Alfredo Quispez Asin (César Moro) (1903-1956)
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Alfredo Quispez Asin was known by the the pseudonym of César Moro. He was a poet and Peruvian surrealist painter. After a self-taught training he signs his first work, a modern drawing, in 1921 like “Cesar Moro”, name of a character of Ramon Gomez of the Serna. Moro changed his name, his language, and in one sense, his sexuality. A triple outsider Moro published one key poem in French, ‘Renommée de l’amour’, in number 5 of Breton’s magazine Le Surréalisme au Service de la Révolution in May 1933. Moro rejected not only a language, Spanish, but a culture and a history.
In 1925 he travels to Paris, inevitable stop for most of the artists of any activity. Then César Moro tries different artistic areas, attends classes of ballet in the Academy of Ballet, and writes poems. In 1926 he offers his first pictorial exhibition and the second one in 1927, both received favorably reviews. In 1928 he discovers the surrealism and begins to write poems in French language. In the period between 1928 and 1933 he continues with his European activities as much in the scope of painting but mainly in poetry (Ces poèmes) and returns to Lima at the end of 1933. In 1935 he organizes with the poet Adolph Westphalen, the first surrealist exhibition in Latin America, in the Academia Alcedo of Lima. Besides Moro, some Chileans like Jaime Dvor, Waldo Parraguez, Gabriela Rivadeneira, Carlos Sotomayor and Maria Valencia also take part of this exhibition.
In 1938 and due to political reasons Moro leaves his country for Mexico where he will remain for 10 years. During that time he continues his painting activities as well as with poetry. In 1940 he promotes with the painter Wolfgang Paalen and André Bretón the Fourth International Surrealism Exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicano. This event joints paintings of importat artists such as Pablo Picasso, Agustin Lazo and Salvador Dali. He returns to Lima in 1948 to continue writing with the auspices of the French poet André Coyné. He dies in 1956 victim of an unknown disease. His friend and protector André Coyné continued with the work of compilation, edition and information on Moro´s work.
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