Escaping with the Landscape

Exposición / Montenegro Art Projects - Casa MAP - Sandra Montenegro Contemporary Art - Miami / . / Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
13 may de 2012 - 30 jun de 2012

Inauguración:
13 may de 2012

Organizada por:
Montenegro Art Projects - Casa MAP - Sandra Montenegro Contemporary Art

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Artistas: Miler Lagos, Angelica Teuta, Adriana Salazar, Alexandra McCormick, Saul Sanchez, Rodrigo Echeverri, Luisa Roa y Lia Garcia (Bogotá, Colombia); Rafael Domenech y Juan Carlos Zaldivar (Miami, EE.UU.); Elizabet Cerviño, Marianela Orozco, Ernesto Javier Fernandez, Jose Manuel Mesias, Luis Enrique Lopez, Rafael Villares, Yornel Martinez, Ernesto Garcia, Ernesto Quintana, Adonis Flores y Osy Milian (La Habana, Cuba). Exposición paralela a la 11ª Bienal de La Habana.

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'In Cuba, the verb to escape has a meaning that is related to surviving from something that is shady, illegitimate, abnormal. Escaping with the landscape -in the most cynical sense- could be interpreted as an easy way of extracting a profit or a benefit and at the same time it could be construed as escaping; running away with it, forming an ironic wordplay which ultimately can be understood as mankind escaping from itself into another nature invented by it.

 

In this sense, the title becomes a trap, since the contemporary visualization of the exhibit demonstrates that landscapes can be created in accordance - or not - with the genre, as it is traditionally understood. In all cases, it is ultimately about the empathy and commitment of the creators with the environment in an almost pantheistic manner.' Explains the exhibition curator, Elvia Rosa Castro.

 

Escaping with the landscape includes installations, videos, paintings, frescoes and light boxes. In this sense it is a versatile, fresh and visually appealing exhibit. It also has a strong somatic content, based on gesture and sensuality.

 

Exhibiting artists include: Bogota based, Miler Lagos, Angelica Teuta, Adriana Salazar, Alexandra McCormick, Saul Sanchez, Rodrigo Echeverri, Luisa Roa, and Lia Garcia; Miami based, Rafael Domenech and Juan Carlos Zaldivar; and, Havana based, Elizabet Cerviño, Marianela Orozco, Ernesto Javier Fernandez, Jose Manuel Mesias, Luis Enrique Lopez, Rafael Villares, Yornel Martinez, Ernesto Garcia, Ernesto Quintana, Adonis Flores and Osy Milian.

 

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