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Raise your hands all you Casa de Campo art lovers! We bring you good news of a new art exhibit in Santo Domingo – the renowned Dominican artist Inés Tolentino, who resides in París, will be back in Santo Domingo on Thursday October 30th, to celebrate the opening of her new exhibit “Eyes Wide Open” .
This interesting exhibit can be seen at the Lyle O. Reitzel contemporary art gallery on the Gustavo Mejía Ricart street in Santo Domingo.
The exhibition consists of an interesting body of 16 pieces of unpublished works. These paintings and drawings showcase the delicacy and sophistication that characterizes her style. Sailing in her own universe she has continued to evolve to new conceptual levels, with the maturity and experience that dates far beyond her 30 year career.
As said by the artist in her own words: “This exhibition, represents the pleasure of the human representation. I say pleasure because there is a certain joy in reproducing, a face, a pose, a fold of a dress, a pair of hands. Eyes Wide Open displays the inhabitants of a same world. It is a collection of tender, burlesque and dramatic portraits, where the mask emphasizes a borderline between artifice and reality.”
The exhibition will be open to the public from October 30th 2014 to November 30th, 2014.
Inés Tolentino was born in Santo Domingo in 1962. She moved to París in the 1980’s where she later enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts. She fulfilled her education with a Masters in Plastic Arts and Art Science, as well as studies in aesthetic and ethno-anthropology.
The artist has been recognized since 1977 with a series of prominent awards, standing out by being a three-time award winner in the prestigious Leon Jimenes Art Contest. As well as being presented with prizes at the Seventh French-Japanese Biennial of Paris, at the International Art Festival of Cagnes-Sur-Mer, and at the Biennial of Domecq, Mexico.
Ines Tolentino has participated in a variety of collective exhibitions and reputable Biennials such as:
- Important and Young Ones of Today, París, Luxemburg.
- Collective Art, Space Beauregard, París
- Resonances, Artists of the Dominican Republic, the Alliace Francais, París
- Hundred Years of the PMU, Paris
- Four Painters of Latin America, Museum of Latin-American Art, Long Beach, California, USA
- Important and Young Ones of Today,Taiwan
INÉS TOLENTINO, “Eyes Wide Open”
Opening times: 9:30am to 6:30pm
Open: from the 30th of October to the 30th of November
Place: Galería Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo Gustavo Mejía Ricart, Torre Piantini Suite 1 & 2 A, Santo-Domingo, República dominicana.
Contacto: (809) 227-8361, (809) 519-9214 , (1) 305 510 2833, galeria.lyle@gmail.com