Discovering Peru, from antiquity to the present, through the eyes of great masters. The exhibition in Rome

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere opens its doors to the exhibition Memory of Peru. Photographs 1890-1950, on display from April 4 to May 26. The exhibition leads visitors to discover Peru and its transformations through the images of the South American country’s greatest photographers. The tale of a country’s transformation through the images of its most significant photographers, which synthesizes sixty years of history and changes in the South American country in an exhibition full of different points of view.

Peru, considered one of the cradles of civilization in the world, has experienced a social mutation over the years as a result of the progressive reception of populations fromEurope,Africa and theEast. This post-colonial scenario, which has combined stories of conquest and migration with the social, cultural and geographical elements of an entire country, has been a source of inspiration for numerous artistic expressions, including photography.

The collection allows us to relive this process of construction through the gaze of masters such as Max T. Vargas, Martín Chambi, Carlos y Miguel Vargas, Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, Sebastián Rodríguez, Baldomero Alejoso Walter O. Runcie, to name only a few of the most prominent in this selection. A group of eminent visual creators who pioneered the creation of a Peruvian photographic tradition using the camera as a means to portray, understand and interpret the country.

Thanks to their images (and many others like them) Peru, as we know it today, has emerged as an understandable reality. The authors featured in the exhibition have contributed, each with their own stylistic flair, to the construction of a national identity by depicting not only the natural wonders of the land, the great monuments of the pre-Columbian past and ancestral traditions, including the social conflicts of a changing society, the expansion of the capitalist economy and the aspirations to modernity of an entire people.

The traveling exhibition has already been shown in several cities around the world including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Seúl, Ottawa, Bangkok, Montreal, Madrid, Kuwait, Cairo, Ankara, Marrakech, Lyon, and, soon, will land in Paris. For all information you can call 060608 (daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.) or visit the museum’s official website.

Pictured: César Meza, Campesino cusqueño (1945).

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Discovering Peru, from antiquity to the present, through the eyes of great masters. The exhibition in Rome

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