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This Friday, August 21st at 7:30pm, the Altos de Chavon Art Gallery will be delighting art lovers with the latest collection of La Romana’s own Jorge Silvestre. His new exhibit, entitled “Cielos Inventados” or Imaginary Skies is composed of 2o pieces inspired by local landscapes. His art will be on exhibit from August 21st until September 21st, 2009
If you have followed the artist’s career in La Romana, probably you have had the opportunity to appreciate his remarkable preference for landscapes, windows, Caribbean architecture, and marine life. This time Altos de Chavon Gallery invites you to admire nature seen from Silvestre’s perspective. To understand why new shapes, lines and traces become part of the sky or the trees. The use of color, materials and techniques hasn’t changed at all, he has just made subtle variations that make his pieces even more attractive to the spectator.
A little more about the artist…
Jorge Silvestre, born on September 9th 1965 in la Romana, Dominican Republic, this 43 year old artist has had a very successful career, with exhibits in different countries, while some of his masterpieces can be found in private collections throughout Sweden, Korea, United States, Japan, Italy, United Kingdom, France and Spain. Indeed 2009, has been a very important year for the artist. On March 20th , Spanish art dealer, Mr. Oscar Villegas, invited him to participate in a Collective Exhibition in Cadiz at El Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de la Línea called “Raíces Caribe”, in which five famous Dominican painters showcased their most recent artwork.
El próximo viernes 21 de Agosto a las 7:30 pm, la Galería Principal de Altos de Altos de Chavón será el punto de encuentro ideal para los amantes de las artes plásticas que se podrán deleitar con la nueva propuesta del artista plástico dominicano Jorge Silvestre. La muestra, la cual permanecerá abierta al público por un período de un mes, llevará por nombre “Cielos Inventados” compuesta por unas veinte obras que se inspiran en diferentes paisajes de su tierra natal.
Con un total de catorce exposiciones individuales y colectivas, a nivel nacional e internacional, este artista oriundo de la Romana, ha logrado atraer un público muy exigente que le ha visto evolucionar en el manejo del color, el uso de materiales y la temática. Sin embargo, hay un sello que identifica las obras de Silvestre que se ha mantenido inalterable en el tiempo, y son sus finas líneas yuxtapuestas al producto final, a veces delineadas y otras garabateadas.
“Cielos inventados” hace referencia a un nuevo elemento presente en el trabajo de Silvestre; formas y trazos que producto de la imaginación, se integran al paisaje como un elemento más, llegando a ser el punto focal de la obra. Encontraremos una nueva manera de presentar lo conocido, lo observado por todos.