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Laudable Latins
March 3, 2007 through April 15, 2007
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens presents Laudable Latins, March 3, 2007 through April 15, 2007, an exhibition featuring the works of the following artists:
- Carlos Estévez
- Alberto Gomez
- Connie Lloveras
- Cecilia Lueza
- Alejandro Mendoza
- Helio Salcedo
The exhibition joins the sensibilities of six artists of Latin descent. "Laudable Latins" offers five unique invitations for archiving the buried voices we all push down and back, or fail to recognize altogether. These are mindful works of thoughtful souls. The commonality is its palpable searching quality. Most telegraphic in his excavation for truth would likely be Carlos Estévez.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Estévez graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, and has won several national and international awards including the Gran Premio Salón de la Ciudad in Havana in 1994. He has exhibited widely in the U.S., as well, including the recent exhibition, "Cuba From the Inside Looking Out", at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Inversely, Estévez’s work could be described as a type of voyeurism, observed from the outside, looking in. This isn’t a salacious perception as much as revealing his marionette-style figures' innermost motivations. The oils and mixed-media large scale works are a collaboration of Baroque-like figurative line drawings and architectural, machine-like inner workings. The story is the unseen, the maps, the blueprints which engineer our obsessions, illusions and expectations.
Also of particular interest is the work of Cecilia Lueza, an Argentine artist residing in Miami. Lueza’s work has found the perfect pairing of the surreal and the tangible. These figurative images, technically executed, are tranquilizing yet energetic. It is difficult to determine what engages more, the ethereal quality or the dynamic color. One way or another, Lueza grabs and doesn’t let go.
Cuban-born Miami artist Connie Lloveras takes us on a more gentle journey with her grand mixed media on canvas. The stories told are uniquely hers, with titles like “Resurrection” and “Watering the Abyss” Lloveras unfurls a conscious heart, brimming with an offer for sense, balance and order in an out-of-control world. Along the way, these images have such a grounded language, a symbolism so comfortable and accessible that Llovares' work feels like a familiar voice rattling at your psyche to wake-up, look close, appreciate.
Alejandro Mendoza’s Cross Series of mixed-media wood and charcoal on canvas explores the layered symbolism of the cross. “To translate my artistic literature into a cross-shape supporting element underlines, above all, my inevitable cultural position; the pleasure resulting from going against; the terrible and vulgar idea of reforming, rebuilding and modernizing images we have from time to time.” Mendoza’s powerful work is an exploration which many will find relevant.
Works from the exhibition. Click on an image to view it in full-screen mode.
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Please join us for a private preview reception for Museum members, the artists, and their guests, on Friday, March 2, 2007, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
The Museum staff is happy to accommodate media outlets by arranging artist/curator interviews or photo, film, and video shoot schedules with advance notice. Contact Museum Director, Ann Burt, or Curator of Education and Special Events, Barbara Saunders, at (386) 676-3347 for more information.
Museum hours are Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Seniors (60+), students and children are admitted to the Museum free of charge every day; a $2 donation is suggested for adult visitors.
The Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens is located at 78 E. Granada Boulevard (SR 40), Ormond Beach, beachside, on the southeast corner of Granada Boulevard and Halifax Avenue. Phone (386) 676-3347 for details and information.
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