About
Every Moment is a Memory
From the Artist:
Tuta is a word of the Quechua language meaning “NIGHT”. Under that idea I think this work symbolically represents the night. I used abstract art as my particular technique for my creative freedom and I was influenced the pre-Columbian art from my country (Inka art is born, wari etc, as part of my heritage). I was interested in the purist art of these cultures without influence from other art rather than produced by itself, the naturalness of their strokes that evoke nature; the work is done in cool colors with mastery of blue, representing symbolically night, the moonlight, all forms are products of my subconscious, forms emerging from the darkness of my mind and give rise to the picture, I paint the moon as the core of painting, represented in the circle as a face that is vigilant and who is king of the night, for the old moon is a mother goddess known as breast and keel, protector of the fertility and represents the feminine nature, it was important to calculate time because time is mediated by the lunar phases.
Portrait of the artist
Aldo Carhuancho Herrera, c.2010
Aldo Carhuancho Herrera was born in Ayacucho in 1978, grew up in many places between the highlands and the coast of northern Peru. In Cajamarca he discovered his love for art, and in 1998 enrolled the School of Fine Arts of Peru in Lima (Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú (ENSABAP). He graduated in 2004, and participated in exhibitions within Peru and abroad. Many of his works use bold colors and symbols based on the native Quechua language and culture.
Title:
"Tuta", 2008
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Artist:
Aldo Carhuancho Herrera (Peruvian, 1978−)
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Type:
Oil on canvas
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Size:
74 x 60 cm
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Signed:
Lower right
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RHA I.D.#:
RHA-03/2008-008
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Status:
Available for lending to qualified institutions
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