{"id":7013,"date":"2014-07-17T01:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2014-07-17T01:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:36:01","slug":"noti5521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5521\/","title":{"rendered":"Maestro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Receives the 2013 Visual Arts Award"},"content":{"rendered":"



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Maestro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Receives the 2013 Visual Arts Award<\/STRONG>
Santo Domingo, July 16th, 2014<\/P>
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T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Culture (MINC) awarded painter Ram\u00f3n Oviedo the National Award of Visual Arts corresponding to the year 2013, for the excellence of his contributions in revitalizing the development of national art and for his professional career.<\/P>
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Minister Rodr\u00edguez explained that \u201cthis award has been unanimously granted by the jury in recognition to Oviedo\u2019s professional career. The truth is that it has made me very happy because it is the most important recognition that the State awards, …<\/P>
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The event was lead by the Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, who presented the award and a cash prize of 500 thousand pesos. The ceremony took place in Oviedo\u2019s home due to his health conditions.<\/P>
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Minister Rodr\u00edguez explained that \u201cthis award has been unanimously granted by the jury in recognition to Oviedo\u2019s professional career. The truth is that it has made me very happy because it is the most important recognition that the State awards, to Oviedo on this occasion, one of the most important painters of contemporary visual arts, and who has made innumerable contributions to the Dominican national art.\u201d<\/P>
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Upon receiving the 2013 National Award of Visual Arts, Ram\u00f3n Oviedo thanked the Minister of Culture and the jury for the award saying that he received it for his tenacious work, since, of his 90 years of life, he had spent his past 85 working in different areas until he decided one day to dedicate himself to what he really loved, visual arts.<\/P>
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Deputy Ministers Carlos Santos (Institutional Development) and Tommy Garc\u00eda (Creativity and Popular Participation) attended the event. Additionally, Maestro Oviedo\u2019s children Omar, Ra\u00fal, Ram\u00f3n and Aracelis, accompanied by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were also present during the ceremony.<\/P>
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This is the highest acknowledgement that the Dominican State grants in the area of visual arts, and it was given to Oviedo for this constant commitment to visual creation and for creating national masterpieces.<\/P>
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Oviedo\u2019s painting production is composed of a repertoire of images that trace the arduous, extensive, and fruitful persistence of an artistic personality with an exquisite poetic sensibility.<\/P>
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The Selecting Committee emphasized that Oviedo\u2019s entire work is characterized by an intense reflection about the human condition, the existential contradictions, and the complex relationships between artistic practice, socio-cultural space, and nature.<\/P>
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In addition to the Minister, the jury was also formed by Mar\u00eda Elena Ditr\u00e9n, Director of the Museum of Modern Art; Marianne de Tolentino, Director of the Gallery of Fine Arts; Myrna Guerrero, Director of the Bellapart Museum; and Carlos Acero, President of the Dominican Art Critic Association (ADCA).<\/P>
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Clinton Samuel L\u00f3pez Torres, resident of the Dominican School of Fine Arts; Mildred Canahuate, President of the Art Galleries Association of the Dominican Republic; and, Danilo de los Santos, Independent Cultural Administrator, were also part of the jury.<\/P>
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Similarly, the Posthumous National Award of Visual Arts will be given to Guillo P\u00e9rez<\/STRONG>, one of the greatest examples of Earth\u2019s color and sensation in Dominican modern painting, for his creations of aesthetic and visual symbols that transcend the essential identity values of being Dominican.<\/P>
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Furthermore, Soucy Pellerano<\/STRONG> was also recognized for the vitality and diversity of her experimental pieces ranging from paintings, sculptures and performance, as well as for being a pioneer of kinetic art and teacher to several generations in the Dominican Republic.<\/P>
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The National Award of Visual Arts of the Dominican Republic is the highest award that the State grants to visual artists for their trajectory and contributions to the development of national art. This important award was established by Decree 278-93 on October 12, 1993, and was later repealed by Decree 597-10 on October 23, 2010.<\/P>
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Professor Ram\u00f3n Oviedo receiving the 2013 National Award of Visual Arts<\/P>
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The Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, presenting the 2013 National Award of Visual Arts to Maestro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo<\/P>
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The Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez next to Maesro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo. They are accompanied by the Ministry of Culture and members of the Selecting Committee<\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maestro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Receives the 2013 Visual Arts AwardSanto Domingo, July 16th, 2014 The Ministry of Culture (MINC) awarded painter Ram\u00f3n Oviedo the National Award of Visual Arts corresponding to the year 2013, for the excellence of his contributions in revitalizing the development of national art and for his professional career. Minister Rodr\u00edguez explained that … Continue reading “Maestro Ram\u00f3n Oviedo Receives the 2013 Visual Arts Award”<\/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-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013"}],"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=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}