César Moro

César Moro (aka Alfredo Quispez Asin ; born August 19, 1903 in Lima ; † January 10, 1956 ibid) was a Peruvian surrealist painter and poet.

Moro trained himself as a painter and signed his first painting in 1921 with "César Moro" based on a fictional character by Ramón Gómez de la Serna . In 1925 he went to Paris, where he met the group of surrealists around André Breton . He began ballet training and worked as a painter and poet. His first painting exhibitions took place in 1926 and 1927. From 1928 until his return to Lima, he wrote mainly poems in French and published the volume of poems Ces poèmes .

With Emilio Adolfo Westphalen , Moro organized the first Surrealism exhibition in Latin America at the Academia Alcedo in Lima in 1935 . a. Jaime Dvor , Waldo Parraguez , Gabriela Rivadeneira , Carlos Sotomayor and Maria Valencia participated.

In 1938 he left Peru for political reasons and went to Mexico, where he worked with Xavier Villaurrutia on the magazine El hijo prodigo . In 1940 he organized with Wolfgang Paalen and André Breton the Fourth International Surrealism Exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicano with works a. a. by Pablo Picasso , Agustín Lazo Adalid and Salvador Dalí . In 1948 he returned to Lima, where he lived in seclusion until his death. His estate was looked after by his friend, the French poet André Coyné .

Works

Obra poética completa ; edición crítica, André Coyné, Daniel Lefort, Julio Ortega (eds.), Poitiers: CRLA-Archivos, 2015, ISBN 978-291-005-048-1
Amour à mort et autres poèmes, Choix et prés. par André Coyné, Paris: Ed. La Difference, 1990, 2-7291-0510-7

literature

Gaëlle Hourdin: L'étincelle et la plume: une poétique de l'entre-deux dans l'œuvre de César Moro , Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, [2016], ISBN 978-2-8107-0461-3

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personal data
SURNAME	Moro, César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Quispez Asin, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Peruvian poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lima
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1956
Place of death	Lima