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Persi Narvaez

"I'm César Persi Narváez Machicao. I was born in Lima on October 18, 1963. My training in art comes from the ENSABAP.

"I'd describe my work as something unique. It is comprised of incongruent forms like a puzzle that I try to piece together, because often in reality we cannot put together something that has equilibrium like my works. Color detonates the passion existing in me that must come out, according to my mood. When I paint, I enjoy it and suffer at the same time, to such an extent that I may finish in ecstasy, but crying.

"I've dedicated myself to the path of art since 1989. Love is my principal motivation. And I consider myself a product of my social surroundings, influenced by the happenings in my family, politics and society. These make you see things in a different way, and this is what I want to show and make known. The fact of being a product of society doesn't make me a lamb boxed in by cannons that repel and repudiate. Often I consider myself a rebel by the way I act.

"I strive to transmit communication, that everything established isn't pending within art and, through it, we can express ourselves. This, thanks to concepts that we're able to form and express by way of a God-given capacity to create.

"I never thought I'd become an artist. I always planned on a lucrative career with a good position in society, and didn't think about how happy I'd be with what I did. When I was 24, I sat down to analyze my life and what I wanted. I realized that art was a part of me. Art fills me and satisfies me.

"In my family, I've been able to help them adapt to my art. In my personal life, I've been able to overcome a failed love affair. And today, my project is painting, only that. I'd love to depict the churches of Peru someday.

"I give you all these paintings so that in each one you share a part of me. I couldn't paint if I didn't feel it."