Yerko Zlatar
Bio
Yerko Zlatar (Peru, 1977) lives and works in Lima. He is the director of Puna, a studio dedicated to the design and research of ancient peruvian weaving techniques. He has a masters degree in Fine Arts from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London (2002) in addition to having studied Art Direction and Production Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (2002), Fine Arts at Corriente Alterna, Lima (2001) and in Formulas and Processes of Photography at Centro de la Imagen, Lima (1999).In the year 2000 he won the first Phlilips Award for Young Talents, and presented his works at the Memorial Da America Latina museum in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 2003 he was part of the group of founding artists of Cretasico, one of the pioneering programs in the promotion and investigation of experimental music in Peru. Throughout his career he has participated in collective exhibitions in London, Paris, Nice and Lima.
Statement
Yerko Zlatar works with geometries, primary archetypes and synthesis of architectural figures. His works are made of appropriations and deconstructions of found elements, sacred patterns, ancient architectures, and designs taken from different cultural sources and timelines. He seeks to propose a narrative journey in which intuition, repetition and randomness play a very important role in his creativo process.
