{"id":7215,"date":"2015-03-11T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T05:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:38:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T05:38:56","slug":"noti5721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5721\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrimonio Cultural DGA Foundation Opens Exhibition of Dominican Artists at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"



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Patrimonio Cultural DGA Foundation Opens Exhibition of Dominican Artists at the UN<\/STRONG>
Santo Domingo, March 11th, 2015<\/P>
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O<\/SPAN>n the occasion of the celebration of the 171 anniversary of the Dominican Independence, the Cultural Heritage Foundation, a unit of the Directorate General of Customs of the Dominican Republic, formally opened an exhibition of some 30 works by Dominican artists at the United Nations Organization (UN) headquarters in New York.<\/P>
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The opening ceremony of the exhibition “Modernity and contemporaneity in Dominican Art: Works from the Directorate General of Customs\u2019 Collection” was chaired by Fernando Fern\u00e1ndez, Director General of Customs; Pedro Verg\u00e9s, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Head of the Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS) and President of the Cultural Heritage DGA Foundation; Eduardo Selman, Consul General of the Dominican Republic in New York; and, Francisco Cortorreal, Ambassador to the UN.<\/P>
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This exhibition, which covers the history of Dominican art from the modern to the contemporary, includes artists such as Antonio Guadalupe, Clara Ledesma, Danilo de los Santos, Dario Suro, Domingo Liz, Eugenio Fern\u00e1ndez Granell, Fernando Pe\u00f1a Defill\u00f3, Fernando Varela, Gilberto Hern\u00e1ndez Ortega, Iv\u00e1n Tobar, Jaime Colson, Jorge Pineda and Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Cordero.<\/P>
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Also, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez Conde, Jos\u00e9 Rinc\u00f3n Mora, Josep Gausachs, Julio Valdez, Manuel Montilla, Raquel Paiewonsky, Ram\u00f3n Oviedo, Paul Giudicelli, Radham\u00e9s Mej\u00eda, Scherezade Garc\u00eda, Yoryi Morel and In\u00e9s Tolentino.<\/P>
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The traveling exhibition that the Dominican Directorate General of Customs has been promoting beyond its borders conveys the greatest interest in bringing a valuable representation of the Dominican plastic arts to the international community.<\/P>
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“Modernity and contemporaneity in Dominican Art: Works from the Directorate General of Customs\u2019 Collection” began at the AMA | the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, as an initiative of the Cultural Heritage DGA Foundation and the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the OAS. <\/P>
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