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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / HALLANDALE BEACH, FL
November 28-December 28, 2016Sirona Fine Art
600 Silks Run, #1240 | Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
(954) 454-9494 | http://www.sironafineart.comLatin expression
“C
hévere’s intention is to break
stereotypes,” says Suzanne
Smith of Sirona Fine Art in Hallandale
Beach, Florida, of their upcoming group
exhibition. The show, displaying works
inspired by the Romance languages of
Latin America, is in collaboratation with
PoetsArtists Magazine, which will provide
a companion publication.
The show offers artists an opportunity
for extreme self-expression, according to
participant Yunior Hurtado Torres. “[It]
is a project that seeks the freshness of the
Latin, of how we are and how we express
ourselves without hiding anything,” he says.
“It is a representation of how diverse andcolorful we are, how we express ourselves.”
Torres will bring his oil on canvas painting
Esperando La Luz to the show.
“Being a Hispanic-American, I also feel a
personal connection to the show’s theme,”
says Elizabeth Ospina, whose painting
Corinne was inspired by the mystique of
the feminine form.
Some participants don’t shy away from
the political. Gig Depio’s oil painting
Party Pooper features Donald Trump,
wearing a Yankees uniform along with a
Mexican luchador costume and swinging
a pool noodle to hit a grenade. He says the
piece expresses how it takes “a spectacle
of Trump to wake us up in panic, only torealize that we don’t have the tools nor the
strategies to readily deal with these kinds
of problems at hand.”
Figurative painter Omalix takes a more
personal approach to the Latin American
theme. His painting Hasta la Raíz [To the
Root], “is a nostalgic yet hopeful visual
metaphor about my origins, my identity,
where I’ve been and where I want to be,
the ones I love, and all those memories
and emotions I carry underneath my
skin, embedded within me and deep to
my roots.”
Chévere will open on November 28 and
run until December 28, with an opening
reception on Saturday, December 3.12