Fernando BryceTraveling Exhibition

After nearly a decade of not having exhibited in Peru, Fernando Bryce presents his anthological exhibition entitled Fernando Bryce. Drawing Modern History. The show is organized by the Museo de Arte in Lima-MALI and Fundación Telefónica, with the support of City Hall in Lima, the Spanish Embassy, Marca País of PromPerú and Telefónica of Peru. Curated by Natalia Majluf and Tatiana Cuevas, the exhibition will remain open until February 5 of 2012. It is the biggest show dedicated to Bryce¿s work since the 2005 anthological exhibition organized by the Fundación Tàpies in Barcelona. The exhibition is divided into two parts. The first one is presented at the Centro Fundación Telefónica and showcases a group of works from Bryce¿s early period. It includes drawings and paintings created in Berlin and Lima-during the second half of the 1990s-that explore several ways of approaching the representation of the local context and its history by the media. The second part of the exhibition is shown at MALI and continues with Tourism / El Dorado, a section of Atlas Peru. Included in this section is one of the most insightful works by Bryce, Visión de la Pintura Occidental (Vision of Western Painting, 2002), an installation inspired by the Museo de Reproducciones Pictóricas of the Universidad Nacional Mayor in San Marcos. The work formulates an ironic commentary on the precarious art system in Peru, the ambivalent relationship between the local environment and the grand tradition of European painting, as well as on the very category of that which is artistic. The great series of drawings exhibited at MALI showcase the programmatic nature that Bryce¿s work has been developing. Thus, by the beginning of the 2000s, his work already contained other regions and chapters of the history of the Twentieth Century. He first approaches critical episodes from the revolutionary cycle and from the Cold War in Latin America, and then investigates the Spanish Civil War, several moments of European colonialism, and World War II. These pieces convey an increasingly more encyclopedic plan, as the juxtaposition of images from very different sources manages to establish a narrative nucleus. After Peru, the traveling exhibition will go to Mexico and will end in Argentina.