¡Encuentro monumental!

About this book

Graphic novel that reflects on the history of Peru from public sculptures located in Lima. The characters of the story are the historical monuments of the city. "Public sculptures express and deposit diverse feelings of the population in front of some characters of their history. Those feelings vary over time. What was once a source of pride can become shame or indifference. What was once love, becomes hate. When the grudge grows, some end up destroyed. All that (and more) live the sculptures.ʺ (HKB Translation) --Page [4]. Author Elio Martuccelli is an architect and is the editor of Arquitextos since 1999, the magazine of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Ricardo Palma University. In his facet as a visual artist he has designed scenographies, murals and various exhibitions and as illustrator of graphic novels.