I have painted about how the beings can transform themselves

The paintings of Enrique Casanto, ashaninka from the Orchid clan, make you see double because they show that everything that exists has its double. Everything is at the same time human and not-human, including himself and all those of the Casanto clan, descending from the great Orchid warrior of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Casanto, Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:Repositorio UN
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/51138
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/51138
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/45210/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ashaninka
Amazonía peruana
arte contemporáneo indígena
chamanismo amazónico
Peruvian Amazonia
indigenous contemporary art
Amazonian shamanism
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Sumario:The paintings of Enrique Casanto, ashaninka from the Orchid clan, make you see double because they show that everything that exists has its double. Everything is at the same time human and not-human, including himself and all those of the Casanto clan, descending from the great Orchid warrior of the past who used the strategies of a flower quietly resting on a branch to defeat his enemies. Being so much like an orchid, he ended up transforming in to such a plant. His art shows the passage from one shape to the other as it takes place in cosmology and shamanism.