EXHIBITION 2023: Toritos de Pucará – Ceramic Bull Votives of the Peruvian Andes
This is a Past Event.
Date:
Thu 13 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Fri 14 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sat 15 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sun 16 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Mon 17 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Tue 18 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Wed 19 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Thu 20 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Fri 21 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sat 22 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sun 23 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Mon 24 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Tue 25 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Wed 26 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Thu 27 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Fri 28 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sat 29 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sun 30 Apr 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Mon 1 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Tue 2 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Wed 3 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Thu 4 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Fri 5 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sat 6 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Date:
Sun 7 May 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00pm
Venue:
Academy galleries
1 Queens Wharf
Wellington
Category:
Visual Arts, Arts Culture, Exhibitions, Free Entry Event, Ethnic Communities, Ceramic, Sculpture
Accessibility:
Wheelchair Access, Accessible Toilets
Cost:
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Listed By:
NZ Academy of Fine Arts
Event Contact:
13 April – 7 May 2023
An international touring exhibition of unique Peruvian folk art brought to Wellington from its successful Japanese tour courtesy of the Embassy of Peru.
The Peruvian Andes have a mystical aura, where ancestral beliefs based on nature and the magic of objects mix with Christian faith. In the south of Peru in Pucará-Puno, spiritualism and ceramic art combine in the “Torito de Pucará”, a unique cultural artifact full of symbols and details that has become representative of the Pucará culture and of Peruvian culture generally.
These colourful ceramics date to the arrival of the Spanish and introduction of bulls into traditional festivals. Today it is common to find colourful ceramic representations of bulls as ornaments both inside homes and on the ridges of their roofs, usually in pairs that capture the fusion of positive and negative energies to act as a symbol of protection and happiness for the families within.
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