Alberto Casari

He studied literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú from 1973 to 1975 and painting at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1975 to 1977, Between 1978 and 1980, he travelled through South America and worked as a sailor on a cargo ship. In 1980 he moved to Paris and then to Florence, where he lived and worked from 1983 to 1996.
In 1994, while in Italy, he creates The PPPP Project (Productos Peruanos Para Pensar or Peruvian Productos To think), is the extensive performantic work of Alberto Casari and his alter ego partners Alfredo Covarrubias, Arturo Kobayashi and alias El Místico. PPPP is a company in which the artist depersonalizes to disappear as an individual creator, deciding on the anonymity of a logo. With heteronomy he questioned the obsession with the signature as a seal of the artist and the fetishism centered in the possession of the picture like the essential in the relation between man and art. Since then, Casari & PPPP produce art with different means, like the painting, in charge of Kobayashi and alias El Místico, and the visual poetry and the texts written by Covarrubias.