Alberto Casari
Bio
He studied literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú from 1973 to 1975 and painting at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1975 to 1977, Between 1978 and 1980, he travelled through South America and worked as a sailor on a cargo ship. In 1980 he moved to Paris and then to Florence, where he lived and worked from 1983 to 1996.
In 1994, while in Italy, he creates The PPPP Project (Productos Peruanos Para Pensar or Peruvian Productos To think), is the extensive performantic work of Alberto Casari and his alter ego partners Alfredo Covarrubias, Arturo Kobayashi and alias El Místico. PPPP is a company in which the artist depersonalizes to disappear as an individual creator, deciding on the anonymity of a logo. With heteronomy he questioned the obsession with the signature as a seal of the artist and the fetishism centered in the possession of the picture like the essential in the relation between man and art. Since then, Casari & PPPP produce art with different means, like the painting, in charge of Kobayashi and alias El Místico, and the visual poetry and the texts written by Covarrubias.
Statement
Parallelly, in 1998, he begins to experiment with the textile design and of carpets, developing this project along with famous andean weavers. Soon, this experience opens him new routes and in 2001, he founds in Lima PPPPdesign, a branch for design and production. In 2006, Alfredo Covarrubias publishes the book ‘Páginas sin frases ni palabras que digan una cosa’, (Edited by Centro Cultural de la Universidad de San Marcos, Lima). In 2007, peruvian fim maker Delia Ackerman makes the documentary video PPPP: Inner forces.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
