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“P<\/SPAN>royectos\u201d by David P\u00e9rez, \u201cProceso\u201d by Fausto Ortiz, and \u201cRe-Vuelta\u201d by Raquel Paiewonsky, will be on exhibit until February 2009 <\/P> …the three shows will reunite a body of work with a renewed spirit of medium and form, notable creativity and a refined sensitivity. <\/P> The Ministry of Culture plans to bid farewell to 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) with three important exhibitions by three well-known Dominican artists. <\/P> The opening, scheduled for Friday December 12 at 7:00 p.m., will display the work of Fausto Ortiz, David P\u00e9rez and Raquel Paiewonsky under the title \u201cProceso\u201d, \u201cProyecto\u201d and \u201cRe-Vuelta.\u201d Each one of them will show a selection of their work which is done in various mediums, representing various genre including painting, installation, video, photography and performance. <\/P> According to the Museum Director, Mar\u00eda Elena Ditr\u00e9n, the three shows will reunite a body of work with a renewed spirit of medium and form, notable creativity and a refined sensitivity. <\/P> The show is part of the Modern Art Museum\u00b4s support for young talented artists who, with their work, are promoting a process of aesthetic renewal of contemporary art in the Dominican Republic. <\/P> In \u201cProceso,\u201d Fausto Ortiz is presenting an overview of his photographs from when he began in 1998 until today. The exhibition is made up of some forty photographs on paper, in black and white and some small and medium pictures in color. <\/P> Ortiz, from Santiago de los Caballeros, graduated with a degree in architecture in 1993 and began to take pictures in 1998 after having participated in a course given by the Santiago Photography Group (GRUFOS), where he met a group of experienced photographers. <\/P> His most recent shows include: \u201cInside and Out\u201d The Cultural Center of The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Washington, USA, (2008). \u201c30th International Photo Festival Knokke-Heist\u201d, Belgium, (2008). \u201cDeidades Ajenas\u201d, Dominican American Cultural Institute of Santiago D.R. (2007). \u201cFACE Off\u201d Casa Dominicana, Patterson New Jersey, USA, (2006). He was the Dominican representative, along with Gerard Ellis, in the most recent version of the Biennial in Cuenca, Ecuador. <\/P> Raquel Paiewonsky is showing her installations, photographs and paintings in her presentation of \u201cRe-Vuelta.\u201d Raquel Paiewonsky was born in Puerto Plata but lives and Works in Santo Domingo. In 1991, she graduated from the School of Design in Altos de Chav\u00f3n in La Romana. She had her first individual show in 1992 in the Nouveau Art Gallery. <\/P> She went on to study at Parsons School of Design in New York City where she established herself and lived for ten years. Over the years, Raquel has explored painting, sculpture, installation and photography and in many cases, has combined more than one of them. Whole Being (Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Miami, Fl.- 2006), Vestial (Centre Martiniquais d`action culturelle Martiquais-2004) and Vestial (Chapel of our Lady of the Remedios\/IV Biennial of the Caribbean. Santo Domingo-2001) are several of Raquels\u00b4s individual shows. <\/P> She has participated in the following group shows: Infite Island \u2013 Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2007). Latin American Points of View-Daros Latin American Collection, Bochum Museum, Germany (2007). The Game of Difference. The second-last photograph and video in Santo Domingo, CIRCA 07. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico. <\/P> She also showed in \u201cAway Femmes,\u201d a Diaspora Creativity and Intercultural Dialogue project. UNESCO, Paris, France (2007) and Art Americas, Miami Beach Convention Center, Booth Gallery, Lyle O. Reitzel, Miami Fl. (2007). Among the prizes she has received is the Grand Prize of the E. Le\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez Contest, in its last two editions. <\/P> \u201cProyectos\u201d by David P\u00e9rez, sponsored by Arte-Estudio, touches on video, photography, drawing and performance. He is showing three pieces: \u201cThe Left Side of the Track (Al tramo izquierdo),\u201d a performance video done in \u201cThe Performance Route;\u201d a drawing installation of \u201cIntermittent Border Line\u201d and photographs of \u201cTangential Point.\u201d The latter is a performance to be done on the day the show opens at the Modern Art Museum. <\/P> \u201cAl tramo izquierdo\u201d is an action video document done in \u201cThe Performance Route,\u201d in which a bus from the OMSA is full of Haitians sitting on the right-hand side of the bus while Dominicans fill the left-hand side. <\/P> The \u201cIntermittent Border Line\u201d is a geographical contact drawing of Haiti and the Dominican Republic where the East-West limit is only one single point and the \u201cTangential Point\u201d is a performance that shows a metaphor shared by the inhabitants of the island that form part of the united structures in a common place where one has his\/her needs and different interests but always on the same platform. <\/P> These exhibitions will be open until February 22, 2009 in the Museum of Modern Art of the Dominican Republic. The Museum is located on Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a Avenue, at the Juan Pablo Duarte Culture Plaza from Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. <\/P>
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