NewsWhore
08-18-2009, 05:12 PM
The Biennial of Visual Arts opened at the Museum of Modern Art at Plaza de la Cultura in Santo Domingo on Sunday, 16 August. The event this year is dedicated to painter Ramon Oviedo, on his 85 years. This is a collective exhibition of some of the best in contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, multimedia, ceramics, visual plastic arts, performances and installations.
Pascal Mecariello, won the grand prize of the Biennial, RD$500,000 and a permanent presence in the museum for his "Acuario Voraz" exhibit.
The individual category awards for RD$250,000 went to:
Luis E. Reyes Guzman, painting "Golden Years"
Joery Santos Gomez: painting "Multipolaridad"
Miguel Ramirez: installation "Odiseo"
Fausto Ortiz: installation "Laberinto"
Hulda Guzman: "Omega se casa con mi hermana"
Jochy Munoz: video-performance "Diptico"
Ricardo Hernandez: photography "Raw, controversial y espinoso"
Sayuri Guzman: performance "Toda la verdad"
Maria Elena Ditren, director of the MAM, said that conferences, encounters, workshops and concerts are taking place parallel to the exhibits and the contest. "The Biennial seeks to stimulate, show, evaluate, and give value to and project the development of Dominican contemporary visual arts, to as to foster creativity and diversity of styles of the arts to benefit the artists and all sectors of society," she says.
The jurors that preselected the works that competed in the Biennial this year were:
Fernando Rueda Koster, director of the Centro Cultural de Espana, Lucrecia Vega Gramunt, and Dominican artists Mayra Jonson, Luis Alberto Rodriguez and Bismark Victoria.
The jurors that decided on the winners of the prizes were:
Rogelio Polesello from Argentina, Fernando Castro from Espana, Dominican art historian Sara Herman, and university professors Odalis Perez and Alonso Cuevas.
The Museum of Modern Art is open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 5 pm. Tel. 809 685-2153.
The exhibition will be open through 15 November.
For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)
Pascal Mecariello, won the grand prize of the Biennial, RD$500,000 and a permanent presence in the museum for his "Acuario Voraz" exhibit.
The individual category awards for RD$250,000 went to:
Luis E. Reyes Guzman, painting "Golden Years"
Joery Santos Gomez: painting "Multipolaridad"
Miguel Ramirez: installation "Odiseo"
Fausto Ortiz: installation "Laberinto"
Hulda Guzman: "Omega se casa con mi hermana"
Jochy Munoz: video-performance "Diptico"
Ricardo Hernandez: photography "Raw, controversial y espinoso"
Sayuri Guzman: performance "Toda la verdad"
Maria Elena Ditren, director of the MAM, said that conferences, encounters, workshops and concerts are taking place parallel to the exhibits and the contest. "The Biennial seeks to stimulate, show, evaluate, and give value to and project the development of Dominican contemporary visual arts, to as to foster creativity and diversity of styles of the arts to benefit the artists and all sectors of society," she says.
The jurors that preselected the works that competed in the Biennial this year were:
Fernando Rueda Koster, director of the Centro Cultural de Espana, Lucrecia Vega Gramunt, and Dominican artists Mayra Jonson, Luis Alberto Rodriguez and Bismark Victoria.
The jurors that decided on the winners of the prizes were:
Rogelio Polesello from Argentina, Fernando Castro from Espana, Dominican art historian Sara Herman, and university professors Odalis Perez and Alonso Cuevas.
The Museum of Modern Art is open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 5 pm. Tel. 809 685-2153.
The exhibition will be open through 15 November.
For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)