Opening Reception for Visual Artist Claudio Talavera-Ballón at the Peruvian Embassy

Posted by Susanna at 11:15 AM, Mar 4, 2010 (Comments)

Category: Design & Art

Blanca Ochoa of Embassy of Peru, the visual artist Claudio Talavera-Ballón, and Fernando Quirós, who is the new Deputy Chief of Mission at the Peruvian Embassy.

THE OPENING RECEPTION of "Peru: People and Costumes" - an exhibition with artworks by Peruvian visual artist Claudio Talavera-Ballón (www.talavera-ballon.com) - was held at the Embassy of Peru on Wednesday evening, March 3. Talavera-Ballón, who was born in Arequipa, showed an early talent for drawing and painting. During a few years he worked as a graphic designer. In 1997 he learnt to know the renowned watercolorist Luís Palao Berastain, who became his mentor, and he decided to work professionally as a painter. In 1999 he was invited to move to Calca, a small town outside Cusco, to study watercolor techniques and live with his master for a two-year period, a time during which he fully dedicated himself to painting. Talavera-Ballón's work has been exhibited in several galleries throughout Peru and Chile. He currently resides in Cusco, Peru.

Renato Reyes Tagle, Blanca Ochoa and Luís Chang of the Embassy of Peru

Blanca Ochoa and her brother Dr. Jesús Ochoa Zavaleta

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