New cultural activities announced for 2002
- As part of the new cultural activities, CAF is sponsoring the new Gold and Silver Room of the Colonial Art Museum to be opened tomorrow in Quinta de Anauco.
- In its Art Gallery, CAF will present the Argentine Painters exhibition in cooperation with that country’s embassy in Caracas.
Ana Mercedes Botero, CAF director of Secretariat and External Relations, said that as part of these activities, CAF would sponsor, jointly with the Association of Friends of Colonial Art and the Colonial Art Museum, the new Gold and Silver Room of the Colonial Art Museum, which will open to the public from tomorrow June 19.
Botero said the Corporation also devoted part of its activities to promoting culture as a vehicle for improvement and social rescue, building social capital and recovering the talent that is sometimes hidden in the most neglected sectors of society.
The new Gold and Silver Room, in Quinta de Anauco, Ave Panteón, San Bernardino, Caracas, will permanently exhibit valuable pieces elaborated in gold, silver and precious stones of incalculable historical value.
These pieces reveal the art of silverwork, which was the artistic expression par excellence during the Hispanic period in Venezuela, which achieved its greatest expression in the second half of the 18th century.
Argentine painters
The exhibition consists of a set of works from private collectors which were brought together with the cooperation of the Argentine ambassador in Caracas, Roberto Villambrosa.
The exhibition presents the works of Antonio Berni, Ricardo Supisiche, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Enrique Policastro, Alberto Bali, Roberto Plate, Juan Lecuona, Laura Massoni, Alejandro Habi Bonomo, Antonio Seguí. Marta Pérez Temperley, Juan Castagnino, Lino Spilimbergo, Miguel Victorica, Santiago Daneri, Luis Cordiviola, Fortunato Lacamera, Raúl Russo, Leopoldo Presas and Demetrio Urruchúa.
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