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d e of Living Huarochiri 19" x 8" Charcoal on paper PRESENTACIN URBANO ASTUYAURI, es un pintor cuya obra est desde hace mucho tiempo empeada con pasin y placer en la recuperacin del pasado preinca y ahora del arte popular del pas mediante la presencia en sus cuadros de elementos folklricos de la cultura peruana con un rigor recreativo que no desmiente jams su origen. Sus obras se presentan bajo un doble denominador: la riqueza textual de sus materias y la libertad de formulaciones. Conserva como pintor la visin del nio a la cual une la inclinacin del artista actual que busca el logro de un lenguaje plstico que valga por si solo. De ah, que la figuracin no sea un intento de retratar los objetos y los seres en el lienzo como un procedimiento, el cuadro se define por la relacin que se establece internamente, en lo profundo del smbolo, entre formas y colores y entre la correspondencia de efectos y motivaciones. Lo cual es el meollo terico de su pintura tanto constructiva como lricamente La pintura de Astuyauri contiene numerosos elementos que rompen los esquemas habituales de la concepcin tradicional de la imagen, mas bien l est constantemente enfrentando en forma dialctica valores compositivos conceptuales, armazones geomtricas y fuentes lumnicas artificiales en el que conjugan personas y animales en el ms absoluto espritu representativo con fondos abstractos. Con tcnica impecable Astuyauri implanta dentro de esos espacios controlados, objetos perfectamente identificables como juguetes: camioncitos, barquitos, burritos, nios campesinos jugando, manteniendo en todo momento la identidad de las partes sin romper la homogeneidad de la obra. La materia opaca y austera est acorde con el tema y el contenido mediante la funcin referencial, representando esos objetos inertes Astuyauri logra una particularidad eficacia comunicativa que a l le interesa pues no quiere permanecer indiferente ante la desaparicin de leyendas y mitos, de esos objetos hermosos del arte popular que perenniza en sus telas. Su pintura no es, sin embargo, crnica realista o figuracin narrativa ya que las diversas articulaciones sintcticas la sitan en otra dimensin mas compleja en la cual tambin hay un discurso sobre la pintura, sus artificios y su carcter ldico. Jorge Bernuy Crtico de Arte En Astuyauri hay un elemento ms: el de su manera popular de recoger esas virtualidades que emplea como asidero de su gusto cromtico por la riqueza de las texturas aterciopeladas de rojos, amarillos y dorados. El se inspira en la sencillez del artesano que trabaja sus juguetes en madera blanca de eucalipto con tintes de colores manteniendo el candor campesino, no como desvalor sino como fuerza que conduce de acuerdo a su inters visual. Curioso fruto es la pintura de Astuyauri donde se juntan la vieja sabidura del campesino con sus mitos y leyendas que l asimila en sus pinturas porque l naci y vivi desde nio en el pueblo mtico de Parac, pueblo perteneciente a Huarochir, donde Urbano fue curado por el brujo de la localidad contra la mala suerte mediante una ceremonia de cnticos, alcohol y coca . Trumpets Oil on canvas 34.6" x 37" PRESENTATION URBANO ASTUYAURI, is a Peruvian painter whose creatrions become from a large term, pleged of pasion and pleasure to the recuperation of pre-inca Era and the popular art of the country by means of the pictures presence of folflore elements from Per's culture by a recreative striness, which no disemble its origin nevermore. His Works present themselves with a double denominator: the texture richess of materias and the freedom in formulations. As a Young painter, he preserves a child visin, so he joins the actual artist who gets the gain of a plastic lenguaje, itself valuable, thence, that figuration shouln't be an intendment of draw portraits of objects and essences on the linen clothes a proccedure, the picture define itself by means the relation, internally established, in the profund of symbol among colours and shapes and the correspondence of motivations and effects. That's the theoric kerne of his painting so constructive as lirically. In Astuyauri there is an adding element of his popular manner of gather those virtualities, that he makes use as a pretex of his chromatic taste by means of the velvety texture in red, yellow and Golden wealth. He inspires himself in the simplicity of artesans who makes their wooden toys in White colour of eucalyptus tree with colour spots maintaining the country's candor, not like a shelf, besides a conductor force in according to his visual interest. A curions fruit is the Astuyauri's painting in wich the ancient sapience of rural men, combine with the legend and mith, which he has assimilated in his creations, because he has born and lived in the mitic town of Parac, Huarochir, a land where Urbano once were cured by a folkloric brujo a kind of empiric physician who Works against some illenss. The Astuyauri's painting contents several elements, which break the habitual schemes in the traditional concepts of image. Of coure, he is constantly confronting in a dialectic, conceptual mode and compositive values, geometric skeltons and artificial and luminous fountains, in which persons and animals conjugate each others in the most absolute and representative spirit with abstract funds. Owner of an impeccable tecnic, Astuyauri implants within those controlled objects perfectly identificable: as toys, little truks, little ships, little donkeys, rural children playing, maintaining forever the identy of elements without out break the homogenity in the manufacture. The severe and opaque materia is according with the theme and the contents by virtue of the referencial function, performing those dull objects, Astuyauri gets a particular communicative efficacy, important to him, because he doesn't want to be indiferent in front of the desapperance of legends and miths, beautiful objects of popular art, which are perpetual in his creations. His painting arent't, however, a realist chronicle or a narrative, because the diverse sintactic articulations locate them in another dimension, more complex in which there is also a reasoning about the painting, its artfices and its ludic carcter. George Bernuy Critic of Art Home Oil on canvas 47.3" x 38.3". Traveling the river Oil on canvas 31.4" x 39". Autumn Oil on canvas 39.2" x 47" URBANO ASTUYAURI SOTO 1961 - Naci en Huarochiri Lima - Per 1988 - Egres de la Escuela Nacional de Bellas artes del Per con el Primer Premio Promocin Cristina Galvez EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES 1988 - Casa del Artista, TRUJILLO PER 1990 - ENTRE EL MITO Y LA LEYENDA Galera Vargas, LIMA PER 1992 - Galera Vargas, LIMA - PER 2001 - Centro Cultural Recoleta, BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA 2004- Galeria de Arte PRAXIS, LIMA PERU 2014 - Feathered Serpent Gallery, Tampa , Flo. U.S.A. EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS (seleccin )
1989 - Galera de Exposiciones Luis Felipe de las Casas Grive SENADO DE LA REPUBLICA DEL PERU 1990 - Galera los Tajibos, Santa Cruz - Bolivia 1991 - Galera de Arte Argo, Viena - Austria 1993 - Galera Of the Eccentre Miami, Florida EE.UU. 1993 - Galeria Brikell Square Miami, Florida EE.UU. 1995 - Museo de la Nacin, Lima - Per 1996 - Die Galerie Klostermhle, Hude - Alemania 1996 - Kunsthalle der Kfw, Kreditanstalf Fr Wiederaufbau - Alemania 1997 - Municipalidad de Copenhague - Dinamarca 1997 - Instituto Cervantes, Bremen - Alemania 1997 - Galerie von Knobel Sdorf, Haseldorf - Alemania 1997 - Galerie Gerhard, Bad Berleburg - Alemania 1998 - Galerie Rathaus Achim, Stadt Achim - Alemania 1998 - Gallerys Union Square Geary Steet , San Francisco - EE.UU 1998 - Centro de Participacin Colon, Crdova - Argentina 1998 - VII Bienal de Arte Sacro, Salas Nacionales de Cultura Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires - Argentina 1998 - Feria de Arte Latinoamericana Arteamrica, Madrid - Espaa 1999 - Die Galerie Klostermhle, Hude - Alemania 2000 - Regus Business Centre Bremen, Bremen - Alemania 2001 - Haus der Diakonie, Braunschweig - Alemania 2001 - Galerie Signatur, Mnster - Alemania 2003 - El taller Latino Americano, Nueva York EE.UU. 2003- 1221 Brickell Equities Corporation Ltd., Miami - EE.UU. 2004 - Die Galerie Klostermhle, Hude - Alemania 2005 - Atelier East En, Delmenhorst-Alemania. 2006 - Museo de la Nacion, Lima-Peru. 2007 - Galeria Onil, Bremen-Alemania. 2009 - Galeria Onil, Bremen-Alemania. 2010 - Noche de Arte Lima- Per 2013 -Peruvian Colors Tampa EE. UU. Rider in the magical Oil on canvas 39.2" x 39.3" URBANO ASTUYAURI SOTO 1961 - He born in Huarochir Lima- Peru 1988 - Egresses from the National School of Beautiful Arts of Peru, witch the First Prize in the painting specialty Cristina Glvez promotion. 1995 - First Mention of honor in the first painting aid Johnnie Walker, Lima. Selected Peru 1998. 1998 - Selected Peru in the VII Biennial of Sacred art, Buenos Aires Argentina. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 1988 - House of the Arts Trujillo, Peru. 1990 Between the myth and the Legend Vargas Gallery, Lima. 1992 - Vargas Gallery Files Peru. 2001 - Cultural Center, Recoleta Buenos Aires Argentina. 2004 - Praxis Gallery of Art, the International Files, Peru.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 1989 - Gallery of Exhibition Luis Felipe de las Casas Grieve ,SENATE OF REPUBLIC. LIMA 1990 - Los tabijos Gallery, Santa Cruz Bolivia. 1991 - Argo, Gallery of Art, Viena Austria. 1993 - Of Gallery, The Eccentre, Miami, Flo. U.S.A 1993 - Brikel square Gallery Miami, Flo U.S.A 1995 - Museum of Nation, Files Peru. 1996 - Die Gallery Klostermuhle, Hude Germany. 1996 - Kunsthalle der Kfw. Kreditanstalf fur wiederauflau, Germany. 1997 - Copenhage Torren Hall Copenhage, Denmark. 1997 - Cervantes Institute, Bremen Germany. 1997 - Knobel Dford Gallery, Haselfdorf Germany. 1997 - Gerhard Gallery, Bad Berleburg Germany 1998 Rathaus Achim, Stadt Achim, Germany. 1998 - Union Gallery, Geary street square Sn. Francisco U.S.A. 1998 - Participation Center Colon, Cordova Argentina. 1998 - VII National Bienal of Sacred Art Rooms of Culture Palais De Glace Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1998 - Latin American Fair of Art Arteamrica, Madrid, Spain 1999 - The Klostermuhle Gallery, Hude, Germany 2001 - Haus der Diakonie, Braunschwig, Germany. 2001 - Galerie Signatur, Munster, Germany. 2002 - Sunjin Galleries, Singapur. 2003 - Latin American Factory, New York N.Y., U.S.A. 2003 - Brickell Equities Corporation Ltd. Miami, Flo, U.S.A. 2004 - Die Gallerie Klostermuhle, Hude , Germany. 2004 - The National Museum of Costa Rica, San Jose City . 2005 - Atelier East En, Delmenhorst-Alemania. 2006 - Museo de la Nacion, Lima-Peru. 2007 - Galeria Onil, Bremen-Alemania. 2009 - Galeria Onil, Bremen-Alemania. 2010 - Noche de Arte Lima- Per 2013 -Peruvian Colors Tampa EE. UU.