Talk: Art and the Creative Muse

Art and the Creative Muse

Thursday, March 28, 2019
12:00 pm

Pergola Gallery
Instituto Allende

by René de Rebecca and Carolina Parra

The iconic Pergola Gallery is proud to present its bilingual San Miguel de Allende’s Capital of Culture 2019 series,  bringing the creative work and aesthetics of the artists it represents to a wider audience.  People of all ages with a flair for self-expression are invited  to an informal talk and performance about “Creativity in art” by interdisciplinary artist Tim Hazell at the gallery’s Ancha de San Antonio # 22 space in the historic second patio of the Instituto Allende, Thursday, March 28, at 12:00 pm.

Tim moves freely between vision and creative action, using diverse mediums of poetry, music, visual arts, theater, and cinema to transform encounters with inner and daily life.  His color line and contour evoke different sources of inspiration, particularly references to symbolic behavior and ritual and how they define products of craftsmanship that are emblematic of cultures with widely disparate traditions.

In native communities, rhythms of planting and harvesting, the manufacture and repair of ritual objects, tools and musical instruments belong to their world of transitory things.  Universal and enduring human emotions are manifested in their poetry, philosophy, music and humanism, expressions that document the fragility of life and transience of beauty.  Isolated settlements and great civilizations shared the view that struggles for survival were part of a custodial relationship with a living universe and a reaffirmation of the awesome power and omnipotence of nature.

Tim’s investigations with dry mediums, paint and mixed-media range from flurries of spontaneous gesture to strong intellectual processes of analysis.  Objects that are normally experienced in static ambient relationships are randomly juxtaposed, creating new and tantalizing contextual situations.

Professor of Fine Arts and Director of Art at the Instituto Allende from 1998-2001, Tim’s visual arts catalogue reflects indigenous and contemporary influences with 60 international shows and private collections in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe.  Grants and awards have come from the National Endowment for the Arts, John Anson Kittredge and San Miguel Community Foundations.  He is Founder and Director of the Cinco de Mayo Music Academy, Founder and Conductor of the Pro Musica Youth Chamber Orchestra, Pro Musica’s Vice-President and Director of Music Education.

Tim is the author of four books published by Texas Heritage Music Foundation, two feature films: “Inner Earth,”with Emmy-award-winning composer and pianist Ken Bichel and “Rituals,” which was featured at the 2016 San Miguel Writer’s Conference.  Musical collaborations include “A Forest of Americas” with Doug Robinson and two CDs of original music for solo piano with co-composer Liz Stone, interpreted by renowned pianist Marta García Renart.  He also writes “Cultural Perspectives, a column of food anthropology for Atención San Miguel.