\Teresa BurgaArte Nuevo05.06. - 31.08.2015

The first manifest of Arte Nuevo Group was distributed in the streets against the First American Festival (First Biennial of Lima) in October 1966. Teresa Burga noted in a text for the Arte Nuevo Group 40 year reunion in 2006: “During those years, a group of Peruvian artists discovered that individually we were producing works in which we tried to introduce new image representations in order to revitalize the formal syntax. We decided to work together and as the first presentation of a group we called Arte Nuevo, we produced a happening in El Ombligo de Adán. We realized it across the street from the palace, in a place that wasn‘t a gallery but simply a free space, which permitted us not to worry about the availability of exhibition spaces. I was finishing the period of dark atmospheres during which I utilized expressionist images based on traditional visual codes and support, and I began to introduce references to popular images, based on advertisements or magazine covers, in which I brought together geometric forms, graphic collages and written text. Human figure was loosing its primary role.”