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February 17, 2021 at 4:02pm
Peruvian artist Teresa Burga, known for her involvement in the ’60s neo-avant-garde Grupo Arte Nuevo, died of Covid-19 on February 11 in Peru at eighty-five. Burga’s work in painting, sculpture, cybernetics, and installation applied conceptual strategies to questions of gender and labor, exploring the implications of systematization on modern life.
Born in Iquitos, Peru, in 1935, Burga studied painting at the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima, graduating in 1965. The following year, she, Jaime Dávila, Gloria Gómez-Sánchez, Luis Arias Vera, and a few others founded Grupo Arte Nuevo, a collective that brought new artistic movements such as Op, Pop, Minimalism, and happenings to the Peruvian scene. During this period, Burga produced sculptural works she called “