The Potosi Principle

This volume is published as part of the Potosí Principle research and exhibition project, spanning the beginning of modernity, a period of primitive accumulation of capital following the conquest of the Americas at the end of the fifteenth century, and compiling, as a catalogue for an exhibition with great theoretical depth, examples of colonial Andean painting and artworks by international artists invited to find and draw up correspondence between colonial art between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and the contemporary world. The research looks to relate these fragments of closed history with conditions of artistic production today, the different sections dealing with themes such as the circulation of images, Hispanicity, the mixing of races and the original accumulation of capital.