Jorge Eduardo Eielson
Jorge Eduardo Eielson | |
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Born | April 13, 1924 |
Died | March 8, 2006 |
Occupation(s) | Artist, writer |
Jorge Eduardo Eielson (April 13, 1924 – March 8, 2006) was a Peruvian artist and writer. As an artist, he is known for his quipus, a reinterpretation of an ancient Andean device, they are considered precursors of conceptual art.[1]
Life and career
Eielson was born in
In the same year, he traveled to Paris under a French government scholarship, in that city he exhibited at the Colette Allendy gallery before traveling to Switzerland thanks to a UNESCO scholarship. In 1951, he traveled to Italy for a summer vacation and decided to settle permanently in Rome. During this period he wrote the collection of poems Habitación en Roma and two novels: El cuerpo de Giulia-No and Primera muerte de María. In the late 1950s, he abandoned avant-garde and resorts to using materials such as earth, sand and clay to sculpt in the canvas surface; at first he uses this technique to depict landscapes but gradually moves towards human figures represented through clothing of various kinds. In 1963, he started his first quipu, reinventing this ancient Andean device with fabrics of brilliant colors, knotted and tied on canvas. Eielson's quipus were exhibited in the 1964 Venice Biennale to wide acclaim[citation needed]. In the mid-1970s, he traveled to Peru where he devoted himself to the study of pre-Columbian art; during this period, the Instituto Nacional de Cultura (National Institute of Culture) published most of his poetry under the title Poesía escrita. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978 for a lecture in New York.[2]
Written works:[4]
- Poetry
- Reinos (1944)
- Canción y muerte de Rolando (1944 and 1959)
- Mutatis mutandis (1967)
- Poesía escrita (1976)
- Canto visible (1977)
- Noche oscura del cuerpo (1989)
- Novel
- El cuerpo de Giulia-No (1971)
Notes
- ^ Bayón, "Art", p. 427.
- ^ a b Canfield, Jorge Eielson Archived June 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
- ^ Tauro, Enciclopedia, vol. VI, p. 883.
- ^ Tauro, Enciclopedia, vol. VI, p. 884.
References
- Bayón, Damián. "Art, c. 1920–c. 1980". In: Leslie Bethell (ed.), A cultural history of Latin America. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1998, pp. 393–454.
- Canfield, Martha. Jorge Eielson biography.
- (in Spanish) Tauro del Pino, Alberto. Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Lima: Peisa, 2001.
External links
- (in Spanish) Jorge Eielson at Peru Cultural
- Jorge Eielson on UbuWeb