{"id":3831,"date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T03:48:18","slug":"noti2442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti2442\/","title":{"rendered":"International Book Fair: Homage to Guillo P\u00e9rez Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"



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T<\/SPAN>he XIII International Book Fair of Santo Domingo was inaugurated with a painting exhibition titled \u201cHomage to Master Guillo Per\u00e9z,\u201d<\/EM> on the first floor of the Museum of Modern Art, located in the Culture Plaza. <\/P>
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P\u00e9rez expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of his work over the years and for the distinction he received at this moment. He confessed that \u201cif God gives me more time, I will continue creating art.\u201d<\/P>
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The exhibition is showing 55 paintings of the celebrated Dominican painter under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Modern Art, the Popular Bank and the General Management of the Book Fair. <\/SPAN><\/P>
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Mar\u00eda Elena Ditr\u00e9n, Director of the Museum, spoke to those present about the history and contributions made by the well-known Dominican painter for which he is deserving of local as well as international recognition. <\/SPAN><\/P>
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\u201cGuillo P\u00e9rez has always brought honor to the name of the Dominican Republic, putting on more than a hundred exhibitions around the world; it is for this reason that today he carries the title of Master of Dominican Painting,\u201d according to the Office of Communication and Audiovisuals of the Ministry of Culture. <\/SPAN><\/P>
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Amable L\u00f3pez Mel\u00e9ndez, recognized art critic and curator of this show, said \u201cin the huge body of Guillo P\u00e9rez\u2019s work, we have access to an emblematic landscape of light with the intense colors of sugarcane plantations, palm groves and rice fields; the roosters, oxen, carts, chimneys, sugarcane mills, twilight, marinas, sudden flare-ups and transparent atmosphere. In his recent work, he is reborn, he reaffirms his mastery and his reputation as one of the miracle workers of color and material in Caribbean painting of the last half century.\u201d    <\/SPAN><\/P>
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P\u00e9rez expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of his work over the years and for the distinction he received at this moment. He confessed that \u201cif God gives me more time, I will continue creating art.\u201d<\/SPAN><\/P>
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Guillo P\u00e9rez was born in Moca in 1926. He studied painting and graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Los Caballeros in 1950. He prefers to work in oil on canvas using a spatula to lay the paint thickly onto the canvas. His style is abstract expressionism and among other topics in his paintings, he paints colonial monuments (from Jerusalem), marinas, figures, landscapes, flowers, banana leaves and roosters.  <\/SPAN><\/P>
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He is currently working in a more structured style, organizing recognizable symbols on the canvas. His themes include monuments (from Jerusalem), marinas, figures, landscapes, flowers, banana leaves and roosters.  He has shown his work in thirty individual exhibitions in the Dominican Republic and abroad and has participated in international group shows. His theme of sugarcane mills (carts, oxen and farmhouses) allow for contemplative and poetic visuals of impressive ambient light. <\/SPAN><\/P>
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The exhibition, \u201cHomage to Guillo P\u00e9rez\u201d will be open to the public until July 31 in the Museum of Modern Art from Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and throughout the duration of the International Book Fair from 9:00 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/SPAN><\/P>
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Mar\u00eda Elena Ditr\u00e9n, Guillo P\u00e9rez, Jeanne Marion Landais, Jorge Esteves and Enriquillo Amiama, at the inaugural act of the \u201cHomage to Guillo P\u00e9rez\u201d exhibition. <\/SPAN>.<\/SPAN><\/A><\/TD>
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International Book Fair: Homage to Guillo P\u00e9rez Exhibition The XIII International Book Fair of Santo Domingo was inaugurated with a painting exhibition titled \u201cHomage to Master Guillo Per\u00e9z,\u201d on the first floor of the Museum of Modern Art, located in the Culture Plaza. P\u00e9rez expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of his work over … Continue reading “International Book Fair: Homage to Guillo P\u00e9rez Exhibition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}