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Dominican Republic., January 24, 2014 <\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 35px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: chocolate; LETTER-SPACING: -6px; LINE-HEIGHT: 80%\">T<\/SPAN>he Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center, a private and nonprofit institution, will present in its facilities the sculptural exhibition \u201cFlotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed,\u201d a retrospective by laureate recycling sculptor Genaro Reyes, Cayuco.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The opening ceremony and ribbon cutting of the exhibition will take place in the Main Exhibit Hall of the Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 at 6:00 pm, in the presence of prominent local and national art scene personalities, during a night of celebration of the art by this sculptor, who is native of Miches, El Seibo province.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This information was confirmed by Ms. Julia Castillo, Director of the Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center, who opened this major exhibition underscoring that the people of Ban\u00ed had never rejoiced before the stature of such a meritorious and renowned artist of the stature of Cayuco. \u201cThe Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center offers the people of Ban\u00ed the opportunity to enjoy sacred art, the plausibility of the unknown, and the beauty of Dominican popular religion, with winning pieces that have won important national recognition and which reinforce the perennial history of Cayuco&#8217;s Dominican sculptural art,\u201d said the Director of the Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The sculptural exhibition \u201cFlotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed\u201d is a retrospective by sculptor Genaro Reyes, who displays craftwork, furniture, art-artifact, altarpieces, ceramics and metal objects, smeltings, carvings, etc&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It will display three major works which have won awards in national art competitions, one of them is \u201cEl Motoconcho,\u201d assembled welding, Biennial National Award (1996), \u201cLa Cuabera,\u201d a wooden altarpiece, National Biennial Acquisition Award (1998), and the work \u201cIndocumentados (Undocumented),\u201d metal boat, winner of the E. Le\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nes Award (2000) in the genre sculpture. Pieces from a private collection will also be displayed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>On the retrospective, sculptor Genaro Reyes \u201cCayuco\u201d says \u201ceach carved log has been thrown up by the sea, carried by the rivers, broken by the storms; they are here and there as a reverent offering. We are sure that the Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center will be the perfect stage for the exhibition of this sacred art that brings us to celebrate our Lady of La Altagracia, patron saint of the Dominican people.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The exhibition is the result of an interagency reach out effort between the Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center and the Miches Cultural Center, a community institution dedicated to the rescue of the cultural traditions of that population, and which the artist coordinates. As part of this interagency reach out and collaboration agreement, introductory woodcarving workshops will be held as well as intercultural artistic events, talks, discussions, and other activities.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>About Genaro Reyes, Cayuco<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>He has made solo and group exhibitions, among which are: \u201cLa Casa de Cayuco (Cayuco&#8217;s House),\u201d Spanish Cultural Center, 1999; \u201cMemorias de un N\u00e1ufrago (Memories of a Castaway),\u201d El Espacio Gallery, 2000; \u201cArqueolog\u00eda Contempor\u00e1nea (Contemporary Archaeology),\u201d Museum of the Dominican Man, 2001; \u201cHallazgos (Findings),\u201d Aliance Fran\u00e7aise, 2002; \u201cDe Miches a Punta Cana (From Miches to Punta Cana),\u201d Punta Cana Art Gallery, 2007; \u201cCayuco y sus alumnos (Cayuco and his students),\u201d Aliance Fran\u00e7aise, 2010; \u201cLa Flor del Cayuco (Cayuco\u2019s Flower),\u201d Altos de Chav\u00f3n main gallery, 2011; and, at the Biennial of Visual Arts in 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013. Among his international exhibitions are presentations in countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curacao, Cuba, France, Spain, Germany, and Canada.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"WIDTH: 500px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px\"><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left\" border=0 alt=\"CCP Presents Artist Genaro Reyes\u2019 Sculptural Exhibition ''Flotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed''\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5304_1.jpg\" width=500> <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"WIDTH: 500px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px\"><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left\" border=0 alt=\"CCP Presents Artist Genaro Reyes\u2019 Sculptural Exhibition ''Flotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed''\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5304_2.jpg\" width=500> <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"WIDTH: 500px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px\"><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left\" border=0 alt=\"CCP Presents Artist Genaro Reyes\u2019 Sculptural Exhibition ''Flotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed''\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5304_3.jpg\" width=500> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCP Presents Artist Genaro Reyes\u2019 Sculptural Exhibition &#8221;Flotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed&#8221;Escondido, Ban\u00ed, Peravia province. Dominican Republic., January 24, 2014 The Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center, a private and nonprofit institution, will present in its facilities the sculptural exhibition \u201cFlotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed,\u201d a retrospective by laureate recycling sculptor Genaro Reyes, Cayuco. The opening ceremony and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5304\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CCP Presents Artist Genaro Reyes\u2019 Sculptural Exhibition &#8221;Flotaaltagracia de Miches a Ban\u00ed&#8221;&#8221;<\/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-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794"}],"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=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}