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Ibero-Americanmigration 17 Countries 27 Works of Art ASS O C IAT I O N O F I BERO-AMERICAN CULTURAL ATTACH E S www w.iaculturalattach es.org A2 A3 A1 XVI ibero-americanmigration 17 countries 27 works of art DECEMBER 10,2007-FEBRUARY 02,2008 Mexican cultural institute 2829 16 th Street NW ,Washington, DC www.iaculturalattaches.org | Design: cyberferia.com 06 LILIANA ITALIANO 15 GERAR ELLIS 24 BRADDY ROMERO RICALDE ARGENTINA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PERU LEONOR BRAZAO 07 EVANGELINA ELIZONDO 16 JULIO VALDES 25 ARGENTINA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PORTUGAL 08 FLAVIA MONTEIRO 17 KATYA ROMERO 26 PABLO ELIZONDO BRAZIL ECUADOR MEXICO LARA OLIVEIRA 09 18 ROSY REVELO 27 PABLO ELIZONDO BRAZIL ECUADOR MEXICO 10 JULIANA MONCAYO 19 CARLOS BARRIOS 28 RAFAEL ALVARADO COLOMBIA EL SALVADOR SPAIN SAIR GARCIA 11 20 ESRAEL ARAUJO 29 JULIO C. PEREZ COLOMBIA EL SALVADOR SPAIN indice 12 MARIANELA SALGADO SANTOS ARZÚ COSTA RICA 21 30 ANA MÉNDEZ HONDURAS URUGUAY 13 GERMAN TAGLE 22 LIZA DE PRUHDOE CHILE 31 LUIS SCOTTI PANAMA URUGUAY 14 JOAN BELMAR 23 JORGE OCAMPOS SARA NUÑEZ CHILE PARAGUAY 32 VENEZUELA Immigration touches many lives, many issues, and many stories… Immigration is the woman that pays a large sum of money to have herself smuggled into the United States in order to find work to put her children through school. Immigration is the boy who was forced to leave his country after his father was kidnapped and his mother attacked and threatened. Through the eyes of twenty-six Ibero-American artists the viewer is given the opportu- nity to explore the lives and experiences of all those dealing with immigration. This show embodies overlapping themes that are both personal and political. Each work provides an artistic perspective into issues such as border patrol, cultural immersion, discrimination, deportation and the struggle to find a better life. ada hernandez PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION OF IBERO-AMERICAN CULTURAL ATTACHES welcome jack rasmussen jilma prada The Association of Ibero-American Cultural produced tension, and therefore challenges. like to thank Mr. Francisco Pena (Paco), from DIRECTOR AND CURATOR AT PRESIDENT AND OWNER Attaches proudly presents the XVI Art Salon. The exhibit strives to convey how artists use Taberna Del Alabardero, Tapas Bar and THE KATZEN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN OF PRADA GALLERY The exhibit titled MIGRATION is comprised of their talents to express their feelings, percep- Restaurant, for his cooperation. Lastly, a note of UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE paintings gathered by the association's twenty tions, and experiences about migration. appreciation to each of my colleagues for their OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, country members. As president of the Association, I would like to work and collaboration in making this exhibit Migration is an old phenomenon resulting from thank Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator possible, particularly to Mrs. Denisse Yanovich curators the major flow of people related to economics, at The Katzen Museum of American Univer- of the Embassy of Colombia, and to Mr. Juan wars, decolonization, the arrival of natives of sity's College of Arts and Sciences, and Jilma Garcia De Oteisa Director of the Mexican former colonies, political and social crisis, and Prada, owner of Prada Gallery, for their Cultural Institute, for hosting this exhibit. Art the search for a better life. It is fair to say that cooperation as curators of this exhibit. Their knows no boundaries, and we feel that through in recent times globalization has played an expert advice and organizational direction has our cultural manifestations, especially in this important role in this social fabric of our insured that our countrys' individualities are exhibition about Migration, understanding countries, and which, by the inherent nature of respected, while at the same time presenting becomes deeper, friendships grow stronger, and society's cultural differences, has, at times, our similarities as a continent. I would also bridges are built between peoples. excutive board POSITION NAME COUNTRY PRESIDENT Ada Hernandez republica dominicana VICE-PRESIDENT 1° Patricia Abdelnour venezuela VICE-PRESIDENT 2° Cristina Camacho ecuador TREASURER Rene Rodriguez el salvador Karina Guardia SECRETARIAT Maria Antonieta García costa rica membersNAME COUNTRY Marcelo Cima argentina Mariana Grundy bolivia DECEMBER 10,2007-FEBRUARY 02,2008 George Firmeza brazil Christian Campos chile MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE Denisse Yanovich colombia Maria Antonieta Garcia/ Karina Guardia costa rica Cristina Camacho ecuador Rene Rodriguez el salvador 2829 16 th Street NW ,Washington, DC guatemala Guillermo Verde honduras Juan García Oteysa mexico Fernando Coronel nicaragua works Oscar Centurion paraguay panama Jose Mariategui peru Manuel Silva Pereira portugal Jorge Sobredo spain Ada Hernandez dominican republic Nestor Rosa uruguay Patricia Abdelnour Yanet Stable venezuela cuba ARGENTINA Liliana Italiano Evangelina Elizondo ARGENTINA Liliana Italiano was born in Buenos Aires, EVANGELINA ELIZONDO was born in SUDESTADA HUMAN SETTLEMENTS Argentina.She used to dwell in “La Boca”(a Buenos Aires, Argentina where she received Size: 24” x 41” x 1.57” Size: 46” x 46” picturesque neighborhood of this capital city), her degree from the School of Fine Arts, Acrylic on wood Medium: Mixed media on Canvas www.lilianaitaliano.com when she was studying at the National Prilidiano Pueyrredon. She also studied art, Date: 2007 www.eelizondo.com Ceramic School, and then there she probably restoration and special techniques in Argentina [email protected] inhaled the nostalgic and typically shiny colors and Italy. She moved to Washington DC in one can still enjoy in her latest paintings.She 1999 where she opened an art studio. Her moved to Cordoba Province and finished her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions Art studies at the State School of Fine Arts Dr. in Argentina and the United States. She Figueroa Alcorta.She then taught pottery, recently had exhibitions at the sculpture and painting at privates and public Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), institutions and participated in several the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, D.C. exhibitions in her home country. Later, she and the Borges Cultural Center in Buenos settled with her husband and kids in Anisacate, Aires, Argentina. She presently teaches art in a very small village in the hills where organic her studio and works as a Curatorial Assistant at shapes and shadow subtleties are at hand. the World Bank Art Program. Here she found that her imagination was bound to sensitive observation of ordinary, repetitive things.In her works, she plays with organic shapes and turns them into a question mark. Nothing is quiet in her work; no absolutes affirmatives are allowed. The observer is observed at one and the same time. She wants viewers of her art to explore deeper, get there, and cope with socio cultural issues. 06 07 BRAZIL Flavia Monteiro Lara Oliveira BRAZIL FLAVIA LIMA DO REGO MONTEIRO was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1965. She earned B.A. degrees in Art Education and Social Communication and completed postgraduate work in Art Therapy. She has worked as an Art Educator and developed educational programs at Colégio Pedro II since 1986. untitled Flavia moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and has studied at UCLA. She has shown her work in collective and individual exhibitions in Brazil and the USA. About her paintings: "Texture captures the human experience of the passage of time and memory. When I paint, new layers are applied to cover some but not all aspects of those underneath. Scratching through layers and repeating the process YUXTAPOSE 4 again and again creates a mix of the old and Size: 48” X 48” new. I am always surprised, as I find Acrylic on Canvas Date: 2007 unexpected combinations of colors working [email protected] with and against each other." Born in 1974 in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, as an Art Director in San Francisco and Los in particular Niemeyer’s constructivist architec- UNTITLED LARA OLIVEIRA grew up in Brasilia and Angeles before returning to the DC area tural style of the Planalto Central Brasileiro. Size: 60”x40” moved to the US in 1989. In 1994 she moved where she completed her MFA at George Lara’s work has been exhibited in DC and Oil and Ink on Canvas to Switzerland to pursue her education in art Mason University in Multimedia Art. Her Virginia. She is currently an Art Director [email protected] and design at the Art Center College of Design work deals with exploring the visual dynamics working in the Midwest and she continues to www.laraoliveira.com (EUROPE). She acquired a BFA in Communi- between natural versus urban landscapes, in create works in paintings and drawings as well cation Design in 1997 at the Art Center which natural areas clash with the geometric in the digital medium. College of Design in California. Lara worked architecture of the mid-late twentieth century, 08 yuxtapose 4 09 COLOMBIA Juliana Moncayo Sair Garcia COLOMBIA TAKE OFF SAIR GARCIA graduated in Applied Arts in MOVILIZACIÓN 2001 at the Universidad Nacional in Bogota. Size: 40” x 20” (unframed) Size: 47” X 47” He has participated in several group Acrylic on Canvas take off movilización Oil on Canvas Montreal exhibitions that have taken him around the Date: 2006 Date: 2007 world to France, Mexico, Rumania, Greece, and Hungary and several individual exhibitions in Israel, Germany and Colombia. Sair has won several distinctions during his career as an artist which include the Phillips price for young artists and the IXth price that the banco Ganadero of Colombia offers yearly. JULIANA MONCAYO, is a Colombian artist in areas like sewing, cinema, and mixed media who works and lives in Montreal, Canada. She painting. She has participated in several group obtained her BFA in 2001 from the Universi- exhibitions in Montreal and Bogota, and in dad Javeriana in Bogota and since graduating 2007 had her first solo exhibition at the has taken multiple courses related to her art National Archives Building in Bogota.
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