HUACAS BY YERKO ZLATAR
Huaca is a Quechuan notion that refers to the sacred. Although it can allude to locations, artifacts or objects, it is commonly associated with the architecture of the Incaic period.
In a state of ruin, the huacas are either ocher or gray, like adobe and stone, and blends into the landscape, ignoring its original multicolored magnificence. Its eroded and bare structure is like a skull, barely able to tell us about the face it once was. It is just the figure of an elemental structure, but with the power to evoke mystery, philosophy and a returned past.
The simple and clear geometry, intelligence of all original structures that enabled the construction of colossal complexes in Peruvian antiquity, is a main source of inspiration for Yerko Zlatar. This exhibition shows works that use the huaca as a direct reference, approached from figuration or abstraction. With drawing, painting or wollen fabric.
Manuela Barreiro, May 2022
He has a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London (2002) in addition to having studied Art Direction and Production Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (2002), Fine Arts at Corriente Alterna, Lima (2001) and in Formulas and Processes of Photography at Centro de la Imagen, Lima (1999).
In the year 2000 he won the first Phlilips Award for Young Talents, and presented his works at the Memorial Da America Latina museum in Sao Paolo, Brazil. During his years in London, he experimented with digital art, video art and experimental music, focusing his work on themes such as modern architecture, ancient cultures, mysticism and technology. In 2003 he was part of the group of founding artists of Cretasico, one of the pioneering programs in the promotion and investigation of experimental music in Peru. Throughout his career he has participated in collective exhibitions in London, Paris, Nice and Lima.