April 9th, 2004
Opening
its new doors to the Coral Gables’ area, the new General Consulate
of El Salvador in Miami, has found the perfect way to intertwine Salvadoran
contemporary arts with its political and commercial functions. On
April 16th the Consulate’s new first floor gallery and, the
entire locale itself, will be inaugurated as the new Salvadoran Cultural
Space, or Espacio Cultural Salvadoreño, of Miami by the current
Salvadoran President Francisco Flores.
The Consulate was previously planning a re-location for its Miami
representation, but through its participation with the Latin American
Cultural Space (LACS) it has also managed to reinforce the Salvadoran
cultural connection. By becoming another center for the Salvadoran
Cultural Space—a program sponsored by LACS for the Salvadoran
arts—it has joined the ranks of likeminded consulates in Washington,
DC, Toronto, and Boston. The Consulates function as gallery spaces
while simultaneously carrying out their political, commercial and
representative duties in the United States and Canada.
The new Miami consulate debuts its contemporary gallery space with
a contemporary exhibit sponsored by the urban initiative Urban Project
for the Arts. The shall debut its offices and its new ECS gallery
with two Salvadoran artists: Guillermo Bonilla and Ricardo Regalado.
Bonilla’s fused 175 mosaics portray a grand-scale depiction
of the precarious balance between Nature or Humanity, Spirituality
or Materialism, and Conservation or Destruction. His works themselves
reflect a technical balance as he combines both painting and drawing
to achieve a multifunctional method and message that portrays the
same struggles of his once natural, but slowly modernizing native
country: El Salvador.
Ricardo Regalado, reflecting the struggles of 20th century Salvadoran
history, fuses his personal struggles and histories, these coming
from his country’s parallel past, into his drawings. Furiously
emotive, his figures convey a turbulent personal and national history
connected by bloodlines, nativity and development. The Bonilla and
Regalado exhibit shall accompany the series of new works loaned to
the Consular offices by the LACS Cáder Collection program.
These pieces shall feature selections from the Collection’s
Salvadoran artists like Carlos Ancalmo, Walterio Iraheta and Simon
Vega among others.
Details:Debut
Exhibit:
Carlos
Ancalmo’s “La Huella de Castro”
Walterio
Iraheta’s “Untitled-Diptych”
Veronica
Vides’ “Un Peso”
Simon
Vega’s “Urban Chaos”
Ronald
Moran’s “Dolarización = Inflación = Globalización”
Sueraya
Shaheen’s untitled 24-piece photograph installation
LACS info: The Latin American Cultural Space is a certified non-profit
organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion and cultivation
of the Latin American Arts. For more info. on programs, exhibits or
participation access: www.LatinSpace.org.
Urban Project for the Arts: The UPA initiative is a program sponsored
by the East Coast corporation Urban Investment Advisors and is dedicated
to the promotion of emerging artists and exhibitions in alternative
urban spaces.
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