Grand Opening Exhibitions at Bellas Artes / El Nigromante Cultural Center

GRAND ART OPENING
THREE NEW EXHIBITIONS AT BELLAS ARTES

Wednesday, October 17
7:00 pm

Free entry

Hernández Macías 75, Col. Centro

San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

The Cultural Center “El Nigromante” of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), is pleased to invite you to the opening of its new artistic exhibitions, next Wednesday, October 17 at 7 pm. For the Cultural Center it is vital to present the work of local, national and international artists that enrich the cultural life of San Miguel de Allende. For this reason, and to give a closure to an annual cycle of wonderful exhibitions, we will have the proposal of three artists who demonstrate this diversity.

We are presenting the exhibition “Becoming Bird” by the American artist Linda Girvin, with a series of photographs and video installation. The visceral “portraits” of Girvin mark the line between life and death, realism and abstraction, while highlighting an artist in transition. Girvin’s artistic work has been focused on photography. Her previous works reflected her tendency towards abstraction, but she soon shifted her focus to lenticular photography, a process that involves superimposing similar images to produce an animated effect. In this exhibition, her process begins within the study where she let these dead birds talk. In her own words: “The act of this collaboration. This exploring, touching and seeing; Has sharpened my awareness and dissolved my sense of other”.

At the same time, we will have the participation of Mexican artist Miguel Loyola, with his exhibition “Essays about void”. Loyola, in his sculpture and installation seek to exalt the human condition as a way to achieve an interdependent and harmonious society, convinced of the vocation of art as an agent of change. His main interest resides in projects that promotes a dialogue with the viewer to think about current social problems and the personal role in a possible solution. Through the assembly of opposing materials and the repetition of shapes and volumes he constructs, he is interested in the aesthetic synergies produced by contrast.

And to close this cycle, we will have the exhibition “Trips of the ghosts” by artist Mario Kon. Kon has been a sculptor for more than forty years. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is a Mechanical Engineer by the University of Buenos Aires. He emigrated to the United States in 1973 and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1979. He has been awarded several awards and scholarships and has participated in multiple group and solo exhibitions around the world. His plastic approach is aggressive and restorative, working with plywood and his own imperfections. He divides the space using lines and curves. Cuts, burns and paint the surface of the work, interested in the physical, emotional and spiritual forces that drive his creative ideas, as well as positive and negative spaces, depth and perspective.

Come and celebrate with us the opening of these three magnificent exhibitions.