ART/LIFE

Herbert Rodriguez’s Art/Life proposal gives an account of the turmoil of violence and chaos in 1980s Peruvian history. The artist creates works in which he juxtaposes texts and photographs (graphic documentation of newspapers and magazines) to confront the authoritarian practices of Governments (ex Presidents Fernando Belaúnde and Alan García) and extremist left-wing groups. He utilizes a wide range of mediums (painting, collage, assemblages, photocopy, monotypes, textile prints) to create raw images of visual critique. These works have been displayed in art halls, underground concerts and festival-happenings. At the end of the 1980s he brings his aesthetic of desperation-disgust to universities and parks. Joining the Peru Campaign: Life and Peace proposal to call on wider society to propel a citizen mobilization under the principle that from peace justice is born, attacking the structural situation of poverty.