Non-simultaneities of Modernism
Studio Photographs by Baldomero Alejos, Ayacucho, Peru (1902-1976)
Museen Dahlem: Kunst und Kulturen der Welt
organised by: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Baldomero Alejos: Frau aus Ayacucho mit Kind
1940 © Archivo Baldomero Alejos (Ayacucho, Peru)
Baldomero Alejos was born in a very poor area of Peru in the administrative district of Huancavelica. By devious ways he came to Lima, where he learned how to take pictures, after which he opened his own studio in Ayacucho. Alejos' remarkably long period of creativity as a studio photographer, extending from 1924 to 1976, covers a time of drastic social and political change, illustrating the 'non-simultaneities of modernism' as they appeared in a town in the Andes. The main focus of Alejos' interest is on the question how the inhabitants of Ayacuchos made these global influences their own, and in what ways they expressed their political aims and their ideas of progressive economic development. A selection of 100 photographs from the Alejos Archive, established in the year 2000, supplemented by the collections of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen [Museum of European Cultures] and the Ethnologisches Museum [Ethnological Museum], is now being shown in Berlin for the first time. The exhibition is sponsored by the Verein der Freunde des Ethnologischen Museums [Friends of the Ethnological Museum], theVerein der Freunde des Museums Europäischer Kulturen [Friends of the Museum of European Cultures] and the Embassy of the Peruvian Republic in Berlin.
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Artist(s)
Baldomero Alejos
Curator(s)
Manuela Fischer, Karoline Noack, Irene Ziehe
Duration of the exhibition
5.11.2008 - 11.01.2009
Vernissage
4.11.2008, 18 h
Opening times
Di-Fr 10-18 h, Sa-So 11-18 h
Location
Museen Dahlem: Kunst und Kulturen der Welt
Arnimallee 25
14195 Berlin
T 0049 30 8301275
Public transport connections
U3 Dahlem-Dorf;
Bus X83, X11
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