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Events for 28 December, 2007 [ 00:00 ]

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Rediseñando el Diseño - Exhibition

The exhibition "Rediseñando el Diseño" presents work from the graphic design students of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The show features a great variety of projects and pieces made in 2006, which illustrate the possibilities of graphic design: as mediums of communication, editorial and corporation communication, multimedia, audiovisuals and graphic production of textiles and objects.

When: December 14 to January 20 , Monday to Sunday, 10 am - 10 pm
Where: Centro Cultural del PUCP - Av. Camino Real 1075, San Isidro
Free Admission

El árbol y el bosque / electrografìas - Exhibition

Luis García-Zapatero Soto's newest solo exhibition, "El árbol y el bosque / electrografìas", features large scale electrographic impressions. Electrography, the art of producing technologically from photographs with the help of inks and photocopying equipment, is one style García-Zapatero has utilized in his career.

When: December 13 - 31, Monday to Friday: 10:30 am - 8 pm, Saturdays: 11 am - 8 pm
Where: Galeria Lucia de la Puente - Paseo Sáenz Peña 206 A, Barranco
For more information call: 477 - 9740

Re-construídas - Exhibition

Photographs, videos and installations are the mediums used in “Re-construídas”, an exhibit featuring Peruvian artist Patricia Villanueva and Spanish artist Pilar Albarracín. Examples of the works featured are Albarracín’s “Escaparates” photograph series, which shows Albarracín ironically interacting with store mannequins, while Villanueva’s play “Rara Avis”, told through photographs and video, tells the story of a women who visits a plastic surgeon and asks that he mark the areas of her body that need surgery. She then goes to a tattoo parlor and makes the markings permanent.

When: December 6 - January 6, Monday to Sunday, 9 am - 9 pm
Where: Centro Cultural de España - Jr. Natalio Sánchez 181, Santa Beatriz
Free Admission

Oral Cute - Exhibition

"Oral Cute" is Peruvian, but New York-based Cecilia Jurado’s latest solo exhibition. Her photographs, 17 works in medium and large scale, feature the faces of professional models. With them, Jurado hopes to express some contemporary notions of beauty and compare them with those of the past.

When: December 13 - 31, Monday to Friday: 10:30 am - 8 pm, Saturdays: 11 am - 8 pm
Where: Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Paseo Sáenz Peña 206 A, Barranco
For more information call: 477-9740 or 477-0237

Pancho Fierro y el Costumbriso en Lima - Exhibition

To commemorate the bicentennial of Pancho Fierro's birthday, the Cultural Center of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima will present the exhibition "Pancho Fierro y el Costumbriso en Lima". Pancho Fierro was born in 1807 in Rimac. His pieces, which represent every day life in Lima, have toured various galleries in the city this year, but will end their run at the Galería Municipal de Arte Pancho Fierro.

When: December 13 - 29, Monday and Tuesday, 10 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 6 pm and Wednesday to Sunday, 10 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 8 pm
Where: Galería Municipal de Arte Pancho Fierro, Plaza de Armas - Pasaje Santa Rosa 114, Lima
Free Admission

Piazza and Stoll – Photography Exhibition

As part of the MIRAFOTO Festival, María Cecilia Piazza and Hans Stoll present their exhibitions “Historias Íntimas” and “Carretera al Sur”. The people that appear in Piazza’s work, as described by writer Alonso Cueto, are “Lonely but not isolated, dark but not blurry, melancholy but not desolate.” Stoll’s series, on the other hand, is defined by Laura Benetti as “a dialogue that initiates the silent future between the observer and the traveler”.

When: 10 am – 7:30 pm on Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm on Sundays, until January 20th.
Where: Main Gallery of the Centro Cultural de la Cancillería - Jr. Ucayali 391, Lima)
Free admission.

Hilos del pasado - Exhibition

The Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú will exhibit "Hilos del pasado: El aporte francés al legado Paracas", (Threads of the past: The French port to the Paracas legacy). The exhibition is sponsored by the French-Peruvian Foundation and the French Embassy, who recovered the pieces. "Hilos del pasado" has a total of 28 pieces, which six of 40 textiles have been recovered by archaeologist Carmen Thays and her team from the MNAAHP

When: Until January 25, Tuesday to Sunday, 9:30 am - 5 pm
Where: Museo Nacional de Arqueología - Plaza Bolivar s/n, Pueblo Libre
For more information call: 463-5070

Revelaciones no específicas - Exhibition

Artist William Pinillos, who hails from Trujillo, will display his exhibition "Revelaciones no específicas" at the Enlace Arte Contemporáneo. It features 14 pieces in oil and grand scale. Pinillos has studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Trujillo and has exhibited work in galleries in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, the U.S., Chile and Spain. His exhibition at the Enlace will end in December.

When: From November 16 - December 30, Monday to Saturday, 11 am - 8 pm
Where: Enlace Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, Av. Pardo y Aliaga 676, San Isidro
Free admission.