Nicario Jiménez Quispe
Peruvian artist
Nicario Jiménez Quispe (born in 1957) is a Peruvian-American maker of the Peruvian retablo or the retablo ayacuchano.
He was born in the village of Alcamenca in Ayacucho, Peru, high in the Andes mountain range.
Life
Nicario Jiménez Quispe (Quispe is his mother’s name) is a master artisan of the craft of making retablos. He was born 1957 in a small highland Andean village near Ayacucho.
He has attended the University of San Marcos in Lima, and other universities in Peru,studying sculpture. He is a fourth generation retablo artist, and the family trade goes back to his father, grandfather, and his great-grandfather, which he has felt the attraction to from an early age, and he crafted his first piece at the age of 5 or 6.
Political violence and the fighting between the Peruvian Army and the Marxist Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”) guerrillas around Ayacucho has forced many peasant families lie his in the area to migrate to the capital city of Lima, where they make and sell their crafts commercially.
A decade after moving, Nicario Jiménez had his first chance to display his retablos alongside those of his father in a Lima gallery. The quality of and unique style of his work quickly caught the attention of many Peruvian and foreign connoisseurs of retablo folk art. In 1986 he opened his own workshop-gallery in Lima.
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