Tenth Anniversary of the Abreu Center with Poker Face / All In

With a series of lectures and lectures as part of the inauguration of Oscar Abreu's Poker Face / All In exhibition, located on Curacao Street, in Santo Domingo East, will celebrate its ten years of work devoted to art and culture.

Abreu will present this Thursday, July 26th his solo exhibition Poker Face, the most comprehensive that the artist has presented to date, where he brings together more than 60 pieces of paintings, drawings and sculptures

The L '; event, which will feature the participation of several personalities from the local international artistic world, will take place from 7:00 pm in the aforementioned cultural space.

The evening will be followed by Puerto Rican Walter Otero, one of the most important gallery owners in the Caribbean and one of the 500 largest in the world.

"It is a privilege to have such a stature. Especially in this exhibition, which represents to a large extent my efforts to provide Dominican art with a different and quality content" , said the artist.

The Centro Abreu is an ambitious cultural and artistic project born in 2006 lowered the initiative of Abreu, with the intention of creating support for the local art. [19659004] Poker Face has a sober collection, mostly unpublished and other works that have been showcased at various celebrations in the United States, especially in New York, where According to Abreu, he received the highest awards received by exemplary citizens on the part of Councilor Ydanis Rodríguez, who noted that he was given the weighting of Hostos Community College: CUNY in The Heights, by Seny Taveras

.September 26 from 6am, l & # 39; 39, historian Gamal Michelen and art critic Abil P eralta Agüero will give lectures The experts will discuss the latest implications of contemporary Dominican art, as well as the challenges that local artists face before the international context

Michelén, who will talk about the projection of Dominican artists. and state policy, comes from San Juan de la Maguana, is an architect and also professor of history of art and design in different parts of the world, such as the United States, Panama , Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, among others,

"In the Dominican Republic we have had extraordinary precursors of the plastic arts like Rodríguez Urdaneta, García Godoy and Sisito Desangles, as well as an age of 39; gold with the arrival of the immigration of great masters, mainly Spanish, from the level of Gausachs "», emphasizes Michelén, who adds that "we understand this culture, which flows anyway because 39 it is intrinsically linked to each human group, must receive support from the state, which is by no means a control but must badume the role of facilitator and patron. "

Similarly, Michelén was Deputy Minister of Culture in 2000 and is currently President of the critics of the art." Until recently, he was also director of the Galería de Arte Guernica [19659004AbilPeraltaAgueroisrecognizednationallyandinternationallyasapbadionatelectureronthecomplexissuesofaestheticsdevelopmentandtheevolutionofnationalandinternationalartMemberoftheInternationalAssociationartcritics

After the presentation of Abil and Gamal, they will hold a conversation with the Puerto Rican gallerist Walter Otero, moderated by the curator of the Center, Amable López Meléndez.

The same Saturday evening , Abreu will perform a performance with the Puerto Rican painter Carlos Santiago, at the end of these conferences.

In 2002, Carlos Santiago was the winner of the prestigious Alfonso Arana Master scholarship, through which he reached Paris to expand their higher education in art. In his home country, Puerto Rico, he graduated from the School of Visual Arts.

About Santiago, art critic and Dominican curator Abil Peralta Agüero, the curator of the exhibition rests. In the catalog, he points out that "Carlos Santiago's painting is a medium of self-confidence, speaks of resistance, of humanism and challenge, he speaks of the urgent coexistence with the animal world, and speaks of the 39 love as a coexistence of the spirits and as a recreational setting for pleasure ".