Reynaldo Luza
Bio
Reynaldo Luza (Peru, 1893-1978). Multifaceted artist and unavoidable representative of the Peruvian modernity. He studies architecture in Belgium, and back in Lima he joins the Colónida group. In 1918 he traveled to New York, where he worked as an illustrator for Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. In 1921 he is dispatched by Harper's Bazaar to Paris. He works there for sixteen years, and is linked with iconic characters from the world of art and fashion. In 1937 he is in charge of the Peruvian Pavilion in the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology in Paris. He is later awarded the Peruvian Order of the Sun with the rank of Knight. He dies in Lima at the age of 84. His talent is recognized worldwide and continues to be disseminated today through publications and exhibitions of his life and work.
Statement
Versatile and modern, and influenced by the pictorial tendencies he had experienced in Europe, Reynaldo Luza works within the limits of abstraction, taking the image of the landscape towards an emotional state. He is well known as an illustrator and painter, but he also worked extensibly with photography. The newly recovery and investigation of his extensive archive allows new dialogues that contributes to a deeper knowledge of his life and work, as well as proposing a counterpoint between his historical value and contemporary visuality.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
