Sergio Zevallos

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Sergio Zevallos (* 1962 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian visual artist. His work consists of drawings, collages, photographs, installations and performances.

Zevallos studied from 1980 to 1982 at the Escuela de Artes of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima. He was a co-founder of the Grupo Chaclacayo , which was active between 1982 and 1994 and was part of the artistic underground . Zevallos has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989 .

In 2013 and 2014 the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart showed it under the exhibition title Un cueropo ambulante / Ein Umwerschweifender Körper . In 2017 he was a participant in documenta 14 in the Neue Galerie and in 2018 was awarded the HAP Grieshaber Prize endowed with € 25,000 .

Publications, catalogs

  • Images of death. Peru or the end of the European dream. Grupo Chaclacayo. Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Alexander-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-923854-47-1 (pictures and texts for the traveling exhibition of the same title with works by Grupo Chaclacayo, Peru, involved: Helmut J. Psotta, Sergio Zevallos and Raúl Avellaneda).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miguel A. López: Queer Corpses: Grupo Chaclacayo and the Image of Death. In: e-flux # 44 April 2013. www.e-flux.com, accessed on April 16, 2018 (English).
  2. Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart: Sergio Zevallos. In: wkv-stuttgart.de. www.wkv-stuttgart.de, accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  3. Sergio Zevallos receives the HAP Grieshaber Prize from VG Bild-Kunst in 2018. In: kunstfonds.de. Art Fund Foundation, February 15, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2018 .