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Elliot Túpac

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Elliot Túpac
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BornElliot Tupac Urcuhuaranga Cárdenas[1]
1978/1979 (age 47–48)[2]
Huancayo, Peru
💼 Occupation
Known for
🌐 Websiteelliottupac.com

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Elliot Túpac is a Peruvian muralist, lettering artist, and screen printer. His work is based on the silkscreened concert posters of Peruvian chicha music,[3] and he is credited with reviving the chicha poster and elevating it from the street into art galleries.[4]

Early life

Túpac was born in Huancayo, in Peru's Mantaro Valley, and settled in Lima.[2] His mother was an artisan of Wanka embroidery,[4] and his father, Fortunato Urcuhuaranga, made silkscreened concert posters in the 1980s for such chicha musicians as Chacalón, Pascualillo [es], Los Shapis, and Rey Vico [es], and taught his son the technique.[2][4] Túpac began making posters himself at about age 11,[3] and worked with Monky.[5] He studied communications.[6]

Career

Túpac's "Libertad" mural at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., 2015
Portrait of Chabuca Granda in Lima, painted with Decertor in 2015
Screen prints La Suerte Cuesta Trabajo ('Luck Takes Work') and El Amor Cura ('Love Heals'), shown at the Folklife Festival, 2015

As an artist, Túpac is self-taught.[6] He works in hand-drawn lettering and screen printing.[4][7] His style of letterforms is similar to the embroidery of the Mantaro Valley.[2] Túpac has painted murals in Peru and internationally, including in Chile, England, Tunisia, and the United States,[1][4][7][8] and has taught and lectured abroad.[9][10] He has produced commercial design work for brands including BBVA, Cristal, Dunkin' Donuts, Marca Perú [es], Movistar, Puma, and Saga Falabella.[4][6] He also did design work for the films Madeinusa (2006) and La teta asustada (2009).[2]

Selected works
Date Title of work Location Details Ref.
January 2010 N/A UK Creative Review magazine cover [4]
2012 Equilibrio Providencia, Santiago, Chile Mural for the urban intervention festival Hecho en Casa [1]
2013 N/A Santiago, Chile Official poster for Chilean Lollapalooza [2]
2015 Citizen of the World Newcastle upon Tyne, England Mural for the tenth ¡Vamos! festival of Latin American culture [7]
Portrait of Chabuca Granda Lima, Peru Collaboration with the muralist Decertor [11]
2017 N/A Online Google Doodle of an Andean hummingbird and Machu Picchu for Peru's independence day [12]
November 2020 Memoria Aldo Chamochumbi [es] coliseum, Magdalena del Mar, Peru Mural with Decertor depicting Inti Sotelo and Bryan Pintado, killed during the November 2020 protests [13][14]
N/A Sembrar Amor Recoleta, Santiago, Chile Collaboration with Ignar Haze and Ecos on the role of visual messaging in public space [15]

Critical reception

In 2013, El Comercio wrote that Túpac's work "embodies the maturation of a historical and cultural process begun with South American rural-to-urban migration, one that overcame the prejudice and arrogance of the salons and galleries until it was recognized by the most demanding critics".[lower-alpha 1][2] In 2015, the UK publication The Guardian wrote that Túpac's classic chicha style as a sign writer had earned him international recognition.[16] In his 2021 study of chicha aesthetics, Peruvian sociologist Arturo Quispe Lázaro identified Túpac as the central figure in the revival of chicha style, both in creating a new form of chicha expression and reviving the chicha poster.[4]

Selected exhibitions and collections

  • 2010: Chile Chicha, Galería 13, Santiago, Chile, his first gallery exhibition[4]
  • 2012: Letra Capital, Pancho Fierro art gallery, Lima, solo exhibition curated by César Ramos; his first exhibition in Peru, and the first show of chicha posters in a Lima art gallery[4]
  • 2015: Vibraciones, Pepe Cobo gallery, Barranco, Lima[17]
  • 2019: Exhibition at the gallery of Institut d'études supérieures des arts [fr], Paris, as invited artist of a two-week program of Peruvian culture in France[6]
  • 2019: Revolución Chicha, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, group exhibition of Peruvian chicha art curated by Andrew Mroczek[18]
  • 2024: Contemporáneo 1, MAC Lima, long-term exhibition of the museum's permanent collection[19]
  • 2024: 20th-anniversary exhibitions, Galería ÍNDIGO, San Isidro, new collection and live mural[20]
  • 2026: Somos Libres. Volumen 2, Ministry of Culture, Lima, group exhibition curated by Martín Yépez[21]

Notes

  1. ↑ The quote in its original Spanish is: "la maduración de un proceso histórico y cultural iniciado con la migración campo-ciudad sudamericana, que ha vencido los prejuicios y la soberbia de los salones y las galerías hasta ser reconocido por la crítica más exigente."[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Adriasola, Lucía (25 October 2014). "Alcaldesa de Providencia se disculpa por borrado de grafiti" [Providencia mayor apologizes for erasure of graffiti]. El Mercurio (in español). Santiago, Chile. ProQuest 1616161214.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Castro, Raúl (9 April 2013). "Chicha for export". El Comercio (in español). ProQuest 1324598254.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Chicha". Faces. Vol. 31 no. 7. July–August 2015. pp. 38–39. ISSN 0749-1387.
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 Quispe Lázaro, Arturo (2021). "Estética chicha: nuevas formas de creatividad popular en Lima de inicios del siglo XXI" [Chicha aesthetics: new forms of popular creativity in Lima at the start of the 21st century]. Debates en Sociología (in español) (52): 65–97. doi:10.18800/debatesensociologia.202101.004. eISSN 2304-4584 Check |eissn= value (help).
  5. ↑ Tolentino, Scheila (9 February 2024). "La historia de Pedro 'Monky' Rojas, el peruano que creó los afiches chicha" [The story of Pedro 'Monky' Rojas, the Peruvian who created chicha posters]. La República (in español). Lima. ProQuest 2924617771.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Batallé, Jordi (5 November 2019). "El muralista peruano Elliot Tupac expone en la Quincena de Perú en Francia" [Peruvian muralist Elliot Tupac exhibits at the Peru Fortnight in France]. RFI (in español). Archived from the original on 5 November 2019.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "A Flavour of Peru on Tyneside". The Journal. Newcastle upon Tyne. 22 June 2015. p. 24. ProQuest 1690170351.
  8. ↑ Yang, Ina (7 July 2015). "Peruvians Love Their Chicha Street Art. City Officials ... Not So Much". NPR. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015.
  9. ↑ de la Sotta Donoso, Romina (2 June 2016). "El Festival 'Arica Barroca' expande sus fronteras" [The 'Arica Barroca' festival expands its borders]. El Mercurio (in español). ProQuest 1793199908.
  10. ↑ "Inicia VI Bienal Latinoamericana de Tipografía" [Sixth Latin American Typography Biennial opens] (in español). Notimex. 26 June 2014. ProQuest 1540719425.
  11. ↑ Klein, Ricardo (December 2018). "La ciudad y el turismo. Experiencias desde la gestión del street art" [The city and tourism. Experiences from managing street art]. Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (in español): 54–71. doi:10.21747/08723419/soctem2018a3.
  12. ↑ Anselmo, Renzo (28 July 2026). "Google dedica animación especial al Perú por su 205.° aniversario de la Independencia Nacional este 28 de julio" [Google dedicates a special animation to Peru for the 205th anniversary of national independence this 28 July]. La República (in español). ProQuest 3369656023.
  13. ↑ "Destruyen el mural en memoria de Inti y Bryan en Magdalena" [Mural in memory of Inti and Bryan destroyed in Magdalena]. El Comercio (in español). 15 June 2022. ProQuest 2676490677.
  14. ↑ "Magdalena: presentan mural artístico en homenaje de Bryan e Inti" [Magdalena: artistic mural presented in homage to Bryan and Inti]. La República (in español). 25 November 2020. ProQuest 2469396679.
  15. ↑ Hess, Natalia (7 January 2026). "Qué hacer en Santiago: ruta de murales urbanos" [What to do in Santiago: urban mural route]. La Nación (in español). ProQuest 3291639142.
  16. ↑ Coldwell, Will (5 September 2015). "Newly buzzing Lima vies with Peru's ancient sites for visitor attention". The Guardian. p. 2. ProQuest 1709573460.
  17. ↑ "Nuevos espacios de Elliot Túpac" [New spaces of Elliot Túpac]. Caretas (in español). No. 2414. 3 December 2015. Archived from the original on 5 December 2015. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ "'Revolución Chicha' on view at Lesley University". Wicked Local. 25 November 2019. Archived from the original on 15 February 2026.
  19. ↑ "MAC Lima inaugura exposición permanente 'Contemporáneo 1'" [MAC Lima opens permanent exhibition 'Contemporáneo 1']. La República (in español). 16 December 2024. ProQuest 3146048916.
  20. ↑ "ÍNDIGO celebra su XX aniversario" [ÍNDIGO celebrates its 20th anniversary]. La República (in español). 26 November 2024. ProQuest 3133589913.
  21. ↑ Ruiz Ortega, Gabriel (3 April 2026). "Una sólida muestra colectiva: 'Somos Libres. Volumen 2' en el Mincul" [A solid group show: 'Somos Libres. Volumen 2' at the Ministry of Culture]. La República (in español). ProQuest 3325602129.

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