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La Cantuta, a homage to the victims of violence in Peru (2005), 60,000 black crepe paper roses, furniture, Gallery ARTCO, Lima Peru.

The Best of 2005
La Primera Newspaper, December 28th, Lima Peru.

“The best installation of 2005 was La Cantuta by Cesar Cornejo, a consistent proposal and a magnificent realization.”
Jorge Bernuy, Art Critic, Lima Peru.

“ The best installations of 2005 were La Cantuta de Cesar Cornejo at the Gallery Artco; and Still Life, at the Art Museum of Lima.
Jorge Villacorta, Art Critic, Lima Peru.

“The best installations of 2005 were Corinne Gourre at the Italian Museum of Art; and La Cantuta, by Cesar Cornejo at the Gallery Artco.
Elida Roman, Art Critic, Lima Peru.

The Best of 2005,
Newspaper El Comercio, El Dominical, December 25th 2005, Lima Peru.

By Diego Otero

La Cantuta

Cesar Cornejo, a peruvian artist that lives abroad more than 10 years, presented a striking installation at the new space of the art gallery Artco. The work, briefly entitled La Cantuta, was made of aproximately 60,000 black paper flowers, that covered the whole area and furniture, a space that resembled that of a classroom. But not of any classroom, but one which had nine student desks and one teachers desk, in clear reference to the nine students and a teacher of the Unversity Enrique Guzman y Valle kidnapped and killed in 1992. A black carpet made of black flowers, as the remains of a silent ritual to honour the victims of social violence: a mourning and a reminder.