Three times

In 1952 the Peruvian painter Benjamín Moncloa travelled to Paris and joined the Jean Dewasne atelier, an experience that converted him into one of the pioneers of abstract art in Peru. Dewasne’s teachings also influenced him in his early exploration of geometric abstraction. The artist returned to his country in 1957, and one year later he organized, together with Eduardo Moll, the first collective exhibition of this tendency in Peru: The I Salon of Abstract Art. However, from 1965 onwards Moncloa became interested in figuration and he left for New York, where he met Marcel Duchamp and where he developed an interest in erotic art. In a playful mood, this work picks up the legacy of the different stages that have characterized his work. Thus, the painter counterposes the realist effect of a flayed animal to the rigor of his former abstract compositions. (RK)