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05-10-2007, 03:40 PM
The Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Switzerland, The Museum Bellapart and the Universal Postal Union welcome, for the first time in Switzerland, a retrospective exhibition of the Dominican contemporary painter, Jaime Colson (1901-1975). The exhibition will be open 16 May-15 June at the Universal Postal Union building in Berne, the capital of Switzerland. The showing coincides with the blooming of thousands of tulips on the grounds of the UPU headquarters, site of the 2007 International Peace Garden.
The Colson exhibition, on loan from the Bellapart Museum in Santo Domingo, features 36 paintings produced between 1919 and 1973 by this artist, acclaimed as the most important painter of the Dominican Republic. Jaime Colson, a passionate rebel at heart, whose life was an endless journey from country to country, experimented with many artistic styles, mainly cubism, surrealism and neoclassicism, all of which celebrate the human body, and are permeated with his strong native influence. This painter's European training and his American sensitivity have made him one of the leading artists of the Caribbean.
The exhibition is possible thanks to participation of the Ambassador Jose Ares and Minister Counsellor Juan Alcantara of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Switzerland and the sponsorship of Air Europe, DHL and Seguros Universal.
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The Colson exhibition, on loan from the Bellapart Museum in Santo Domingo, features 36 paintings produced between 1919 and 1973 by this artist, acclaimed as the most important painter of the Dominican Republic. Jaime Colson, a passionate rebel at heart, whose life was an endless journey from country to country, experimented with many artistic styles, mainly cubism, surrealism and neoclassicism, all of which celebrate the human body, and are permeated with his strong native influence. This painter's European training and his American sensitivity have made him one of the leading artists of the Caribbean.
The exhibition is possible thanks to participation of the Ambassador Jose Ares and Minister Counsellor Juan Alcantara of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Switzerland and the sponsorship of Air Europe, DHL and Seguros Universal.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)