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July, 2008 >>Celph Exploited Art is now under peru143.com<< Welcome home art enthusiasts! At the beginning of the summer i helped out at the Fringe Festival like I do every year and made them a banner for the main stage <you can see images here> and right after that you can see photos from the Ottawa's HOP Jam 2008 So, I was surfing the net the other night, and I find out my name's on a flyer for a show in Barcelona, it seems a couple of my paintings are up so check it out if youre in the hood..
Most recently I was interviewed with my crew for Blana Magazine in Bucharest(big up!) They made a 9 page spread on the Wastoids! <check it out here if youre not in Romania> Not to put Bucharest down or anything but the Senior Times in NDG also gave me a page article <view here> On August 6th, I will be starting a big mural for the city of Montreal - so expect another update about it or check out my flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/peru143/ Ill be adding several new sketches next as well so dont be a stranger.. : |
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Previous Updates: Austin, TX show (NEW) Tremblant show (NEW) Cultural Shifts - profile Press - new section International Fringe Festival 2007 LaParia profile - exhibit photos Indyish profile |
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
Who’s Peru ? And why should you care?
Peru ’s a talented cat. Combining a fun conscious style and his developed illustrative education, Peru Dyer is an artist to be reckoned with. Taking his moniker from the mean streets he grew up on, this guy is major tour de force. His art evokes the frenzied emotion of youth with a grown up sensibility of a man who cares for the very state of our environment. He wants his art to make you live and breathe the way a child does. He wants you to feel young again and check your responsibilities at the door.
“We take our imagination for granted,” he says. “As an artist I feel I have a mission to educate and inspire.” Peru has recently returned from exhibiting his works throughout Europe from Vienna to Barcelona , and plans to continue on his mission of collective upliftment .
The concept behind 143 came about while growing up in the same house in Lima, Peru. My parents didn't want to go to the municipality and buy a registered number for the house just recently built, so my mother used to write a guess of what it would be (corresponding to the surrounding houses). She would write it in chalk and crayola, but the weather would often fade it, and we'd have to re-write it every so often.
:Celph Exploited Art came to be when I was living in Ottawa, under the tyranic dictatorship of my kind parents. It is not just an inside joke, nor a clever twist on self employment; it is more than a statement of under appreciation and exploitation of talent & culture across the world, to richen up those greedy pirates(run-on sentence); it is about expressing the lack of purity in a 2 dollar bottle of water. I believe in doing things for yourself, for the benefit of others.
