Saturday 11 August, 2018
7:30pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
To coincide with Coliflor, Esteban Igartua’s solo exhibition, Proyecto AMIL is pleased to invite you to a conversation between the artist and our director, Joel Yoss.
Since the beginning of his career, Igartua has impacted the local art scene for both the virtuosity of his practice, and the starkness of his representations of the natural and social world. Coliflor continues this investigation, exploring the thin line that separates the fascination for beauty and abundance and the rejection that certain forms of voluptuousness and “excess of life” generate.
In dialogue with Joel Yoss, Igartua will take his exhibition at Proyecto AMIL as a starting point to give a retrospective look at the interests that traverse his practice; as well as presenting his most recent projects.
About the artist
Esteban Igartua (Lima, 1974) lives and works in Bristol. He has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Catholic University of Peru and post-graduate degree from the Slade School of Arts and Byam Shaw in London. Recent exhibitions include: Excursion, Garua (Lima, 2015); Campo Ocupado, Revolver Gallery (Lima, 2012); The Culture Clash, Working Rooms (London, 2008); Prophet, Spike Island (Bristol, 2008); among many others. His work has been featured in catalogues such as the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2003) and more recently in 77 artistas contemporaneos peruanos (2017), published by the Museo Mario Testino-MATE.
The conversation will take place in English.
