Between March and June, the exhibition Peru: New iconographiesas part of the Costa Rica Design Weekshowed a selection of Peruvian contemporary designwhich was the guest of honor at the Central American Festival. The work of more than 50 names that stand out in disciplines that are going to be presented From the graph to architecture. The sample was one of the most important compendiums of Peruvian design mounted to date.
“It has been historical. Something like that has never been done, and the unusual thing is that it has not been done in Peru, but outside, ”said the Graphic Designer José Antonio Mesonesco -director of the Office Partners (and professionally known as Goster), in charge of the selection and museography of the Peruvian pavilion next to the Architect Sergio Guzmánin turn director of the Méctamo Office.
The research and exhibition was also revealing for its curators, surprised by “the ability of synthesis and abstraction of pre -Hispanic iconography that crosses us, more explicitly or less explicitly to this day,” Mesons explained. “Peruvian culture is mixing and inheritance. It is the past resisting and giving new meaning to the future, ”said the curatorial text.
Peru does not have a museum dedicated to design. He Lima Art Museum He probably has one of the best design collections and makes one of the greatest efforts to expose it (with his auctions exclusively dedicated to the subject, for example), but there is no space itself to review The background and contemporary work of local design.
In this context, the exhibition in Costa Rica stands out further, which, by the way, was almost entirely possible for a private effort – without state funds – and thanks to the collaboration between the organizers and the participants of the sample.
To understand the relevance and horizon of Peruvian design, we gathered five creators and offices that stand out and participated in the Costa Rica event.
«Interwoven», the installation that the Leonmarcial Office – that Alexia León is co -director – presented at the Biennial of Venice 2021.Lucho Marcial and Gegori Civera
Alexia León
The Peruvian architect is co -director of the Leonmarcial Officetogether with Marcial Lucho. It is one of the most recognized and awarded architects in the country: it has been Finalist of the Mies Van der Rohe of Latin American Architectureas well as nominated to receive the Marcus Prize in architecture.