It is not the first time that the Proa Foundation reaffirms its commitment to the dissemination of the culture of the native peoples of the American continent. The extraordinary exhibits on the Olmec civilization, that of the Gulf of Mexico, the aborigines of the Gran Chaco, the Pampas and their textiles, the Mapuche silverware and the sacred paths of the native inhabitants of Argentina should be remembered.
“The Incas- Beyond an empire” It is an exhibition organized by the Lima Art Museum (MALI) and the Proa Foundation Curated by leading specialists: Cecilia Pardo, Ricardo Kusunoki and Julio Rucabado. A selection of 138 pieces from public and private collections in Peru is shown, which highlights one of the most fascinating civilizations of pre-Hispanic America, that is, four centuries of Andean culture.
In addition, allows you to explore the origins of the Tahuantinsuyo or Inca Empireits projection, the complexity of its sociopolitical organization through ceramic objects, textiles, carved figures belonging to religious offerings and rituals, quipus, a unique and highly precise accounting system composed of threads and knots with which what was recorded was recorded. It was important in economic matters for the Empire as well as narrative information and genealogy.
Contemporary technology also allows us to appeal to audiovisual resources that have explored the Inca presence in our territory.; For example, the archaeological sites in Pucará del Tilcara (Jujuy), La Paya and Llullaillaco (Salta), Aconquija and Shincal de Quimivil (Catamarca), which also place the arrival of the Incas between 1471 and 1497.
Room 1 is dedicated to the origins and formation of Tahuantinsuyomythical stories collected during the colonial period. In Room 2 you will find everything related to the organization and administration of the empirethe production of the land, identity through dress, rituals and offerings. In Tahuantinsuyo there were around 80 provinces with a population of 20,000 to 30,000 families that provided work as a form of tribute. Large public works were carried out, road construction, agricultural projects.
Room 3 is dedicated to landscape, architecture and vast territory whose constructions are simple, the elite buildings are recognizable by the use of polished stones. The visual language was inspired by geometry, especially the weaving of textiles. Several works belong to the Amano Museum, which dazzled us at the time due to the diversity and execution of such refined pieces, founded by a successful Japanese industrialist to protect them from theft and damage. pillage.
In Room 4 are exhibited works of the colonial period. Several reflect the violence carried out in the Andes by Francisco Pizarrowhich begins with the capture and execution of the Inca Atahualpa in 1532 and the name Tahuantinsuyo will be replaced by that of Peru, but one cannot judge the history of so many adventurers in search of silver, gold, quinine, coca, quinine, great riches, others also arrived who longed to know flora, fauna, geology , geography to make them known to the scientific world, as pointed out John Alden Masonlinguist and anthropologist (USA) author of “The ancient cultures of Peru” published in 1962.
According to the curators “The breaks and continuities raised in such a vast temporal journey invite us to rethink certain preconceptions about the origin, development and end of a phenomenon that refused to disappear from our memory and whose legacy survives to this day”.
In line with this concept, Adriana RosenbergDirector of Proa, points out “that modern art cannot be studied without dialoguing with the great influence that original cultures had on new aesthetic conceptions”.
(Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929. Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 p.m. Wednesday: free admission.)
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