Luis Jose Estremadoyro

{"Id":2629,"Name":"Luis Jose Estremadoyro","Biography":"\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELUIS JOS\u0026Eacute; ESTREMADOYRO\u003Cbr\u003E(Lima, Per\u0026uacute;. 1955)\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAddress:\u003C/strong\u003E Jos\u0026eacute; de la Torre Ugarte 178 L -14, Per\u0026uacute;.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EE-mail:\u003C/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lje@ec-red.com\u0022\u003Elje@ec-red.com\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lje01@terra.com.pe\u0022\u003Elje01@terra.com.pe\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrajectory\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn 1973 Estremadoyro entered the school of Fine Arts in his native city with the highest grade. A year later he decided to leave the school to start investigating on his own the art of the Old Masters. In 1981 he exhibited for the first time at an international level, representing Peru in the IV Biennial in Medellin, Colombia, where the critics recognized him among the most important Latin American figurative painters. In 1982 he represented Peru again in the Pan American Graphic Arts Program (AGPA) sponsored by Cart\u0026oacute;n y Papel de M\u0026eacute;xico, in Mexico City. In 1989 he won the painting prize for the celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, and in 1990 he traveled to France, invited as a professor at the \u0027\u0026Eacute;cole Nationale des Beaux-Arts\u0027 in Paris, where he lived most of the decade of the nineties.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAt present he lives and works in Lima, Peru. In his latest works Estremadoyro has been experimenting with the possibilities of new technologies to compose his oil paintings.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022museum_border\u0022\u003ESome critiques and published appreciations.\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDar\u0026iacute;o Ruiz G\u0026oacute;mez.\u003C/strong\u003E (IV Biennial in Medellin. Daily \u0026ldquo;El Tiempo\u0026rdquo;. Bogota, 05.15.81)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022...It is clear that old assumptions about what is \u0027Latin American\u0027 have been surpassed, and in most cases what counts is the personal search of one who, without denying an historical and cultural specificity, is creating a coherent pictorial response - be it figurative or conceptual - to the situation that one is living. Such is the case with the Peruvian figurative Estremadoyro, who, endeavoring to recover apparently obsolete techniques - the craft of oil painting in the XVII century, for example - maintains, thanks to the belligerency of this craft, an equilibrium against the chaos, the oppression, the acculturation disguised as false \u0027vanguard\u0027.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EBecause to persevere in the task of symbolizing a space, referencing an object, does not lead in this case to a \u0027regression\u0027, as some na\u0026iuml;vely think, but to a reflection about a particular language, to the recovery of a language that remains not as a dead heritage but as a lucid way to counteract the chaos and the violence of a senseless history...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDaily \u0026ldquo;El Colombiano\u0026rdquo;.\u003C/strong\u003E (Medellin, 05.18.81)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022Gregorio Cuartas (...) belongs to a style of figuration that in Latin America has excellentrepresentatives such as the Chilean Claudio Bravo, the Argentinean Giuffr\u0026eacute; and the Peruvians Aquino and Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeresa del Conde.\u003C/strong\u003E (Visual Arts Director INBA, Mexico D.F. \u0026ndash; Exposition Catalog AGPA 82)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022...It would be tedious to comment on the technical and iconographic characteristics of each work, so I will limit myself to pointing out the ones that to my judgment are the most interesting. Attention is powerfully drawn to the aggregate that Peru presents. They are all practitioners of a naturalist figuration, whether in a symbological vein (Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro), or conceptually related to critical realism (Cervantes, Pestana), or inscribed in artistic paraphrasing (Braun)...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFietta Jarque.\u003C/strong\u003E ( Daily \u0026ldquo;El Observador\u0026rdquo;. Lima, 08.18.83)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022...\u0027The Rejoindure\u0027 is a work that during the night of the inauguration attracted the attention of all in attendance. This painting by Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro is a demential exacerbation of detail; it is not possible to distinguish a single brush stroke in this faithful reproduction of a still life in the Dutch style. The composition, the quality of the light and the technique, without mentioning of course the theme, could situate it anywhere in Europe in the last three centuries...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDaily \u0026ldquo;La Rep\u0026uacute;blica\u0026rdquo;.\u003C/strong\u003E (Lima, 08.30.85)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;In spite of the youth Estremadoyro has participated in important events, in nationals as well internationals\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMiguel Cruchaga Bela\u0026uacute;nde.\u003C/strong\u003E (Letter to Mario Vargas Llosa. 06.25.85)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022... Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro is one of the most outstanding exponents of a new generation of figurative painters. His painting produces such an extreme sense of reality that it incites to perplexity. (...) From the first time that I was invited to visit his studio I was overwhelmed by the fount of passion that Estremadoyro is (...) swayed by that faith I have come and gone to his aerie...\u0022 \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELuis E. Lama\u003C/strong\u003E (\u0026ldquo;Caretas\u0026rdquo; magazine. Lima, 08.05.85)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022...Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro presents a singular proposition in the form of a painting with truly exceptional connotations... The exhibit entitled \u0027Don\u0027t Tell Anyone\u0027 is a show that must be seen...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMar\u0026iacute;a Elena Cornejo.\u003C/strong\u003E (\u0026ldquo;Caretas\u0026rdquo; magazine. Lima, 12.04.89)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro lives in a sort of Victorian castle located right in the heart of San Isidro (...)He views modern art from a distance, moreover, he is not interested in it. He believes profoundly in a realist \u0026aelig;sthetic and in the living presence of the painting (...) His pictorial production however is not prolific. Each painting takes him months of labor, research and reflection. He is an artist who plays with time, colors, shapes, and with the characters in order to discover in them new modes of perception and communication...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlonso Ruiz Rosas.\u003C/strong\u003E (Special for the Daily \u0026ldquo;El Comercio\u0026rdquo;. Paris, 10.23.97)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPARIS - \u0022The Peruvian painter Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro inaugurated in recent days an exhibition of painting that is in a class by itself (...) an imposing figurative canvas of 2 by 3 meters that strives to be an allegory of the crisis in modern art...\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillipe Dagen.\u003C/strong\u003E (Daily \u0026ldquo;Le Monde\u0026rdquo;. Paris, 01.03.97)\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026ldquo;Luis Jos\u0026eacute; Estremadoyro has lived several years in France. This Peruvian artist of extremely unusual paintings (...) has on display a remarkable work, only one, but it is out of the ordinary and fiercely up to date. Its name is \u0022The Eve\u0022 (La V\u0026iacute;spera), and it is nothing less than a depiction of our times, saturated with horrors, and of our memory, saturated with references. There is immense ambition: To restore the great classic peinture d\u0027histoire, and to delve deeply into the theme. To achieve this, Estremadoyro uses simultaneously the realistic pictorial style of effective illusionistic techniques, and pseudo-collages that let him insert fragments of illustrious works: Leonardo, Vermeer, Vel\u0026aacute;zquez. This is how the mental confusion is suggested, the spiritual disorder, and a sort of observant hallucination that captivates you. There are abundant symbols of suffering and oppression, as well as many allusions to contemporary history.\u0022\u003Cp\u003E","BiographicalImageUrl":"/Artist/262/2629/Images\\f4112346-067d-4e17-aa09-625ff9bb8271.jpg","StartYear":1955,"EndYear":null,"Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":true,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":16}