Pedro Caballero - Peru

BIOGRAPHY

Caballero was born in Cajabamba, Peru in 1954, studied at the School of fine Arts in Lima and often travels to Europe to pursue personal studies at Museums in Paris and Madrid. Caballero's work is rooted in pre-columbian-Iconographic. It is characterized by as unceasing struggle between Figurative and Abstract, together with the obsessive study of Pre-columbian textiles particularly those from the Paracas and Chancay culture.

Each of his compositions is framed within one or more rectangles using planes that overlap in messgaes about timelessness, history, and perceived reality. In his second step he addds symbolic elements like papers, pre-columbiam dolls, feathers, blankets, rope and other artifacts as personal symbolic elements bringing extremes together. In his words it is “my way of extending my culture”. His work is composed of vibrant earth colours with incredible attention to detail of the symbolic items in his works with Peruvian imagery imbedded in the works that with only close and repeated scrutiny comes to the attention of the observer.