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Sangre de Cristo Arts Center features the Art and Culture of Mexico
"¡Ay, México!"
The Spring 2007 exhibitions at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center celebrate the
invaluable gifts this region has received from the Mexican culture. Art and
culture in Mexico are regarded as essential to existance. The principles of
Mexican dance, culinary arts, music and visual arts will permeate every square
foot of the Helen T. White Galleries and Buell Children’s Museum over the next
few months with an exhibition called "¡Ay, México!".
White Gallery & King Gallery • Feb. 23 through April 21
"The Legend of Chromes"
Works from the collection of Museo Soumaya de México
Mexican Calendar Legends
Discover over 60 rare oil paintings, chromium prints and articles from the vast
archives of Galas de México. The Legend of Chromes is a traveling exhibition of
paintings featuring Mexican calendar legends organized by Museo Soumaya in
Mexico City. The collection is a picture album of utopian scenes printed between
1930 and 1970 by the publishing house Galas de México depicting nationalism, The
Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and popular culture. Artists include Jorge González
Camarena, Josep Renau, Armando Dreschler and Jesús de al Helguera. The
exhibition consists of two groups. The first group is a repertoire of
illustrations once included in catalogs salespeople offered to the commercial
industry in order to satisfy advertising needs. Their artistic themes included
religious traditions, music and dance, love and women, humor, sports, great
celebrations and Mexican cinema. The second group is a collection of testimonial
graphics displaying the impact that the paintings have made in Mexico and
abroad. Now a part of the Soumaya Museum collection, the works were discovered
in the 1980s and have been exhibited throughout Mexico, the United States,
France and Lebanon.
King Gallery • Feb. 23 through April 2
"¡Viva La Revolución!" Money of the Mexican Revolution
This exhibit is held in cooperation with the American Numismatic Association.
Viva la Revolución is a large traveling exhibit from the association located in
Colorado Springs, CO. This extensive coin collection serves as a history of the
Mexican Revolution of 1910. "¡Viva La Revolución!" provides a new and
interesting approach to the story of the revolution, highlighting a little-known
aspect of this pivotal event in the history of modern Mexico. The decade of
chaos that followed resulted in a story told through the coins and paper money
issued during the rebellion. Always in need of money to pay troops, buy supplies
and set up provisional governments, those orchestrating the battle for change
quickly discovered a simple solution — they made their own.
Hoag Gallery • Feb. 3 through April 28
"Encuentro: A Leo Tanguma Community Sculptural Mural Project"
(Encounter)
Starting in February 2007, the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center’s Hoag Gallery will
become the art studio of Denver muralist Leo Tanguma for six weeks as he paints
a community sculptural mural celebrating Hispanic culture in the United States.
Open to the public, visitors can watch the mural come to life and interact with
Tanguma as he paints every Thursday, Friday and Saturday starting Feb. 3 through
April 28, 2007. Once completed, this sculptural mural will travel through the
community.
Tanguma’s murals consist of references to the Mexican-American civil rights
movement and Mexican history, and his work tends to cross cultural boundaries.
The mural he will be painting for the Arts Center is titled "Encuentro"
(Encounter) in which Tanguma hopes to encourage Latinos to remember and
celebrate their Mexican culture. It features the mythological character La
Llorona, sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman, who is the
ghost of a woman crying for her dead children. The mural is 30 feet wide and 9
feet tall and is made of three separate pieces allowing it to be disassembled
and reassembled in other places in the community, indoors or outdoors, to be
showcased for years to come. Encuentro (Encounter) is underwritten in part by
GCC Rio Grande.
Regional Gallery, 2nd Floor Foyer and 3rd Floor Foyer • Feb. 10 through May 5
"Tradición Mexico"
Discover three galleries of work by Mexican and American artists featuring
Antonio Castro, Luis González Palma, Tatiana Percero, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco
Zuniga and Sergio Garval who each have a style that is true to their heritage,
yet unique from one another. It is the heritage of each artist that makes this
show a beautiful compilation of paintings and photography.
Border painter, inhabitant of two cities (City Juárez, Chihuahua (Mexico), and
El Paso, Texas (U.S.)), Antonio Castro uses painting as an account of the
history of El Paso and City Juárez. The subjects philosophically reflect the
human being as a citizen of the universe.
Being of mixed or "mestizo" background, Luis González Palma’s photography
focuses on the plight of the indigenous Mayas and the mestizo people. Frequently
political in nature, photographs often feature distant gazes and mystical
costumes that objectify and explain the pain of his people.
Tatiana Parcero creates self portrait photography works layered with scientific,
cartographic and pre-Colombian iconographic imagery resulting in metaphorical
explorations of the female body’s role in the course of sexual politics as well
as personal histories.
Rufino Tamayo is considered one of the leading Mexican artists of the 20th
century. Tamayo first gained his reputation in the United States and Europe
before he was acclaimed in his native land. Less interested than Rivera or
Siqueiros in an art of social message, Tamayo concentrated more on the formal
and decorative elements of painting. Strong influences from cubism and fauvism
are apparent in Tamayo’s work, as well as elements from Mexican folklore.
Born in Costa Rica, Francisco Zuniga moved to Mexico in 1936, where his work
increasingly gained wide recognition throughout Latin America, Europe, the
United States and Asia, making Zuniga Mexico’s most internationally collected
artist. His works are included in major museum collections throughout the world.
Sergio Garval belongs to a new generation of Mexican artists. Born in 1968 in
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico his work has a baroque, theatrical feel, always
experimenting with different materials and ways to find expression for his
strong, vivid imagination. His latest work focuses on the grotesque of the human
figure by giving it character and movement by over-emphasizing prospective.
Sculptural works will also be on display in the Tradición Mexico exhibit by
artist Felipe Castenada, courtesy of Nedra Matteucci Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
Join us for a free public reception on Friday, Feb. 23, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Exhibitions and reception are sponsored by St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center.
Admission to the Arts Center is $4 for adults and $3 for children. Members of
the Arts Center receive free admission. The Arts Center is open Tuesday through
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, please call 719-295-7200 or
stop by the Arts Center located at 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., just off of I-25, exit
98b.
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