"... All that rigor or seriousness that it shapes in his pictures is surrounded or masked by alive, glad colors and of a great expresividad... "

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     Quispejo               

Julio Quispe Virhuez

Quispejo was born in Ancash, Peru. He developed his studies in Lima in the national School of Fine Arts, graduated in 1973 with the Gold medal, and recieved the Enrique Camino Brent prize in painting.
Founder member of the Puka Punku group.
He has participated in diverse exhibitions individual as collective, national and as much international.

It’s as if the cliffs and angles of the Andes Mountains have been compared with the indigenous people of Peru. The beings 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".