Archives for February 2009

Contemporary Art Lecture: Marcos Ramirez (ERRE): “El arte y sus motivos” (Work and its motivations)

Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7 – 10 pm, at the Cuale Cultural Center Auditorium.
In English & en Español

Marcos Ramirez ERRE was born in 1961 in Tijuana, Baja California Mexico. He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. Erre immigrated to the United States where he worked for seventeen years in the construction industry as a carpenter.

In 1989, he became active in the field of visual arts, since then he has participated in different individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, Russia, Puerto Rico, France, Spain, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and has participated in major exhibitions, such as InSite94; InSite97; the VI and VII Havana Biennials; the 2000 Whitney Biennial; the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial; Made in California; Mexico Illuminated; From Baja to Vancouver, and Politica de la Diferencia, Arte Iberoamericano de fin de siglo; Human/Nature, the 2007 Sao Paulo /Valencia Biennial; the California Biennial 08; and the second Moscow Biennial among others. In 2007 received a USA Artist Fellowship, and is currently developing a program for Estacion Tijuana, a non-profit alternative space at the San Diego-Tijuana border with a focus in Art, Architecture, Urbanism and Popular Culture. Erre will have a the first one-person exhibition at El Cubo, a new museum in Tijuana in 2009.

LOS ARTISTAS DEL BARIO ART EXHIBITION

Come and meet the new generation of 4 Puerto Vallarta boys who will be showing their works of art at a one-night exhibition and cocktail reception on Friday, February 27th at Espacio de Angeles, Lazaro Cardenas 452, Colonia Emiliano Zapata (223-9832) from 6 pm to 9 pm. This event is being held in the old Machis Restaurant location at the corner of Lazaro Cardenas and Jacarandas.

These very young artists, Alessandro Luthi, Ernesto Gispert, Milan Mansfield and Sebastian Loza, ranging in ages from 11 to 13 years old, have dedicated themselves to painting for the past three years in the Workshop of Maestro Oscar Montiel. It´s an extraordinary moment in any life to find a calling at such a young age!

What´s more extraordinary is their desire to create a scholarship fund for a less fortunate child by donating 15% of the proceeds from the sale of their paintings and they have chosen R.I.S.E. (Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza) in the hopes that another young artist will have the opportunity to be nurtured in the craft of art as well. Maestro Montiel will match the proceeds raised.

Instead of kicking back with a video game after school, these exceptional young boys made their way to Montiel´s workshop, mixed a palette, found a brush and set to work on their latest creations from lyrical animals to impressionistic still life’s to natural realism landscapes, offering something to every art lover.

Not only is the art fantastic, meeting these young boys will be a real treat.