From Mallaritos to Salerno – Peruvian el Dandy gets to an Italian gallery

The graphic & plastic artist Dandy Ruiz Estrada, a.k.a. el Dandy, is focused in placing that brand to pitch a surrealistic-basis proposal that explores the introspection and the rraw analysis of our society leading in something as basic as the human shape without much decoration but as part of a pretty symbolic environment – optical games, brain challenges, sensual references.

 

But el Dandy wants to link his brand to the place where he born in 1982 – Mallaritos [Mayareetos], a former Marcavelica District’s rural village, now a suburb of Sullana City, here in Peru. In fact, the slogan he uses is “from Mallaritos to the world.”

 

Meanwhile, el Dandy has achieved something that many artist of his kind look for in lifetime – exposing in Europe. In fact, he was invited to join the 4^th Biennial of Contemporary Art, and his pictures were addressed to Salerno, the second largest city in Campania Region, Central Italy, near the classic Naples.

 

el Dandy’s participation was possible because of recommendations by the Colombian cultural stringer Jorge Enrique Londoño with expolatina de Arte, and the art curator Giuseppe Gorga, vice-president of Bienale de Salerno, who got the scientific committee of the exposition chose two works from the Mallaritos-native artist: We inherit from the same father and Releasing Lies.

 

The 4th Biennial was scheduled for November 6^th to 21^st, 2021, in Salerno, and it’s the very first European exposition that el Dandy joins. Before, he was exposing in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, as well as Peru, and obviously Sullana. Other Peruvian artists were also invited to the same biennial.

 

“It’s a pride for me to represent Mallaritos in a too important event like it’s going to happen across Europe, and Italy in particular, that as we know, it’s one of the sources of Modern and Contemporary Art in the whole humankind history,” the plastic & visual artist said in a public statement. “I’m very excited and thankful to have this opportunity and I hope to enlarge my participation in the Old Continent and around the world.”

 

Dandy Ruiz’s work is not only concentrated in painting but video-art, photography (for what he even posed as his own model, and did bodybuilding for a while purposed to that). He also works as a teacher and he has pitched an innovative pedagogic proposal to teach fine arts at schools across Chira Valley. He is also a recurrent contributor for FACTORTIERRA and ChulucanasGym, plus being an illustrator and art advisor.

 

Salerno is a 131,000-people city best known for his medical research, but it owns an archaeological museum, a municipal gallery, and a museum dedicated to History of Medicine. It was also the most important city of Lombardy Kingdom.

 

Get a preview of the works that el Dandy presents right there, and his whole artistic background by visiting and following his Facebook account.