Sculture
Biografia
Born in Lima, Peru, 1966
E-mail: mail@cesarcornejo.com
Education:
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
2003 Ph.D. in Fine Arts
2000 M.A. in Fine Arts
1996 - 98 Research student
Ricardo Palma University, Lima
1993 Professional License in Architecture
1989 B.A. in Architecture
1992-1995 Lecturer in Sculpture
1990-1991 Teaching Assistant in Sculpture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Enter the Labyrinth, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
2002 Monuments and Amulets, Gallery Gyokuei, Tokyo
1999 Something in the Air, Gallery Koubo Chika, Tokyo
1999 400m2 of Sculpture, Galleria Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan
1993 Habitaciones, Peruvian North American Institute Gallery of Art, Lima, Peru
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Gyokuei Gallery, Tokyo
2002 Vermont Studio Center, USA.
2001 Sculpture Biennale Rincon de Ademuz, Spain.
2000 Asahi art exhibition, Tokyo
2000 Yong Du International Environment Art Festival, Pusan Korea
2000 Mukojima Net, Tokyo
2000 Modern Clay Works Japan and America, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo
2000 Graduated Works of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
2000 Tatsumi Orimoto Tatami Exhibition, Kawasaki
1999 Third International Clay Works Symposium Exhibition Toki, Japan
1999 Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo
1998 Sosakuten , Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Toride, Japan
1998 Selected Works in Photography, Daily Yomiuri Newspaper, Tokyo
1995 National Museum of Peru, Lima
1994 Italian Embassy, National School of Arts, Internal Affairs Ministry, Sculpture Exhibition, Lima Peru
1994 Ceramics in Architecture, World Ceramics Congress, Poster Presentation, Florence Italy
1993 MOA 7th Anniversary Ceramics Exhibition, Lima
1993 Cactus and Succulents in Art, Peruvian North American Cultural . . Institute Gallery of Art, Lima, Peru
1993 55 years of Fine Arts at the ICPNA, Peruvian North American Cultural . Institute Gallery of Art, Lima Peru
1991 A Dream, Peruvian Japanese Cultural Institute Gallery of Art, Lima Peru
1991 Carlos Galarza, Homage to the Master, Peruvian North American Cultural . Institute Art Gallery, Lima Peru
1990 Contemporary Art 1920-1990, National Museum of Peru, Lima
Awards and Fellowships
2003 Toride City Public Sculpture Prize, Japan.
2003 Selected for the Second Sculpture Biennale Rincon de Ademuz, Spain.
2002 Vermont Studio Center Full Scholarship, awarded by Gould Foundation, USA.
2001 Asahi Art Foundation, Foreign Art Students Prize, Japan.
2001 Selected for International Symposium, Ceramics in Architecture, "Habitar 2001", Portugal
2001 Selected for, First Sculpture Biennale Rincon de Ademuz, Spain.
2000 Tokyo National University Museum of Art, "Kayage" Sculpture Prize
1996-2003 Jde CJapanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Scholarship
Selected Collections
Tokyo National University Fine Arts Museum, Permanent Collection
Toride City Government, Japan
Montemor o Novo City Government, Portugal
Toki City Government, Permanent Collection
Ricardo Palma University, Permanent Collection, Lima
North American Peruvian Cultural Institute, Permanent Collection
Various private collectors
Publications and reviews
Mar 2003 El Comercio, Lima
Dec 2000 J Channel, Japan different views, interview by Dora Tauzin
Oct 2000 TBS TV Channel, Neighborly program interview, Tokyo
Jul 2000 Spirits from East, Newspaper El Comercio, Lima
May 2000 Mado Art Magazine, Tokyo
Mar 2000 Clay Dreams, Sculptures by Cesar Cornejo, El Comercio, Lima
Jan 2000 Asia in Spanish, Internet Magazine
Nov 1999 Something in the Air, International Press, Tokyo
Aug 1999 Nikkei Press, Lima
Dec 1993 Ceramics Exhibitions years review, El Comercio, Lima
Aug 1993 Habitaciones, Newspaper El Comercio, Lima
Other Activities
Assistant for UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of Humanity (Peru National Entry), Member of team for Seville Expo 92 Peruvian Pavilion Project, Coordinator of the Lima`s Historic District Rullings, First Edition, Collaborate with Peruvian sculptor Victor Delfin in scuplture - architecture projects in different cities of Peru. Kodak Professional Photography Course, Lima.
Critica
Interview by Patricia Castro Obando, March 2000
- Ceramics are well appreciated in Japan. Would you establish any comparison with the ceramics made by the antique peruvians?
My parents house in Lima is 50 metres near by a huaca (raw clay bricks "adobe" built religious, mountain like, prehispanic construction) The daily life by that adobe mountain like prehispanic construction) The daily life by that adobe mountain, I would say was my first contact with clay. Also it is one of the elements that most perceptually marked me, not only by its shape, but by the magic mantle with which it covered all its neighborhood. In Toki, city of the Symposium, I found in each inhabitant a living part of a millenary ceramics tradition, the natural way in which they spoke about it, the enthusiasm that provoked them to see how three foreigners worked (play) with it, was and experience itself. Somehow everyone had something to do with ceramics, I felt during one month that not only my life but everyone`s was ceramics. Maybe this experience only compares to the one of living in a city built of clay, or by the side of a huaca. In Japan it is possible to feel the same as being in the prehispanic Peru.
- I understand that besides being a ceramist you are a sculptor. Could you please talk a bit more about the characteristics of your work as sculptor and ceramist?
I am a sculptor, architect, and ceramist, and even as the three majors complement each other, they also deny one another. Therefore it is maybe more suitable to say that in the three cases, my work originates from denying the denial. With the sculpture somehow I deny the architecture, but from this denial as it nourishes from a different vision of itself, the same happens in the opposite direction. The ceramics, because of its methods, completely fits to this purpose the conception of the internal and external space, the analogy between the plates of a ceramics piece and the walls of a building works perfectly. Also in this symposium I practiced an intersection of the three "building" a piece with bricks of raw clay, which after I sculped it giving it shape, the title of this work is "The Next Age", and represents a futuristic vision of man through architecture.
- The works which you present in this group show have a particular name, How would you define them?
During the symposium I made 7 sculptures, one of them of 1.50mts tall (the maximum size of the kiln) and 6 smaller. Because of reasons of space and transportation in the show which opens on the thirteen in the Gallery Seiho of Tokyo, only two will be shown "Internal Architecture" and "Time", the former is of organic lines and incorporates light as an element of the composition, the last one, made of bricks of raw clay and afterwards burned, develops the subject of the fragility of mass exposed to the destructive effect of time (this work will never be finished), both are of architectural expression.
