GRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCES [Peru - Switzerland]
Place: Taller Estampida
The global health emergency has implied rethinking work strategies in the different areas, and artistic creation is not alien to this new scenario. Correspondence and virtual connection have become an indispensable part of the new coexistence, and have directed human communication to a new spectrum that can transform the work of many people around the world. The characteristics of contemporary engraving provide us with communication and collaboration tools that allow us to give continuity to graphic production in order to respond to the challenges that the new normality faces us.
Estampida taller, Correlación Contemporánea and Swiss artists propose to develop a cultural exchange between Peru and Switzerland through graphic publishing. So, different ways of understanding the work of art production are linked: conceptualizing, editing and printing together with collaborative creation at a distance challenge. Something that is typical of globalization time and confinement. This project assumes the inherent collective practice of printmaking workshops and the visual exchange that digital correspondence allows in these times.
Finally, the participation of Correlación Contemporánea in Correspondencias gráficas a distancia, graphic correspondence at distance (Peru - Switzerland), seeks to select and train the process of young Peruvian artists dedicated to graphics. And provide them with a space for learning and experimenting the process of edition, in order to contribute and give them the opportunity to experience the labor field offered by engraving and graphic arts in general.
Work team:
- Christi Zorrilla [Correlación Contemporánea]
- David Pimentel [Taller Estampida]
- Marco Herrera [Correlación Contemporánea]
- Laura Hauser [Coordinación - Suiza]
With the support of:
- Embajada Suiza en el Perú
- Fondo Cultural Suizo
In collaboration witn:
- Taller Estampida
Selected Artists
Claudia Campos [Peru]
Visual artist and illustrator. Current studying fine arts with a major in Engraving at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Winternitz Prize winner in 2017. She has illustrated articles for university magazines such as Punto Seguido (UPC) and Extramuros (PUCP), an artistic-literary collective of which she is a member. She has also illustrated for ACUEDI (Association for Digital Culture and Education).
Jois Arrasco [Peru]
Plastic and visual artist with a major in Engraving at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. Jois seeks to build aesthetics to speak about world order perception, cultural practices vestiges and the staging of spaces that show the individual proximity and memory of the place that they occupy, could be the house, the non-places and / or the street. Her work is developed within interdisciplinary processes such as drawing, collage, printmaking and photography.
Lara Hauser [Switzerland]
Lives and works in Zurich (CH). After her bachelor in Art Education (ZHdK) she completed a Master of Arts in Secondary Education (PH FHNW) to teach Art&Crafts in highschools. Beside she works as an Illustrator. Her favorite disciplines in the arts are drawing, illustration and analogue printing techniques. She likes to explore the potential of different techniques and materials, to show ideas, thoughts and ineffable things.
Laura Curatolo [Switzerland]
Lives and works in Zurich (CH). She is a trained graphic designer and completed her bachelor in “Trends & Identity” (ZHdK). Graphic Design is still part of her interests, but she also works in wide and interdisciplinary fields between illustration, tattooing, creating visuals for concerts or organizing cultural events. Furthermore, she is part of many collectives like the feminist collective “F96”, “Manufliktur” (visible mending) and “Katakombe” (cultural happenings). For these purposes, she’s experimenting with different analogue and digital techniques and keeps constantly drawing in her flashbooks. For her, one thing inspires the other.
Maca Cerquera [Peru]
He studied architecture at the Palermo University in Buenos Aires - Argentina, where she began her studies in arts. She developed her artistic career in that city 8 years ago. She works from an abstract perspective on topics such as landscape, the city, photography and memory. Through synthesis and geometry she explores various techniques such as drawing, embroidery and ceramics.
Mara Frey [Netherlands]
Currently lives and works in Amsterdam (NL). She is part of the socio-cultural project “Stichting Bildung” and works as an Illustrator. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Art Education (HSLU), she organized and participated in various exhibitions. In her artistic practice, she is experimenting with everyday materials in combination with the creative processes of sculpturing and different drawing and collage techniques.
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