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No. 31. Voice From the Studio. The Newsletter of The Art of Félix Berroa. Atlanta, Georgia, April, May and June, 2009 |
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Blowing Hope
2- "Scenery Views Under Other Skies" (Digital Photography - Collages)
3- Cultural Rights in the Preplanning New RD Constitution
4- A Bit of History in the Artist Trajectory, Part of what will be the book in project , "The Art of Felix Berroa".
5- Guest in this Edition: Roberto Rimoli.
6- Colombian Master Jorge Ivan Arango Dies.
7- Fourth Anniversary of FelixBerroa.com |
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Dear collectors, galleries, museums, art festival organizers and friends.
Welcome to another edition of the newsletter of The Arts of Felix Berroa!
This year we bring several interesting news that we hope to be of you interest.
As always, Félix Berroa never stays in only one subject, materials or composition. In 1993 the art critic Marianne de Tolentino wrote for the newspaper Listin Diario:
"Félix
Berroa paints, places it, spaces it, joins it,
moves it its characters, in a choreography way.
More even, we don't stop to see them as marionettes
-the physiognomies help- that the "meneur
de jeu" or director manages with invisible
threads, then stops it and fixes it as on final
position of an spectacle, of a ballet, two-dimensional
in the canvas." - " Félix Berroa
is in our fine arts an artist who possesses
its unmistakable seal through the years. He
can modify the coloring, the support, the composition.
Remain the sad "Pierrot" faces, sad
until when smiles. Faces that touch the self-portrait.
Faces of large eyes, interrogative and introspective."
Do
will continue sad Félix Berroa's faces? Be
yourself his critic. Interpret them!
Well, this year, Félix Berroa divided his time working in two projects. A new collection of paintings that he call "Blowing Hope" and a group of digital photographs, edited in Photoshop, that he has shooting in trips to his native country, the Dominican Republic and Bucaramanga, Colombia. We hope those digital photographs collection be of you interest.
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you doesn't receive this Newsletter through
our "emails list", sign in. Sending
us you email. Also, if you wants any information
about his work or any specific work, write us
to one of his three emails or call.
Omaira Berroa, felbere@hotmail.com, fel_be@msn.com. fex_rey@yahoo.com. Tel. 678-355-1473.
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Next Exhibicions: |
1- April 18, 19: Alpharetta Arts Festival. Alpharetta, Georgia.
2- April 25, 26: Iman Park Arts Festival. Atlanta, Georgia.
3- May 10, 11: Tupelo, Mississippi.
4- May 16, 17: Kirwood Arts Festival. Georgia.
5- May 23, 24: Decatur Arts Festival. Decatur, Georgia.
6- June 6, 7: Virginia Highland. Atlanta, Georgia.
7- July 4 thru 30: PBJ Art Gallery. Atlanta, Georgia.
8.- Others exhibitions will be listing soon. If you need directions for any of those shows, contact us.
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1- Blowing Hope
- Soplando Esperanza - (Recent Works)
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Recent Works: Visit the exhibitions to enjoy the other paintings |
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2- "Scenery Views Under Other Skies" (Digital Photography - Collages)
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As a printmaker
since the beginning of Felix Berroa's professional career
(1974), he have worked with many print techniques (silk-screen,
mezzotints, woodcut, lithography, collagraphic, dry-point, monotypes,
linoleum-cut, etc.). That background motivates him to
combine his traveling digital photographs (photographs
in high resolutions of San Pedro de Macoris - Santo
Domingo, and Bogota - Bucaramanga, Colombia), and the
printed pictures of his paintings, to create in this
medium using the program Photoshop and a giclee printer.
Geclee is a French
word (giclée) that means a to spray or spurt a liquid.
The word probably may have been derived from the French
"gicler" that means meaning "to squirt". The
term "Giclee Print" it is high connotation
of the printmaking technology. The image is generated
by taking a digital photo or scans, edit it and printed
with archival ink on also, archival papers and canvases.
The collection is formed by around 200 digital photo-collages, and will be exhibited in separated space, initially in the Alpharetta Arts Festival, Georgia, April Saturday 18 and Sunday 19. The location is at the Alpharetta's Downtown Historic District. Below, the first 7 photos was shooting in San Pedro de Macoris and the capital of the Dominican Republic. The other 9 photos are from, Bucaramanga, Colombia. - PRESS THE IMAGE NUMBER BELOW TO ENLARGE.
3- Cultural Rights in the Preplanning New Constitution
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A great event
that comes to claim a fair reform of the Article
53 on the Cultural Rights, in the "Reform
Project of the Dominican Republic Constitution",
has been discussed arduously by intellectuals
of the Dominican Republic, representatives of
a very credited group of institutions: Red Dominicana
de Culturas Locales, Facultad Latinoamericana
de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO-RD), Universidad
Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) y Centro de
Investigación y Estudios Sociales (CIES)-UNIBE.
The most outstanding of the Dominican Republic
writers, poets, visual artists, actors, art critics,
sociologists, folklorists, songwriters, etc. has
signed in support to this important document of
reform. To see in the "Clave Digial"
newspaper the general information and a complete
list of the signatories, titled: CONSTITUTIONAL
REFORM: Academic and Social Organizations Ask
to Enrich the Cultural Rights": http://www.clavedigital.com/App_Pages/Portada/Titulares.aspx?id_Articulo=17469
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Thanks to the extraordinary effort of the friend and colleague, visual artist and thinker Carlos Santos to keep us informed in his blog on the details of this project through its development (Spanish): http://arte-carsa.blogspot.com/
Recently was created a Blog of support to the modification to the Art. 53 of the constitution on Cultural Rights done by the civil society and the intellectuals: http://art53derechoscult.blogspot.com/ |
4- A Bit of History in the Artist Trajectory, Part of what will be the book in project , "The Art of Felix Berroa".
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The most important subjects through the artistic career of Félix Berroa have been the childhood, the woman, the cultural chock, the sensuality, the classic and popular dance, musicians, open windows, others. He do no stays in one subject. He has always been something as an "Histories Teller", in which the "main characters" are his create stylized characters. In some works he has painted a "histories teller" with hat that is almost always a self-portrait.
"In 1979, living in Puerto Rico, I fall in love with their "plena", "bomba" and "seis chorreao" music. "Pleneros players" using hats. Then, I find the symbolic meaning of the hat in a Dictionary of Symbols. Since that, I have used "Panama" type hats of large wings, because the symbolism of this garment, in addition to protect the hair, the scalp and the face skin against the sun, it is to CONTAIN THE IDEAS, THE THOUGHTS." - Felix Berroa.
"The inclined or askew heads (sometime horizontal) is a stylistic |
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Felix Berroa. Paiewonsk Galleryi. 1981. |
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resource that has its symbolism, its meaning and origin in my subjects related with the childhood, in the playful innocence of the children." - Felix Berroa.
"The brushstrokes that wrap the skin and give volume to my characters, comes from my works as a printmaker in the 1970's, inspired by the works of Rembrand, Dürer and others from the same period. Faustino Pérez wrote for the exhibition brochure "Of The Life, The Dream, and The Death" in 1981: "The brushstrokes in acrylic simulates scars that form a scab of the reason and the unreasonableness, of the reason and the subconciente, as indelible prints of the daily battling and the underlying catharsis." Photo of the right: Felix Berroa, Paiewonski Gallery, Santo Domingo. 1981.
In his original
country Felix Berroa is located in the generational
group that emerge in the 1980's, because he belongs
to the same group that studied in the National School
of Fine Arts and the Autonomous University of Santo
Domingo -UASD-. This group is known as "The 80's
Generation". However, his style, with the mentioned
characteristics, was born in the 1977 and, in that same
year he exhibit his works in Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo and obtained his first newspaper art review positive
(Listin Diario), by the most important art critic in
those time, Marianne de Tolentino. The fire to create
that Félix Berroa had could not wait. He advances to
his graduation date and emerge in "The 70's Generation".
5- Guest of this Edition: Roberto Rimoli
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ROBERTO RIMOLI AND HIS BOOK: "DRACULA SUELE SER PUNTUAL" (Dracula is usually Punctual)
Roberto Rimoli is a friend from my Dominican Republic time who at the present time lives in Puerto Rico. He is a journalist, graphologist and psychologist of profession. I was happy to see in the " PRIMICIA" newspaper the good comments about his book "Dracula it is usually Punctual".
"The
text Dracula is Usually Punctual, a pioneer
investigation in the Dominican Republic,
about the relationship between the pupil
and the mathematics, as how they perceives
them and how they integrates them in they
learning process and to they professional
life. The book is circulating in the bookstores
La Trinitaria and International, in addition
to be able to be order by Internet visiting
the author's website: www.rimoli.galeon.com.
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6- . Colombian Master Jorge Ivan Arango dies:
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Carlos Prada Hernandez, Director of MARIO HERNANDEZ PRADA GALLERY, maintains his "mailing list" informed of what happens in the Bucaramanga, Colombia environment. With pleasure I always open up and read his emails. A few days ago, one of those emails, was a sad news for the art in Bucaramanga and Colombia in general. The artist Master Jorge Iván Arango had died, information that I expands in the digital section of the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper of that city. Why I publish this note? For the Bucaramanga art enviroment and the died artist, I'm an strange Dominican artist who lived in the United States for the last 30 years. Well, during my visit to that city last November, 2008, I meet his work in galleries, public murals and, accidentally, with his studio.
Without being
looking for, driving around the "Meseta de
los Santos" (Plateau of the Saints), in search
of the "Salto del Mico" (Jump of the Monkey)
-water fall-, without knowing it, I find the studio
of this artist. By the two large sculptures in front
of a estate I thought that an artist should live
there and, without knowing who was, for curiosity
we stop and ask. The artist was not there. It was
visiting his doctor, but his assistant allowed us
to get look around. In addition to appreciate the
geographical location of his studio, with spectacular
views, surrounded by the nature in a wide land of
several acres, in the high level of the plateau,
I could also admire his work on the vegetation,
the Colombian forest that he dominates masterfully,
in spontaneous brushstrokes, in the technique "wet
on wet", that in Dominican Republic dominates
Master Guillo
Pérez. Rest in Peace Master Jorge Iván Arango.
Attached are some links where you can appreciate the works of this Master no only of Bucaramanga, but of the Colombian Art:
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7- Fourth Anniversary of FelixBerroa.com
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Between 2002
and 2004 Félix Berroa was represented in the entrant
by the most noted virtual gallery of the web in
New York City: PaintingsDirect.com.
The representation and sales were satisfactory,
but the contract he had with them didn't allow he
to have his own website. While the contract finished,
he study six months Computer Graphic Design in Eastern
Suffolk Boces, Central Island, New York. The course
covered the learning of the three of the most used
programs by the graphic industry: Illustrator, Photoshop
and Quark XPress. With that base, he look for the
advice of the web designer Victoria
Twomey, for the program Dreamwaver and, FelixBerroa.com
born this way.
FelixBerroa.com has already four to be created (He publish FelixBerroa.com by first-time in July 2004). Since that time has rained a lot and the response have been very good. FelixBerroa.com has already traveled around half world.
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Other Galleries from Colombia - Otras Gallerias de Colombia |
Other Galleries from Dominican Republic- Otras Gallerias de Republica Dominicana |
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| About Félix Berroa - Acerca de Félix |
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| Felix Berroa's Works - Trabajos de Felix Berroa |
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| Outdoor Shows - Exposiciones al Aire Libre |
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| Contact - Estableciendo Contacto con Felix Berroa |
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| Santo Domingo, San pedro de Macoris, Republica Dominicana |
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| Travel - Viaje - a Bogota, Colombia |
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