Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Hives With Swollen Hands And Feet

José María Arguedas in Andahuaylas

The transfer of a cultural hero to Andahuaylas

El Comercio, July 26, 2009

Eng Marcial Gutiérrez Ludeman, managed the transfer of the remains of the great apurimeño

Pilgrimage. mid 2004, the body of José María Arguedas was transferred to his native Andahuaylas. The fact originated opinions, but in fact it was proven the enormous affection and gratitude of thousands of villagers to the figure of the writer.
rested elsewhere, although the will of José María Arguedas was that his remains repose in Andahuaylas, the town where he was born. (Picture: www.perutoptours.com/index03an_jose_maria_arg ... )

The idea of \u200b\u200btaking them to their land gained strength. There were opponents and supporters. For four years, from 2000 to 2004, steps were taken in all instances. It went to the National Institute of Culture (INC), the Ministry of Health, Public Welfare of Lima and a long list of institutions.


Until the day arrived. The body of Jose Maria Arguedas left Lima headed for Andahuaylas. Two vehicles made the trip in a coffin was in the other, those who did their desire to rest forever under the sky of Andahuaylas. Three days was the trip along the route: Huancayo, Ayacucho, Andahuaylas. Marcial Gutierrez Ludeman, president of the Provincial Club Andahuaylas charge of all this effort, says, "it was not easy, until we began trials."

MASS RECEPTION
The remains of Jose Maria Arguedas reached Andahuaylas the June 29, 2004. The reception was crowded. Now rests at the foot of his monument on Avenida Martinelli.
On the subject, the writer Alonso Cueto wrote: "In 2004, the writer's corpse was unearthed from a cemetery Andahuaylas Lima and carried by a group of people of their homeland. For several days the entire population of Andahuaylas paraded in front of the coffin. School children recited pages of his books. The residents sang along to his statue. At that time there was only a writer who revered the Andahuaylas. He was a saint or, more accurately, a cultural hero. It was he who had imagined a better world for all. He had sought a different language, a language that integrate into the world while maintaining its identity Quechua. "
The Movement Arts All of which are managers and painters Alejandro Antonio Galindo, among others, organizes annual meetings in Andahuaylas art. In tandem with the shipment, the municipality has allocated Andahuaylas an acre of land to raise Arguedas Museum, dedicated to the cultural hero who speaks Cueto.


ANDAHUAYLAS SHAPES AND COLORS

Among
art sculptures and paintings, added over a hundred voluntary contributions of many Peruvian artists for the project of the Museum of Fine Arts of Peru José María Arguedas, in Andahuaylas, ground great writer. As a growing city, Andahuaylas need to be inserted in artistic and cultural activities that yield information to enrich pictorial Peruvian plastic eyes, criteria, actions, feelings, perceptions that the benefit of our human condition and the increasingly urgent strengthening of our identity .
Within this cross-motivation and contribution to the realization of the museum José María Arguedas, 10, opened last July in Lima, at the headquarters of the University of Technology, the group show "Llaqtayrayku" (For my land) with the participation of many painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. The exhibition is open until April 14, 2010 at Av Petit Thouars 195.

Source: http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/impresa/notas/traslado-heroe-cultural/

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