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September 17, 2007
IAIA MUSEUM OPENS THREE NEW SHOWS!
IAIA Museum’s latest exhibitions combine international perspectives with social commentary, delivering a remarkable and diverse experience to viewers. Three distinct bodies of work fill the museum’s galleries in exhibitions that continue to mid-January
The vivid Australian Aboriginal representations of region, culture and spirit, created in remote northern Queensland by the Lockhart River Art Gang, are representative of contemporary expression from the continent’s Indigenous peoples . This community of artists, whose members include well known, mid-career art luminaries as well as emerging talents, is represented through more than two dozen paintings from the fast-rising art scene on the east coast of Cape York.
The strong emotional impact of The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos), a multi-venue exhibition, is being staged by nine contemporary arts organizations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Organized in response to a wave of South American and Latin American political kidnappings that saw social and political activists “disappear” from their homes and communities, The Disappeared includes work from more than two dozen artists of South American and Latin American origin. Many of these artists’ own lives have been touched by the kidnapping and killing of activists.
IAIA Museum will spotlight the work of Uruguay’s celebrated Antonio Frasconi, whose achievements include illustrating books by Pablo Neruda (Bestiary/Bestiario) and Langston Hughes (Let America be America Again). Two installations of Frasconi’s art, one comprised of 48 monotypes from the “In Memoriam” series created between 1981 and 1988, and the other an installation of eighteen woodblock prints that comprise “The Disappeared”, created in 1988, will remain through January 20.
While the topical inspiration of “War Paint” might be familiar to the museum’s visitors, the emotional impact underlying this exhibition’s works of art is considerably less tangible. Co-curated by artist Mateo Romero and IAIA Museum Deputy Director Joseph Sanchez, this exhibition of work from more than a dozen American Indian artists examines the experiences of military service from the perspective of the veterans themselves as well as their family members.
From T.C. Cannon to the Picasso-inspired Diego Romero (brother of the exhibition’s curator), this show has ‘not-to-be-missed’ written all over it.“The only message this show makes is that Native people have served their country with honor, despite the feelings of anger experienced when they return to mainstream society” says Joseph Sanchez, IAIA Museum Deputy Director.
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