Equator Gallery

presents

Julio Quispe Virhuez

Quispejo 

in his premier exhibition in Boston 

August 1st-30th

Reception with the artist:

August 8th 7-9 pm

RSVP: tel. 617.266.4110 or [email protected]

About the artist:  

    Julio Quispe Virhuez (Quispejo) was born in 1945 in Ancash, Peru. he developed his studies in Lima in the national School of Fine Arts. he graduated in 1973 with the Gold medal, and recieved the Enrique Camino Brent prize in painting.

        "Quispejo is a genuine indigenist painter in his compositions. He uses a purely indigenist palette, often rich in ochres and dusty hues reflective of the landscape that he paints. This unquestionable message that is being expressed is a celebration of the beauty in the rigors of daily life.  The characters of Quispejo walk amidst these minimalist traditions, a simple poncho and hat as the constant symbol of the artist's blend of indigenism, and neofigurativism.  In a country where indigenous art is the norm, Quispejo has stood out among his peers for the past 25 years. As a true master of his genre, Quispejo's work is the truest reflection of life in Peru today." 

          -Daniel Lahoda, Equator Gallery director 

Selected International Exhibitions 1990-present 

2002- Equator Gallery- Boston, MA. USA
2000- Kunst Aus Peru Historischeo- Germany
1999- “Arte America” 2nd International Latin 
            American Art Exhibition-Germany & Spain
1998- “In the Shadow of Sipan”- Cordoba, Spain
            Museo de Bellas Artes- Seville, Spain
            Museo de Cadiz- Cadiz, Spain
            Museo de los Americas- Madrid, Spain
1997- Casa de la Cultura- Lima, Peru
1996- Casa de las Vacas Gallery, Madrid, Spain
           Museo de las Americas- Puerto Rico
           Embassy of the USA- Lima, Peru
1995- Galleria 715-Lima, Peru
           ARAFI ‘95- Miami, USA
           Gallery Work 2- Okinawa, Japan 
1994-Residency at the North American Embassy- 
          Lima, Peru
          Tropical Techno Center Guwa Gallery- Okinawa,
          Japan
1993- Galeria de Arte ‘92-Lima, Peru
           Centro Cultural Japones- Lima, Peru
           Society American Medicals Miami, USA
           Arte del Peru- Miami, USA
           Galeria de Arte Matices- Puerto Rico
1992- Residency at the US Embassy- Lima, Peru
1991-Bacardi Art Gallery- Miami, USA
1990-Galleria Taller MTD- Caracas, Venezuela

This is a very partial list of the artist's exhibitions. Please contact us for a complete list.

More about the artist:  The following is excerpted from our catalog of the artist's works.

"It’s as if the cliffs and angles of the Andes Mountains have been compared with the indigenous people of Peru. The characters of Quispejo offer in a glance, a tenacity of stony resistance; a feeling that through the impossibly difficult, love and vitality will prevail. In Quispejo’s paintings aggression does not emerge from the interior of the men and women like it does in their environment. It is equal to the slow erosion of a mountain that has been forced 
upon them, one that they have accepted to avoid environmental adversity. In that gesture to prevail, all individual identity is lost in the social dimension. Without faces their figures reflect the universality of our lives. These figures remain as “human shapes”, like living mountain ranges animated deeply by a single will defined by the artist. 
    This geologic allusion nevertheless is adjusted by the happiness of color. If the forms transmit the harshness and the rigor of the fight, then the colors reveal the gentleness of the experience that accompanies this dynamic human form. Here the colors are individualized. The identity is a shade, a “profile”, a “voice” that explores the diversity of the telluric and indigenous choir. As they are carved from the artist’s personal reality into the universal, the beings of Quispejo now conquer their march into history." 

                                                                       -Equator Gallery 2002