Andrea Velasco Astete
Andrea is a Peruvian artist who has lived in different cultures throughout her life, which clearly influence her work. In her art, she expresses her deepest experiences, emotions, and thoughts. She uses painting as a tool to explore and discover the world. She is inspired by neo-expressionism, abstract art, and urban art. Through her paintings, she creates landscapes where the viewer can get lost in the details, discovering something new each time. She is an emerging artist, but despite her short career, she has exhibited at the main fair in Peru and participated in Art Basel Miami
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Quince Días
Fifteen Days is an exhibition born from the reconstruction of family memory. Based on a photograph of Andrea Velasco-Astete's grandfather during a failed expedition in the Peruvian Amazon, the artist constructs a visual narrative where history and imagination intertwine. The series presents the Amazon as an ambivalent territory, beautiful and threatening, and places the viewer in a first-person experience where the real and the dreamlike merge. Combining figuration and abstraction, the works reflect on human fragility, resilience, and the deep relationship between humans and nature.
Eslabones de Amuletos
Chains of Amulets is an exhibition born from Andrea Velasco-Astete's return to Peru after more than a decade abroad, activating an artistic investigation into identity, memory, and personal cultural imagery. This process of reconnection is articulated as a dialogue between Peruvian and Asian culture, addressing their symbolic, spiritual, and superstitious convergences. The exhibition brings together a visual universe loaded with references to Peruvian folklore, Asian iconography, manga, comics, and ancestral traditions. Skulls, protective figures, amulets, and symbols of good fortune appear resignified within its own pictorial language, where neo-expressionism is transformed into a personal syntax based on gesture, illustration, and the accumulation of signs. Each work functions as a link in a chain of meanings, a visual amulet that condenses stories, beliefs, and emotions.
Residencia Rancho Rata
The series is developed within the framework of the Rancho Rata artistic residency, in Villanueva del Rosario (Málaga), a rural environment that fosters dialogue between contemporary creation, territory, and community. Like other models of cultural decentralization, the residency proposes shifting artistic practice outside the urban context, generating new relationships between language, place, and experience. The works combine personal iconographies with references to the contemporary urban landscape, incorporating elements of graffiti, gestural repetition, and symbolic writing. These languages, recontextualized in the rural environment, create a tension between the organic and the urban, the ancestral and the immediate. The series is articulated as a tapestry of myths, tales, and open narratives, where animals acquire a central role as expressive and emotional figures.
A Study of Tigers
A Study of Tigers is a series of nine paintings focused on the expressive faces of tigers, inspired by traditional Korean iconography, where these animals are depicted with exaggerated, humorous, or ambiguous gestures. The series explores the symbolic richness of the tiger within this cultural imaginary, moving away from a solely fierce or majestic view to incorporate dimensions of vulnerability, irony, and humor. Through repetition and variation, each work presents a distinct approach in style, expression, and pictorial treatment, forming a visual study of the same symbol in constant transformation. The series combines a neo-expressionist approach with illustrative elements, prioritizing gesture, immediacy, and emotional intensity as the core of the collection.
