2 Livia Benavides advocates for non- conventional exhibitions spaces that transcends the white box experience. With the intend to reach a broader spectrum of the community and to rethink exhibition venues. ...
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