The ceremony of restitution of documentary and numismatic assets belonging to the Cultural Heritage of that country. Historical documents include, among others, the book “The sun and the happy year of Peru” printed in 1735 whose complaint about its theft gave rise to case No. 1392/2021 of the Criminal and Economic Court No. 8.
In the raid carried out in 2022 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, a large number of books and documents belonging not only to Peru but also to Argentina and other countries were recovered. 3 colonial medals of oath of fidelity to the kings were also restored Charles IV and Ferdinand VII minted at the Lima mint. These goods were detected by Customs officers at the Ezeiza Airport and at the Fluvial Terminal, that is, in two customs controls.
The ambassador of Peru in Argentina, Alberto Chocano Burgahighlighted the high level of commitment that both countries maintain in the fight against this transnational crime and thanked the permanent collaboration and support of Argentine institutions.
The protection, restitution and repatriation of Peru’s cultural heritage constitutes a State policy and one of the important guidelines of Peruvian foreign policy.
Rember Yahuarcani
Also with the assistance of the ambassador of Peru, the exhibition of Rember YahuarcaniPeruvian visual artist of Uitoto and Cocaine origin, who represented his country alongside his father, also a prominent painter, at the 2024 Venice Biennale entitled “Foreigners everywhere”under the curatorship of Adriano Pedrosa. He is also a journalist, cultural producer and manager in the music industry.
Born in Pevas in 1986, Yahuarcani is an activist for rights and respect for indigenous cosmologies and knowledge; His work recovers and deals with the myths and memories of White Heron Clanone of the last families of the Uitoto indigenous nation in the Peruvian Amazon.
Fables, myths, traditions were transmitted to him by his grandmother Martha Lopez Pinedomatriarch of the Aymenú, as well as the terrible crimes and abuses committed against her people for the extraction of rubber. Hence, the artist maintains that “transmitting, listening to and disseminating indigenous cultures is key to preventing them from being erased.”
His work is a kind of daydream that encodes ancient messages, a vision through nature and the world that surrounds us, he noted during his speech at the pre-inauguration for the press and special guests.
This artist, whose beautiful work excites, belongs to the deep Amazon, also pointed out that he rejects the category of indigenous art that seems to have recently been discovered since academics, researchers and scientists have appropriated his voice, which is why he rejects the category of indigenous art. for him “art is art” and seeks, with its work, both respect and to regain dignity.
Refined lines, landscapes and characters, forests where everything is: medicine, food, colors that he captures with great wisdom, Rember feels that each stroke of what he paints is a vindication of his own, it can be dreamlike for some and as he points out Sandra Juarezcurator of the exhibition, “dreams are a central part of active life, they are considered a bridge between wakefulness and the spiritual, when dreaming you access ancestral wisdom and mythical creation.”
“Every indigenous artist has to be a political actor”since the artist lights the way to defend the threatened natural and social ecosystem.
(Marco Museum, Av. Almirante Brown 1031. “JUMA. Preserve memory. Imagine the future”, title of the exhibition, can be visited until March 2025).
Source: Ambito
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