{"id":2765,"date":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2009-02-19T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T02:17:59","slug":"noti1402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti1402\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Footprint of the Caribbean\u201d Project Gets Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"



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T<\/EM><\/SPAN>he Footprint of the Caribbean<\/EM> is a project that seeks to underscore the presence of the Catalonians in the American adventure between the 18th and 20th centuries. It also looks at the interchange of influences that were generated in both countries and that went in both directions between Catalonia and the Caribbean. <\/P>
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The Footprint of the Caribbean is a project that seeks to underscore the presence of the Catalonians in the American adventure between the 18th and 20th centuries.<\/P>
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The project looks at a very significant period and includes the work of important personalities such as Pau Casals in Puerto Rico; Joseph Gausachs, born in Barcelona and considered one of the great masters of Dominican art; Juan Bosch, President of the Dominican Republic in 1963, a celebrated literary and political figure (the centennial of his birth will be celebrated in 2009); Wifredo Garc\u00eda, from Barcelona, a promoter of Dominican photographer, and Emilio Bacard\u00ed, patriot, intellectual and patron of Cuban culture.
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The biennale cultural program was inaugurated on February 19 at the opening of the Wifredo Garc\u00eda: Peculiar Obsessions (February 19 to Mayo 24 in the Leon Center). Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez Peque\u00f1o, Manager of Cultural Services at the Leon Center, emphasized that the exhibition on Wilfredo Garc\u00eda is an ideal event to inaugurate the program, the first in the Caribbean which will later move to Barcelona. Mr. Fern\u00e1ndez Peque\u00f1o added that \u201cthis is the most complete exhibition of Garcia\u2019s artwork that has been mounted ever and it is a result of research of the artist\u2019s archives which were found deposited in the Leon Center.\u201d In 2010, The Footprint of the Caribbean along with Wifredo Garc\u00eda: Peculiar Obsessions will be in Barcelona, a place where, paradoxically, Garc\u00eda has never had a show while he was an active artist.
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Wifredo Garc\u00eda and The Footprint of the Caribbean<\/STRONG>
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For more than a year, the Leon Center developed a series of joint activities to pay homage to Wifredo Garc\u00eda, who died in 1988. The first activity was the processing, cataloging and evaluating his body of work which the Garc\u00eda family had temporarily loaned to the Leon Center with the agreement to renew the loan. From this contact came many important conversations about the life and work of Wifredo Garc\u00eda.
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All of this effort has culminated in the inauguration of the exhibition Wifredo Garc\u00eda: Peculiar Obsessions which, with 191 photographs, offers the widest sampling of his work ever seen up to this point. The principle themes, stylistic features, ideological concerns, aesthetics, obsessions and quests that made Wifredo Garc\u00eda one of the best Dominican photographers of all time are represented in this exhibition. Garc\u00eda\u2019s work as an artist and a manager changed the course of photography in the Dominican Republic.
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But, there is more: the opening of the exhibition marks the beginning of The Footprint of the Caribbean program, coordinated by the Leon Center, the Casa America of Catalonia and the Ramon Llull Institute. The program seeks to examine the various types of interchange that has taken place between Catalonia and the Caribbean region. As part of this program, the Wifredo Garc\u00eda: Peculiar Obsessions exhibition will be shown starting in January 2010 in Barcelona.
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Wilfredo Garc\u00eda (1935-1988)
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Loan from the Photography House of Wifredo Garc\u00eda in Santo Domingo at the Centro Le\u00f3n
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Gelatin silver process on paper
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Loan from the Photography House of Wifredo Garc\u00eda in Santo Domingo at the Centro Le\u00f3n
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Gelatin silver process on paper painted with colored ink.
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Loan from the Photography House of Wifredo Garc\u00eda in Santo Domingo at the Centro Le\u00f3n
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