- INSTITUTO CAMÕES - Jorge Valdivia Carrasco´s Painting Exhibition - Avª da Liberdade 270

The Embassy of Peru in Portugal and the Instituto Camões organize a Jorge Valdivia Carrasco`s Painting Exhibithion that starts on 16 de November 2012 at 18h30.
Avenida da Liberdade, 270 Lisboa
Tel: (+351) 213109100 www.instituto-camoes.pt

Open to the public until 14/12/2012, every working days from 10h30 / 12h30 and from 14h30 / 17h30.

Jorge Valdivia was born in Ayacucho, Peru, and has been living in Germany for over three decades. Since a very young age he became interested in painting, and has always dedicated himself professionally to this activity. He evolved as artist in a permanente searching for his own expression, and reached a quality level which allowed him to enter the UNESCO International Association of Plastic Arts, located in Paris.

The Iberoamericano Pablo Neruda` s Poetry Winner, in 2006, Carlos Germán Belli dedicated a poem to Jorge Valdivia, published in the art magazine “Sibila 26” in January of 2008, which ends in this manner: “…De quien tiene delante un cuadro tuyo / Donde renace un clássico / Y el contemplador boquiaberto tórnase / En alguien que descubre al fin el arte.”

Carlos Germán Belli also stated… “Admiring Jorge Valdivia´s paintings implies a double action, such as contemplating the art of an ancient master and the art of a modern master: each one of his works is the representation of a canvas from the first, thanks to the keen brush of the second. However, this double knowledge converges into one thing only, the aesthetic thrill of the contemplator, as his retina is able to combine the alluring chromatics, the careful conception of the images – of others and his own – and the infinite amazement of it all. I believe that the admiration Jorge Valdivia professes for his renaissance masters is imposed on us by him, despite the fact that we can equally appreciate, with the same thrill, his own unique art. Amazement, by the gift of faithfully reproducing portrait models, and the boldness with which he oversteps them with the flame of his fantasy, and even by the way he surprises, showing us that styles from a distant past can constitute a starting point for another art, born thanks to the a painter so exquisite and imaginative, that few like him exist today."