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Biography
1978
David Silvestre Chávez Galdos, was born in the city of Cusco-Peru in 1978, being the eighth son of the “Chavez Galdos Family”, a self-taught artist, who traditionally dedicates himself to cultivating the Art of Painting of the Cusqueña School, a art that has passed from parents to children, thanks to family artistic talent and anonymous painters.
He lived his childhood in his birthplace, Cusco, Nazca and Ica, from an early age the art of pictorial expressions was showing a fast and great learning with his first drawings, revealing a great talent for to explore.
1986
After the death of his father (Silvestre Chávez Mercado 1940-1986), the support of his primary school teacher Norma Velarde was of vital importance in falling in love with this wonderful world of plastic art, participating with his first strokes and brushstrokes in drawing contests. and paint.
1993
In 1993 he entered the Faculty of Economics at the San Antonio Abad University of Cusco, studies that were accompanied by art, in this period he also deepened his knowledge in Colonial Art, working in the workshop of his cousin Juancancio. Place where he would learn to take advantage of all the natural talent, to express his ideas and thoughts in oil paintings.
1999
In 1999, after finishing his studies, with the support of his older brother Melquiades and two of his brothers Luis Alberto and Clorinda, they founded the workshop called “Painting of the Cusqueña School of the Chavez Galdos Family”, a pleasant experience where love and knowledge religious colonial art was increasing with the day to day family sharing between brushstrokes and colors. Starting local, national and international exhibitions.
2004 - 2008
– “Cusco Devotions” Merced Museum, Santiago de Chile 2004
– “Art with History and religiosity” Chapel of Calama-Chile 2008 was his first international exhibition with the support of Carlos Gonzalez Riffo of Chilean nationality, historian and lover of pre-Columbian culture. Spreading in each work the spirit of colonial art called “Escuela Cusqueña”
In 2004, he married Rosalina Álvarez Olgado, with whom he has a daughter, the light of her life, Danica Paola Chávez Álvarez.
Together they founded the religious art workshop and gallery “Painting Colonial Cusco”, a workshop that to date serves as the cradle of knowledge and development of the Art of the Cusco School, passionate young people, lovers of brush and color, pass through its environments and easels.
