Rafael Pascuale Zamora

Showing of Ink Drawings and paintings

Rafael Pascuale is an artist born in Lima, Peru. From a very young age, he developed an affinity for self-exploration and trial and error as a way of learning, which led him to become a self-taught artist. His environment was quite Catholic, which led him to focus on the images surrounding this dogma, either as a way to understand his cultural/familial surroundings or to understand his role in the learned religious thought. For Rafael, these images filled with pain, sadism, anguish, and emotionality have a strong influence on his work, not because of their evident religious cult, but because of their great historical impact, their ability to shape contemporary society, and create archetypal images capable of influencing the human being through its evolution. In addition to his fixation on this subject, Rafael developed an interest in various philosophical currents concerning metaphysics, psychology, theories of reality construction, as well as schools of thought such as transcendentalism, Buddhism, and various forms of Eastern thought.
There is also a personal baggage in Pascuale’s work, where one of the transcendental themes in his work is the understanding of death as an absolute truth, the philosophical thoughts that revolve around it, and the relationship between the body (as the receptacle of consciousness), fragility (linked to the transience of physical states), time (as the anchor of reality), and the spirit (as an arcane element), with these concepts being a projection of his experiences and his relationship with his own fragility related to the diseases that have afflicted him throughout his life.
Over the years, he developed a self-taught work method, focusing on learning classical artistic techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, and engraving, showing a clear influence of Italian, Spanish, German, and Dutch Baroque art. This helped him achieve his own language and, based on what he learned, he distanced himself from a realistic approach to images, distorting and manipulating them, thus generating an element that lies beyond the human.

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