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Chicha posters

This is, in our modest opinion, the greatest graphic advocate for the culture of cumbia and chicha music. In contrast to the gray spring weather, the colors of these posters were like a light at the end of a tunnel: Totally hypnotic. By all means possible we had to try our own version and thanks to Jules Bay, curator of the exhibition, we were brought 13 kilometers outside of the city to meet the Urcuhuaranga brothers. There they explained to us how their father had invented this technic.

The posters are designed by hand, in their actual size, on plain white butcher paper. This design is what will be used once cut, as a template for our silkscreen prints. There is no use of chemicals and no photographic processes. It is this paper that clogs the mesh of the screen, and once finished, nothing remains of the original design, making it impossible to repeat this poster in the same way.

The information provided on the poster is structured in the same way, facilitating the reading for the viewer: Day, place and musical group. Following this formula we developed five posters, from a very satirical standpoint, about four topics that attracted our attention in Lima: The food, the weather, the submerged economy and filthy traffic as well as an individual poster that was purely self-promotional.

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