Ottawa, Canada, February 26, 2020. \u2013 The Dominican Embassy in Canada, along with the Cultural Foundation of the Dominican Customs Office and the Ministry of Tourism, opened the exhibit \u201cModern and Contemporary Dominican Art\u201d in Ottawa\u2019s City Hall.
\nThe Dominican Tourism Office in Montreal also contributed to the successful exhibit.
\nThe exhibit\u2019s catalog brings a message from Enrique Ram\u00edrez Paniagua, the Dominican Customs Office Director General, where he highlights that the \u201c\u2026exhibit is a summary of [Dominican] culture, a product of the various cultural groups that founded our society, from the native Tainos, Ciguayos and Caribs, and later with the Spaniards, with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.\u201d
\nDirector Ram\u00edrez Paniagua explained that the exhibit reflects the vision and sentiments of distinguished Dominican plastic artists. He recognized that this initiative began under the Administration of past Director General, Miguel Cocco Guerrero, a great supporter of local artists.
\nThe Dominican Ambassador in Canada, Pedro Verg\u00e9s Ciman, delivered the exhibit\u2019s opening remarks where he highlighted the various activities that have been scheduled to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic and trade relations between both nations. Ambassador Verg\u00e9s also stated that the exhibit is \u201c\u2026the highest expression of what we have been able to accomplish in the visual arts sector.\u201d He also thanked the Customs Office, specifically in the person of Director Enrique Ram\u00edrez Paniagua, as well as the members of the Foundation for choosing Canada to exhibit the masterpieces.
\nInvited guests at the exhibit\u2019s opening ceremony included Canadian senators Jane Cordy, Ren\u00e9 Cormier and Marie-Fran\u00e7oise; the director of the Ottawa Art Gallery, Alexandra Balzak; Mark O\u2019Neill and Kay Rictcher, executives of the History and War Museum.
\nAlso present were diplomats from Spain, Belgium, Cameroon, El Salvador, St. Lucia, Cuba, Argentina, Israel, Yemen, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, Austria, Kazakhstan Serbia, Russia, Tanzania, Moldavia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Rumania, Georgia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya and Bosnia-Herzegovina, among others.
\nRepresentatives from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Relations, Ottawa\u2019s City Hall, Carleton University, the Autonomous University of Mexico in Canada, the Dominican Aviation Institute, as well as leaders from the Dominican community in Canada, members of the press and the general public also attended the event.
\nThe exhibit, which remained opened until March, is a successful initiative that has been presented with much success in the Organization of American States in Washington, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, Brussels, Belgium and Havana, Cuba.
\nThe Foundation also sponsors an annual itinerant exhibit in the provinces of the Dominican Republic, so that citizens living in remote areas may become familiar and appreciate these works of arts, produced by the most distinguished Dominican artists.<\/p>\n
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