Más allá de la imagen

"Beyond the image. The technical studies in the Gil de Castro project" presents the first results of a long-term collaborative effort to study the work and life of Afro-Peruvian painter José Gil de Castro (b. Lima 1785-1841), the "Painter of Latin American Independence Movement". This edition comprises the results of extensive collective work carried out within the framework of the research project "José Gil de Castro. Cultura visual y representación del antiguo régimen a las repúblicas sudamericanas" (José Gil de Castro. Visual culture and representation, of the old regime to the South American republics) organized by MALI (Peru) with the collaboration of the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre el Patrimonio Cultural (IIPC), Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración (DIBAM) in Santiago de Chile, with support from the Getty Foundation. This important study is the most extensive series of technical analyses to have been undertaken for a single painter in Latin America and includes texts by Natalia Majluf, director of MALI and the coordinator of this collective project and from several interdisciplinary researchers, who combine the methods of the history of art with scientific and technical studies (stratigraphy, IR reflectography, x-rays, amongst other methods) to better understand the artistic personality of the "painter of the liberators". The participating researchers came from Peru, Argentina and Chile and were able to examine in great detail over 40 paintings by Gil Castro and do partial analysis of around 20 more works.