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L’ ARTISTE PERUVIENNE SILVANA PESTANA PRÉSENTE ‘A PSYCHEDELIC VOYAGER OF INO MOXO’ À PARIS INTERNATIONALE - © An Appetite For Destruction, 2021  
Digital collage, Paris Internationale
Ginsberg

Ginsberg is a contemporary art gallery, based in Lima, Peru. The gallery, founded in 2016 by Claudia Pareja, opened its doors with the mission of exhibiting contemporary artists in a context of critical dialogue and intellectual rigor. Our program has been designed around the premises of conceptualism, research and innovation, with a special interest in preserving and understanding regional differences. Inspired by art’s capacity of building bridges and shortening frontiers, Ginsberg aspires to be a platform where emerging and well-established artists can continue to create freely, broadening discourses and presenting innovative ideas.

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THE PERUVIAN ARTIST SILVANA PESTANA PRESENTS
“A PSYCHEDELIC VOYAGER OF INO MOXO” IN PARIS INTERNATIONAL

GINSBERG GALERÍA
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Av. Santa Cruz #1068 Miraflores
www.ginsberggaleria.com

Silvana Pestana takes the magic infused, ayahuasca travels of Ino Moxo, Cesar Calvo’s mythical witch doctor from the Amazon as a starting point for a project that explores humanity’s voracity for the Amazon, not as a place to knowledge and wonder, but as aresource area. Since colonial times, when explorers turned rubber barons enslaved native communities, to contemporary times when local crime lords from the mining and drug trade do pretty much the same, the rainforest has hidden beneath heavily canopied trees, intense scenes of violence. Pestana uses the idea of traveling, and particular of exploration to question the intense greed the Amazon and its natural gifts engender, much in the same way as the Ino Moxo welcomes knowledge of himself and his most basic instincts, the artist reflects on human voracity for wealth.

Juxtaposing the drug hazed trips of the witch doctor himself, with archive images of flights undertaken by the Peruvian Air Force in search of illegal mining and coca plantations, she confronts the viewer with a darker, dangerous self-image.

Silvana Pestana prend les voyages magiques et ayahuasca d’Ino Moxo, le sorcier mythique de Cesar Calvo en Amazonie comme point de départ d’un projet qui explore la voracité de l’humanité pour l’Amazonie, non pas comme un lieu de connaissance et d’émerveillement, mais comme une zone de ressources . Depuis l’époque coloniale, lorsque les explorateurs ont transformé les barons du caoutchouc en esclavage des communautés indigènes, jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine où les seigneurs du crime locaux du commerce des mines et de la drogue font à peu près la même chose, la forêt tropicale s’est cachée sous des arbres fortement couverts, des scènes de violence intenses. Pestana utilise l’idée de voyage, et en particulier d’exploration pour interroger l’intense cupidité qu’engendrent l’Amazonie et ses dons naturels, de la même manière que l’Ino Moxo accueille la connaissance de lui-même et de ses instincts les plus élémentaires, l’artiste réfléchit sur la voracité humaine pour richesse.

En juxtaposant les voyages drogués du sorcier lui-même avec des images d’archives de vols entrepris par l’armée de l’air péruvienne à la recherche d’exploitations minières illégales et de plantations de coca, elle confronte le spectateur à une image de soi plus sombre et dangereuse.

Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone I - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone I, 2021

1 Bronze leaf, 3 marble dust

Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone II - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone II, 2021

3 Bronze leaf, 1 marble dust

Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone - © Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone, 2021

Bronze leaf

Oro Negro II - © Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Oro Negro II, 2015

Digital photograph on cotton paper

Oro Negro I - © Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Oro Negro I, 2021

Digital photograph on cotton paper

Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone - © Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Seeds Of Gold, Turn Fertile Land to Stone, 2021

Bronze, bronze and silver leaf, bronze and copper leaf

Gold Flows Down The River Marañon - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Gold Flows Down The River Marañon, 2021

Mix media on linen

I See Darkness Overtake Me - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
I See Darkness Overtake Me, 2021

Acrylic on linen

A Psychedelic flight on wings of steel - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
A Psychedelic flight on wings of steel, 2021

Digital collage
Inject print and carbon pencil on Hahnemüle Matte Fine Art texture paper William Turner.

Digital collage: Inject print, Hahnemüle Matte Fine Art texture paper William Turner. 24 pieces. 40 x 40 cm e/a - © Ginsberg Galeria, Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
An Appetite For Destruction, 2021

Digital collage
Inject print, Hahnemüle Matte Fine Art texture paper William Turner.

Gold fever - © Paris Internationale
Silvana Pestana
Gold fever, 2021

Mix media on linen

«Silvana Pestana research tends towards the notion of the other side of things, the backstage, the invisible beyond the visible, which resonates with real-world allusions. Through this variation of shapes, the troubling and organic piecess by Silvana Pestana for to create an acid atmosphere. They investigate the interstices between the seen objects, that tell more than the simple visible. Pestana’s work deals globally with the memory of the underground of remaining abused and oppressed and especially the young people forced to work illegally and women who are constrained to prostitution, a known significant but invisible traffic that remains an omerta and in the shadows. These works (…) are taking us to the underworld of our civilization with all its contradictions. What is going on in this proposal shows how art has the capacity to raise awareness and change this current state of things. Like a journey in the changing and underlying world and references, The Underworld tells the original story behind the official story.»

Excerpt from a text by Jérôme Sans

Ginsberg - © Paris Internationale

SILVANA PESTANA
Lima, Peru. 1967
Lives and works in Lima, Peru.

Pestana’s research centralizes around humans who live in deprived areas. Her objective is to highlight the devastating environments in which people suffer due to the vulnerability of both state and social passivity. She relies on the worldview and mythology engrained in each community who share their unique story, and inturn helps emphasise human wealth above material. For Pestana, the greatest irony of globalization is perhaps the fact that it has served to increase the gaps that separate us. Her projects seek to create empathy by highlighting ideas that are universal: the fragility of love, love of our loved ones, suffering in the face of loss and the desire of a better life.

EDUCATION
1993 Studies in RISD. Rhode Island, USA.
1988 Studies in Parsons, New York, USA.
1987 Graphic Design, Toulouse Lautrec. Lima, Peru

SHOWS
2019 Mother of GO(L)D, curated by Gustavo Buntinx. Ginsberg Galeria
First place of the prize National Museum of Women in the Arts Peruvian Chapter “Premio Kuna Women 2019”, Madrid, Spain.
Weavers of the Clouds, London Museum of Fashion and Textile. London, UK.
2018 Underworld, curated by Jerome Sans, Ginsberg Galería, Lima, PE.
2017 Solo show ICPNA, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima, PE.
Laguna Art Prize, Arsenale. Venezia, Italy.
Bipersonal con Pancho Casas “La Yegua del Apocalipsis”, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Colectiva “Amazonistas: reflexiones sobre el arte amazónico contemporáneo en el Perú”, Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Paris, France
Bienal Tridimensional International de Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016 Guardians of their Art: The Contemporary Peruvian Amazon, WJB Gallery.
Florida State University, Florida, USA.
Solo show “Restos de lo sagrado”, Ginsberg Galeria, Lima, Peru.
“Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Art Exhibition”, China Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China.
“Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Art Exhibition”, China Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China.
“Post/fasio: melancolías de la violencia”, curaduría Gustavo Buntinx, LUM, Museo Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Perú. “Ayacucho Contemporáneo”, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, Lima, Peru
“Amazonismos”, Casa Montilla, La Habana, Cuba.
“Nuevas adquisiciones”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
“Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Millennium Monument World Art Museum de Beijing, China.
“La tierra donde Dios no culminó su creación”, Pata Gallery, Shanghai, China. Sumas II
Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2015 Solo Show “Oro Negro” curaduría Gustavo Buntinx, Galería González y González, Lima, Peru
2014. C21 MUSEUM “Seeing Now: Highlights from the Collection”, Lousville, Kentucky, USA.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Anibal Jozami – Private Collection. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ezequiel Eskenazi – Private Collection. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Miguel Larreta – Private Collection. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sonia Falcone – Private Collection. Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Colección Pedro Montes - Santiago de Chile, Chile
Colección Patricia Ready – Santiago de Chile, Chile
Eduardo Hochschild – Private Collection. Lima, Perú.
Alberto Rebaza – Private Collection. Lima, Perú.
Armando Andrade – Private Collection. Lima, Perú.
Colección de Jackie Hoffman y Pedro Brescia –. Lima, Perú
Museo de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú
C21 Art Museum. Kentucky, United States of America.
Pinacoteca Nacional de Sao Paulo, Brasil.

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