Spotlight on Latin artists: arteaméricas
Posted on Sun, Mar. 23, 2008
Doves float over a young girl and boy embracing in Demi's Lovers (oil on canvas, 60'' x 36'')..
IF YOU GO
What: Merrill Lynch arteaméricas
Where: Miami Beach Convention Center, Hall A, 1901 Convention Center Dr., Miami Beach
When: noon to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; noon to 7 p.m. March 30; noon to 5 p.m. March 31
Cost: $12 at the door; free from noon to 2 p.m. every day
Info: 305-854-3050 or
www.arteamericasmiami.com
Some 80 galleries from the Americas and Spain will showcase the work of scores of Latin American artists at Merrill Lynch arteaméricas, which opens Friday at Miami Beach Convention Center.
The featured artists range from late-Modern masters such as Wifredo Lam and Rufino Tamayo to contemporary mid-career and emerging talents.
Some, like Cuban American Demi and Mexican Luis Alonzo-Barkigia, live and work in Miami. In strikingly different styles, they deal with topics familiar to South Floridians. Demi's Baroque and haunting paintings evoke feelings of displacement and reflect upon the losses of a childhood marked by exile. Alonzo-Barkigia's mixed-media works investigate cultural transmutations and speak of life in the tropics with a dose of dark humor.
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