Protocols in the restoration of Peru's Cultural Heritage: The case of Joaquín Roca Rey's sculptural group "Los ángeles del juicio" (The Angels of Judgment).

Abstract

The Cultural Heritage of Peru is the legacy that hold our identity as a nation shows the world our heritages and gives us continuity over time. Its preservation must be an essential matter, therefore, as a basic principle; all restoration work must respect aesthetic, historic, spiritual and social meaning of the cultural heritage. This article analyzes the case of the restoration of "Los ángeles del juicio" sculpture made by the Peruvian artist Joaquín Roca Rey and located in the portico of the cemetery "El Ángel". A review of the life and work of the artist, indicates that the formal, iconographic and iconological particularities of his plastic production are the result of his interest in a new aesthetic movement that entered in Peru in the late thirties decade, called "modern art". In this sense, it has been noted that the restoration of the aforementioned sculptural group has modified its original forms and has not taken into account an in-depth study of its formal appearance and the symbolism that it determined, revealing the absence of a normative protocol that regulates actions to restore the Cultural Heritage of Peru.