Materials for the sacred. Cultural and historical approaches to South American Colonial artistic productions.

GABRIELA SIRACUSANO

Nueva York

Otro; Conferencia magistral; 2011

Institute of Fine Arts-New York University

Is there a memory of the materials? If the evocative power of images understood as simulacra guides us to a wide but finite universe of mental images preserved in memory, could it be possible to trace those indelible marks of past ideas and feelings in the bowels of matter? The South American artistic production developed during the 16th and 17th centuries in the Viceroyalty of Peru shows itself as an interesting field for the study of these signs, as it combines the evidence of cultural practices related to the use of artistic materials and techniques with the goals of the evangelization process.