Painting titled “The Punishment of the Runamula”

Peruvian artist Gino Ceccarelli donates a painting titled “The Punishment of the Runamula” to the Salamanca City Council

Gino Ceccarelli is in Salamanca for the XXVII Meeting of Ibero-American Poets

The painting measures 2 by 1.70 meters and will become part of the DA2 contemporary art collection

For forty years his plastic work has been inspired by the myths and legends of the Amazon and the worldview of the various cultures that inhabit it

The Peruvian artist Gino Ceccarelli has donated a painting titled “The Punishment of the Runamula” to the Salamanca City Council, which will become part of the DA2 art collection.

The Runamula is a mythical character from the Peruvian Amazon, where it is said that women who have relations with priests or incestuous women on moonlit nights, become centaurs and gallop through the town breathing fire.

Gino Ceccarelli was born in the Amazon (Iquitos, Peru, 1960) and studied at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Iquitos, at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima, in the Cristina Gálvez workshop, at the Corcoran School in Washington D.C., and in engraving and painting workshops in Paris. He is a visual artist, graphic designer, researcher and consultant on culture and tourism in the Amazon, cartoonist, illustrator, sculptor, theater decorator, producer of film and television projects, opinion columnist and Sunday writer.

For forty years his plastic work has been inspired by the myths and legends of the Amazon and the worldview of the diverse cultures that inhabit it.

He has held more than forty solo exhibitions, of which only five were held in Peru. Notable among his works are those at the Museo de Arte Italiano in Lima in 1987, at the Galerie de la Banque Nationale in Paris in 1993, at the Galerie Nesle in Paris in 1995, at the Museo Casa de América in Madrid in 1997, at l’Arche de la Défense in Paris in 1998, at the Museo de la Nación in Lima in 1999, at the Museo Manzana de la Ribera in Asunción in 2000, at the International Art Expo in New York in 2000, at the University of Chile in 2002, at the Mairie de Rennes in 2003, at the Museo de Osma in Lima in 2008, and in 2014, at the Museo de Arte de San Marcos in Lima in 2010.

In 2011 he was a special guest at the exhibition Comparaisons in Paris. He exhibited at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington D.C. in 2013, at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia) in 2015, and at the Fondation Taylor in Paris, the Galerie Peyer in Zurich and the Galerie Abraço in Lisbon in 2018. In 2019 he was invited by Petroperú for a major exhibition, Entre el semicielo y el semimundo, at the Museo de la Nación in Lima. In 2020 he participated in the Biennial of Indigenous Art “Bitácora para un sueño” and in 2023 he exhibited El otro mundo at Casa Fugaz in Monumental Callao.

He was selected by UNESCO for the traveling exhibition through 27 countries in Latin America, the United States and Europe in the Iberoamérica Pinta Project.
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