In the last five years, my work, it has been published in different editions of art in Peru and Latin America.

PERU 10,000 YEARS OF PAINTING
Author: Marisa Mújica.
Edited by University of Porres's St Martin, 2006.
THE ROPE OF THE DEAD MEN stranger of the ayahuasca knows.
Author: Christián Bendayan.
Edited by Museum of Art of the Cultural Center San Marcos, 2006
"LATIN-AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ART"
Authors: Maria Elena Troncoso / Ricardo Lescano.
Edited by ATCultura. Buenos Aires Argentina, 2005.
"THE II BIENNIAL NATIONAL OF ART OF LIMA"
Published by Municipality of Lima and CIA. Bellsouth, 2001
History
of a god fish who spitted out color
Upon returning home from Rafo Diaz' paintings:
I am late my love and see you stirring an old cup of
cold consommé with a spoon in your hand.
I am late, my love, the night fell on me at an instant.
I am unraveled and sprinkled in colors.
I was only going to look at the paintings and capture
them in my memory and it turns out that they wrapped
me up, revolved me around and made me go through two
nights.
The first night was the night of old times that have
not gone by.
They raffled up my clothing and left me skin and blood
in the middle of the jungle. They dressed me again with
smoke and colors and forced me into the initial rites
of the Amazon Indians, of the rivers, and of the hill
incas. And, we danced together until a dizziness of
colors made me fall onto the floor, colors of the grass,
of the pisco, of the brown skin. It was odd…,
night was still dark but one could see it all and …
it was not the light shining down but the color…
a god fish came out into the surface and spitted color
here and there just for our eyes.
I swear to you, my love, I had never seen the pulsing
color of the night the way I do now.
The second night was the night of bars and boweries
of the cities of run-aways and escapees… and it
was blue but not like any blue, it was another blue.
I got soaked of color from cheap alcohol and a party
woman came to kiss me and caught me by surprise. Then,
she sat on my thighs. I saw myself huge, fat, idol of
all excess and our flesh touched, all the way down to
despair and even then, color was not going away but
it was magnetizing the ways, the wood where the glasses
hit. Night remained dark, my love, I swear to you but
you could see everything.
The god fish continued swimming in his colorful fish
bowl. He told us that color, like music, has a rhythm
and that the best of his rhythm and harmony is yet to
be discovered. And he told us that color teaches the
soul about everything that lives under the moon. A god
fish told me.
I am late, my love, don't look at me like that, I bring
color wounds on my body. I come from two nights where
you could not go out without being sprinkled by the
god fish. I am cold and naked, hug me, look at me, heal
me, wet your lips in my sores, my love, that I am late
and wounded with the color of live flesh.
Francisco Javier SANCHO MÁS
Writer, Spanish, Filologist and Literature/Art Investigator
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“COSMIC SNAKE” (April 2010)
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Individual Exhibits in the main room of the
Cultural Center of the Instituto Camoes.
Maputo – Mozambique
"The Ritual and the Mundane"
(October 2003) |more
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Individual Exhibits in the main room of the Latin American
Art Museum; official event of the Month of Hispanic Culture
on Eighth Street, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
"Soul, Heart and Life" (February
2003) |more information|
Individual Exhibit at the Genesis Arte Gallery in Managua,
Nicaragua.
"Visions" (August 2000) |more
information|
Individual Exhibit at the Art School Gallery, Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Lima, Peru.
"Of Love... Its Demons..."
(December 1998) |more
information|
Individual Exhibit at the French Alliance Room
Iquitos, Peru
"Conscience of Pain" (November
1997) |more information|
Individual Exhibit at the Banco Continental Art Gallery
Iquitos, Peru |