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Inaugurarán en Camagüey proyecto Los artistas magos

Carol — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:23:08 +0000

From Principe, Portale de la Cultura for Camagüey

Inaugurarán en Camagüey proyecto Los artistas magos

09-12-2009

Camagüey- El proyecto “Los artistas magos”, con obras de los creadores lugareños Joel Jover y Osmany Soler, y el canadiense James K. M., quedará inaugurado el 18 de diciembre, a las nueve de la noche, en el Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas de Camagüey.

La muestra cuenta con una serie de 34 piezas bidimensionales. Pável Alejandro Barrios Sosa, curador de la exposición, pretende mostrar la forma en que estos artistas, tal vez de manera instintiva o subconsciente, han revisitado las dos tesis primigenias del arte.

Un conjunto de símbolos y signos confluyen en “Los artistas magos”, como una suerte de traducción, desde sus estéticas personales, de la persistencia o connotaciones que los orígenes del arte adquieren aún hoy en la contemporaneidad.

La exposición presentará un performance, a manera de apertura, en el cual el líder espiritual de los descendientes de indígenas cubanos, realizará una de las ceremonias del tabaco, practicada por nuestros ancestros, en este caso, para bendecir la muestra y a todos los presentes.

Enviado por Centro Provincial de las Artes Plásticas Camagüey
Con la colaboración de María de los Ángeles Díaz, Comunicadora, Dir. Prov. de Cultura.

Los Artistas Magos Opening Photos

Carol — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:00:54 +0000

CUBA-INAUGURAN EN CAMAGUEY EXPOSICION COLECTIVA “LOS ARTISTAS MAGOS”
Click on the image to view Official Photos taken at the opening of the exhibition Los Artistas Magos, or link below.

http://fotos.ain.cu/main.php?g2_itemId=149798

Camagüey and Canada in visual arts exhibition

Carol — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:37:31 +0000

Characteristic elements of primitive art are present in the exhibition that took place in that city, with pieces from Joel Jover and Osmany Soler, both from Camaguey province, and the Canadian James K-M.
The exhibition was opened in the gallery of República Street, with creations whose contents express naturalistic pictography and abstract ideography.

According to the organizing commission, it included the presence of the authors of the pieces and among other guests; there was Francisco (Panchito) Ramírez, considered to be the “cacique” (chief) of Caridad de los Indios, a community from Guantanamo where descendants from aboriginal people still exist.

The region of Camaguey has one of the main pictography regions in the country, the northern Sierra de Cubitas, which covers about 60 kilometres long and the greatest mountain range in the province with the greatest plains.

The Pichardo, María Teresa, los Generales and las Mercedes caves are among the ceremonial sites where the indo-Cuban communities, who lived in the savannas to the north of the mountains, left their drawings. This is according to some researched headed by Doctor Jorge Calvera.

References to the pictography from María Teresa are seen in the anti-slavery novel Sab, by the poet and writer from Camaguey Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.

Source: ACN

Interview on TV

Carol — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:28:28 +0000

The whole family at our casa particulare gathered around the tv set to see this clip on television, outlining the upcoming exhibition Los Artistas Magos. James K-M was interviewed, then the curator, Pavel Alejandro Barrios Sosa and the historian from Baracoa, Alejandro Hartmann Matos talked about the exhibition and the opening which featured a ceremony by Panchito.