Exhibition
Peru : Kingdoms of the Sun and
Moon: Identities and Conquest in the Early, Colonial and
Modern Periods
From February 2 to June 16, 2013
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada |
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From February 2 to June 16, 2013, the Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts (MMFA) will present for the first time the exhibition
Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and Moon: Identities and Conquest
in the Early, Colonial and Modern Periods. Conceptualized,
organized, produced and toured by the MMFA, this exhibition
will display an extensive collection of pre-Columbian treasures
and masterpieces from the colonial era to Indigenism, including
over 100 pieces that have never before been seen outside
of Peru. With more than 350 works of art (paintings, sculptures,
gold and silver ornaments, pottery, photograph, works on
paper, textiles and videos) from almost fifty public and
private collections, most of them from Peru but also from
Canada, United States, France and Germany, this exhibition
covers 3,000 years of history, including archaeological
discoveries in recent
decades. “In conceiving this exhibition on the question
of identity in Latin America following our exhibition Cuba!
Art and History from 1868 to today presented in 2008, I
was fascinated to discover the extent to which archaeology
has revealed this birthplace of civilization – one
of six such in the world – only recently in the course
of the 20th century” explains Nathalie Bondil, Director
and Chief Curator of the MMFA.
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