New cultural activities announced for 2002

(Caracas, June 18, 2002).– In the interests of expanding its activities in support of rescuing the cultural heritage of Latin American and the Caribbean, CAF today presented its cultural activities for the second half of 2002.

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 As part of the Corporation’s cultural program, next June 27 the CAF Gallery will open its spaces for the Argentine Painters exhibition, which highlights examples from a range of pictorial schools of that nation.

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.