Herman Braun-VegaAuthor(s): Luis CamnitzerSource: Art Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4, Latin American Art (Winter, 1992), p. 7Published by: College Art AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/777271 .

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Herman Braun- Vega PERU

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Herman Braun-Vega, H6tel du Sud after Veldzquez, Manet, Ingres, and Matisse, 1985, triptych, acrylic and collage on canvas, 764 x 153Y2 inches. Collection of S. and T. Bocahut.

I placed the characters of Las Meninas on the outside panels, in direct contact with the mestizos, in order to remind us that the Spaniards participated in the mestizaje process from the

very beginning. The deformed Ingres-like nude in the left

panel serves to emphasize the French cultural presence in Peru from Independence until the eve of the Second World War. I have depicted her with Picassoesque deformations because French culture, though present in an elitist fashion, particularly in architecture, did not merge with popular Peruvian culture. In the central panel of the painting I placed the Infanta tending pigs-the same animals that the con-

queror Francisco Pizarro guarded during his childhood in

Spain-to remind us of the typical cultural level of the first colonizers. In the third panel Manet's characters-guests at the H6tel du Sud-represent non-Iberian Europe, which

always perceived in America a possibility for acquiring wealth, or for exotic tourism. The H6tel du Sud represents a

place of transit for our neighbors in the North.

HERMAN BRAUN-VEGA, who lives in Paris, has exhibited internationally. A retrospective of his work and a series of paintings titled Espafia/Amdrica were exhibited in Madrid in October 1992.

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