{"id":7842,"date":"2025-05-28T17:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/actividades\/se-busca-una-republica\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:06:49","slug":"se-busca-una-republica","status":"publish","type":"actividades","link":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/activities\/se-busca-una-republica\/","title":{"rendered":"The search for a Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The exhibition \u201cThe search for a Republic\u201d by Gonzalo Garc\u00eda Callegari brings together more than 40 paintings, drawings and collages from the series \u201cPeruanismos\u201d, a collection begun in 2009 by the artist.<\/p>\n

The anthropologist and historian Ram\u00f3n Mujica Pinilla points out that \u201cPeruanismos\u201d of Garc\u00eda Callegari \u201creflect the \u201cuses and customs\u201d of Peruvian national politics, but with a jocular visual vocabulary that questions the imaginary Peruvian nationalist\u201d.\u00a0 His paintings, he adds, function as narrative arguments, placing the work of the artist halfway between political caricature and graphic comic stories by exploring \u201cthe deep fissures that impede the realisation of the libertarian ideology of the emancipatory deed\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mujica adds that \u201cin synthesis, the paintings of Garc\u00eda Callegari take the pulse of our pre-modern republic and warn us that in the \u201cimagined community\u201d of our Nation there are no gaps separating its historical past from the present, since the rupture and the change to the future will only come about as a sudden inner illumination within our own conscience\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Gonzalo Garc\u00eda Callegari<\/strong> (Lima, 1971) studied painting at the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Per\u00fa where he also studied Psychology, Anthropology and Philosophy. He is the creator and promoter of the artistic collective Fixed Project Lima since 2019.\u00a0 He has been a member of the second edition of the Accelerator Programme for Latin American Artists (PAAL), organised by BOOM Art Community, in Madrid, in 2024.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda develops concepts such as identity, power, memory and politics, with a strong dose of irony.\u00a0 He has had around twenty solo exhibitions in Peru and Spain and has participated in many residencies, winning several awards in both countries. His work, which forms part of public and private collections, has been shown in group exhibitions and art fairs in Peru, Spain, Portugal, the United States, Uruguay and Macedonia.\u00a0\u00a0 He lives between Lima and Madrid.<\/p>\n