The First Exhibit of Stealth Art in the Country “Los cilindros del arte furtivo,” by Thimo Pimentel, Opens

The First Exhibit of Stealth Art in the Country “Los cilindros del arte furtivo,” by Thimo Pimentel, Opens
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, January 11, 2013

The Imagen 83 Foundation, the Ignery Art and Archeology Foundation and the Centro de la Imagen opened”Los cilindros del arte furtivo,” the first exhibit of Stealth Art in the country, by visual artist Thimo Pimentel. The opening cocktail took place at the Centro de la Imagen, located at calle Arzobispo Meriño esq. Vicente Celestino in the Colonial City.

This is an event that has taken place for the first time in the country. This collection includes performance, ceramic sculpture, graffiti, photography, silkscreens, barrografías, the use of GPS, potter’s wheel, and video, all of these wrapped around an activity that is somewhat risky if not plainly dangerous.

Art critic and artistic director of the Centro de la Imagen,Mr. Carlos Acero Ruiz,was the curator of the exhibit.

This is an event that has taken place for the first time in the country. This collection includes performance, ceramic sculpture, graffiti, photography, silkscreens, barrografías, the use of GPS, potter’s wheel, and video, all of these wrapped around an activity that is somewhat risky if not plainly dangerous.

50 high temperature ceramic cylinders decorated with prints, each one different from the others, and eachindividually numbered and signed by the artist, were placed at landmarksites throughout the Dominican capital, ranging from a century-oldcemetery to the altar of the homeland. These works of art were positioned in risky if not dangerous places. People who found the objects and used their ingenuity to retrieve them could keep them. Then they were asked to lend them for the exhibit.

This event took place to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Catedral Primada de las Américas (the oldest cathedral in the Americas). It is also a teaching tool that will take them from the Kilometer Zero landmark, where the most exceptional art work, “El Clavo de la Primada”(recalling the Nigrish Nail, which marked the start of construction work of the great palaces centuries BC in Gudea) was placed, up to the most visited places in Santo Domingo, America’s oldest city.

The exhibit will be available at the Centro de la Imagen until Tuesday, January 15, 2013, the date when the catalog will be released.

Thimo Pimentel is a Dominican graphic artist, medical doctor, photographer, educator, art critic and cultural promoter. He was a member of the Grupo Proyecta (1968-1971). He is an artist who is interested in researching the potential of various materials, and has worked with stones, plastic, glass, textiles, metals and ceramics. His works have been displayed in museums and private residences in and outside the country. He has organized over thirty solo exhibits and has participated in numerous group exhibits.He studied at the La Moncloa School of Ceramics in Madrid, Spain (1986-1990) and is the creator of the International Ceramic Tile Triennial (elit-tile), based in Santo Domingo. He chairs the Igneri Art and Archaeology Foundationand is the founder of the Museum of Contemporary Ceramics (MCC).

He has been recognized both nationally and internationally. He won First Prize for painting at the First Biennial organized by the Alliance Française (1964); the Mask Award, for the best drawings exhibition during the year 1966; Third Prize of Drawing at the III Eduardo Leon Jimenez Art Contest(1967); the Rafael FaxasAward, Freestyle category, at the XIV National Visual Arts Biennial (1979); Prize at the International Orton Competition (1999), and First Prize at the Ceramic TileBiennale, Argentina (2003).

He has served as a judge at ceramic and photographic competitions and has been a special guest at the Raku Symposia and ceramic art in Havana and Camaguey, Cuba.

Works


Thimo Pimentel


Irasema Jiminian, Thimo Pimentel, Mayra Johnson, Carlos Acero