What: No Tengas Miedo (Have No Fear) solo exhibit
Who: Miami Artist Xavier Cortada
Where: Latin American Art Museum, 2206 SW 8th
Street, Miami, Florida; Phone: 305-644-1127 (Raul Oyuela, Museum Director; Barbara
Rueda, Museum Curator)
When: January 12, 2001 opening reception from 6:30
to 10 pm (the show runs through January 27, 2001)
Through "No Tengan Miedo" the artist explores the impact
of Pope John Paul IIs historic visit to Cuba on the third anniversary of his trip.
The exhibit contains paintings
created immediately after the artists first travel to the island--an 8-hour charter
trip to hear the Popes Mass, and those created thereafter. These works include some
recent conceptual
piecesthe first ever exhibited by Cortada.
Cortada explores the Popes impact at the societal and personal levelhaving
traveled to the Vatican in February 2000 to meet
the Pope and participate in the Jubilee for Artists, and then having returned to Cuba for the second time two months
later to meet family and attend a packed Sunday Mass in the family hometown of Nuevitas,
Camaguey.
On Opening night, January 12, 2001, all the exhibit's 13 paintings
and 22 conceptual pieces will be shown as a virtual exhibit on the artist's website, http://www.cortada.com/gallery/virtualexhibits/no-tengan-miedo/index.htm.
The exhibit includes a
four-part literature series presented by the Felix Varela Center for Cuban Studies at
St. Thomas University on January 16, 18, 23 and 25, 2001--all start at 8 p.m.. The
exhibit's closing reception is on Friday, January 26, 2001 from 6:30 pm until 10 p.m.
For more information please contact Xavier Cortada at 305-858-1323 or email him at xavier@cortada.com.