{"id":11025,"date":"2018-07-26T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2018-07-31T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T05:22:44","slug":"celebran-decimo-aniversario-del-centro-abreu-con-exposicion-poker-face-all-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/celebran-decimo-aniversario-del-centro-abreu-con-exposicion-poker-face-all-in\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCentro Abreu\u201d Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Poker Face\/All In Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>Eastern Santo Domingo, July 26, 2018 \u2013 <\/strong>The \u201cCentro Abreu,\u201d situated in the eastern section of Santo Domingo, will celebrate its 10th<\/sup> anniversary with the exhibit Poker Face\/All In,<\/em> featuring the work of artist Oscar Abreu.\u00a0 It will also feature a cultural program that will include conferences and workshops.<\/p>\n

Beginning Thursday, July 26, Abreu will open his latest and most extensive exhibit to date – Poker\u00a0Face\/All In<\/em> \u2013 featuring 60 works that include paintings, drawings and sculptures.<\/p>\n

Well-known national and international artists, and representatives from the cultural sector, will meet at the Center beginning at 7:00 p.m. One of the Caribbean\u2019s most important gallery owners, Walter Otero from Puerto Rico, has also been invited.\u00a0\u00a0 Otero is included on the list of the top 500 gallery owners of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a true privilege to have with us such a high-caliber personality. \u00a0Especially during the opening of this exhibit, which to a great extent is my contribution to Dominican art, which offers a different and quality-centered content,\u201d explained Abreu.<\/p>\n

The Abreu Center is an ambitious cultural project that began in 2006 through Abreu\u2019s initiative, with the goal of strengthening and supporting local art.<\/p>\n

The exhibit Poker\u00a0Face<\/em>\u00a0brings together an ample collection of Abreu\u2019s art work that has been exhibited in various venues in the United States, especially in New York, where he was issued a special award issued to outstanding citizens by Councilman Ydanis Rodr\u00edguez, as explained by Abreu, and also by Seny Taveras, from Hostos Community College and CUNY in The Heights.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, July 28, at 6:00 p.m., art historian Gamal Michel\u00e9n and art critic Abil Peralta Ag\u00fcero will both speak on Dominican art from different perspectives.<\/p>\n

Both experts will discuss Dominican contemporary art, as well as the challenges faced by Dominican artists at the international level.<\/p>\n

Michel\u00e9n, who will speak on Dominican artists and State policies, is an architect by profession and is originally from the border region province of San Juan de la Maguana.\u00a0 He is also a professor of the history of art, and has been invited as a guest speaker on this and other art-related issues to the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Cuba and Puerto Rico, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Dominican Republic we have had excellent artists, such as Rodr\u00edguez Urdaneta, Garc\u00eda Godoy and Sisito Desangles, as well as a true golden age of art with the arrival to the country of great artists, especially from Spain, such as Gausachs\u201d, explained Michel\u00e9n.\u00a0 He also stated that \u201c\u2026we understand that culture, which naturally flows because it is intrinsically tied to all human groups, must receive the support of the State.\u00a0 This does not mean that the State will control the artistic endeavor, but it should undertake the role of facilitator and sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Michel\u00e9n was Vice Minister of Culture in the year 2000, and is currently president of the Dominican Association of Art Critics. \u00a0Until recently, he was the director of the Guernica Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

Abil Peralta Ag\u00fcero is recognized, both at the national and international levels, as a first-class speaker on the arts.\u00a0 He is a members of the International Association of Art Critics.<\/p>\n

After their presentations there will be a special panel discussion with Puerto Rican gallerist Walter Otero, moderated by the Center\u2019s Curator in Chief, Amable L\u00f3pez Mel\u00e9ndez.<\/p>\n

At 8:00 p.m. that evening Abreu and Puerto Rican artist Carlos Santiago will carry out a joint performance.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Carlos\u00a0Santiago\u00a0won the prestigious Alfonso Arana Master Scholarship which took him to Paris to conclude his superior art studies. He is a graduate of Puerto Rico\u2019s School of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n

Dominican critic Abil Peralta Ag\u00fcero says on artist Santiago that \u201c\u2026his paintings \u2026speak to us of humanism and challenges\u2026of the urgent cohabitation with the animal world, and speaks to us of love as the cohabitation of the spirits and as a playful stage for pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Eastern Santo Domingo, July 26, 2018 \u2013 The \u201cCentro Abreu,\u201d situated in the eastern section of Santo Domingo, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with the exhibit Poker Face\/All In, featuring the work of artist Oscar Abreu.\u00a0 It will also feature a cultural program that will include conferences and workshops. Beginning Thursday, July 26, Abreu will … Continue reading “\u201cCentro Abreu\u201d Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Poker Face\/All In Exhibit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11084,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions\/11084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}