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SORIANO FERNÁNDEZ FRANCISCO
SORIANO FERNÁNDEZ FRANCISCO

Francisco Soriano Fernandez

Nace en la ciudad de Puebla el 3 de diciembre de 1983.  Licenciado en Diseño gráfico por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla,  Maestro en Artes Visuales por la Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Autónoma de México y Doctor en Artes Visuales con especialidad en Pintura por la FAD, UNAM.

Ha sido seleccionado en distintos certámenes de pintura entre los que destacan la Mención de Honor en la “Bienal Pedro Coronel” del Estado de Zacatecas en 2010, Mención de Honor en la X Bienal de Pintura de Campeche en el año 2013 entre otros reconocimientos.

Actualmente se desempeña como académico en el área de pintura en el Posgrado en Artes y Diseño de la FAD, UNAM. Así como docente en los talleres de Educación Continua de la Academia de San Carlos, FAD, UNAM.

Desde el año 2012 funge como difusor cultural a través de distintas plataformas digitales al mismo tiempo que realiza crítica y análisis del contexto artístico actual.

Su obra se encuentra en diversas colecciones tanto nacionales como internacionales en países como: Israel, Italia,  Estados unidos, Argentina, Canadá, España, entre otros.

Doctorado en Artes Visuales UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Maestría en Artes y diseño UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico BUAP

Dr. FRANCISCO SORIANO
Puebla Pue. 3 de diciembre de 1983.
Licenciado en Diseño gráfico por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Maestro en Artes por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. Doctor en Artes Visuales con especialidad en pintura por la misma institución. Ha sido seleccionado con mención de honor en la “Bienal Pedro Coronel” del Estado de Zacatecas en 2010 así como en la X Bienal de Pintura de Campeche entre otros reconocimientos. Su obra se encuentra en colecciones privadas en Israel, España, Italia, Estados Unidos y México.

Maestro de n artes visuales con especialidad en técnicas pictóricas. Licenciado en Diseño Grafico por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pintor, escritor y creador de contenido.

Se desempeña también como crítico de arte, escritor y difusor cultural, así como académico en el Posgrado de Artes Visuales de la UNAM y maestro de taller en los cursos abiertos de la Academia de San Carlos en la Ciudad de México.

Dr. Francisco Soriano Fernandez es creador de contenidos sobre arte y pintura en youtube, mi propósito es llevar contenidos de calidad sobre artes visuales a un publico latino incluyendo: clases sobre arte, tutoriales de pintura, comentarios sobre artistas, todo a través de mi canal de Youtube: Dr.FranciscoSoriano

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Dr. Patricia Rogers

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CEO, Unity in Service, Inc

International Speaker, Best Selling Author, Visibility Strategist

Dr. Patricia Rogers

Dr. Patricia Rogers is a retired Army Veteran of 12 years, she spent 29 years in law enforcement, retiring in 2016 as a corrections lieutenant.  Since retiring, she is the CEO of Unity In Service, Inc, Her zone of genius is an Event Coordinator for the past 7 years where she takes pride in setting a platform for publics speakers to speak and entrepreneurs to connect and build professional networks and increase their clientele.  Dr. Rogers has served thousands through the events that she host. She is a Visibility Strategist, Business Coach, a Director in LegalShield where she provides legal and identity theft services for individuals and entrepreneurs.  She has received a plethora of awards and she is an outstanding member of Women’s Prosperity Network & International Women Association.  The only way for you to succeed, is to have a love for yourself and a burning desire to live out your purpose. When you love yourself, you will have a deep passion for discovering your gifts and your talents. Your gifts and talents are what you will be about to monetize so that you can enhance your lifestyle. If you love yourself; your business will profit, because “You Are Your ‘Business? “be in love with your business. Why? Because you are your business! The risk involved, and the stress that comes from building a foundation that will yield you a better lifestyle can be daunting. In order to be a servant to the masses, you must make sure that you are conditioned; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. My message is about how people want to be entrepreneurs in the 21st century, but many are not aware of the challenging work that goes along with building a business.  There are characteristics that we must portray, and whatever our passion is, it must be so strong that we will be determined to achieve our goals by any means necessary. I said all that that because in order to be productive as an entrepreneur, you must love yourself enough to make huge investment, financially and physically. Self-love and care are a priority. If one fails to have self-love, then he or she will be of no use to anyone else. Entrepreneurs are servants and servants must have good positive energy and energy comes from self-care in our diets, in our minds and even in the relationships that we develop. At the end of the day, you are your business and if your foundation is not firm, your business will not make it. Statics say that business fail within the first five years.
Your passion must be so strong that you will not give up when you faced challenges, financial burden, disappointments, not to mention the things that we cannot control like the pandemic and other crisis. When you love yourself by maintain your hierarchy of needs, you will stand these challenging times.   Perseverance, patience, determination, resilience, confidence, intuition, creativity, and positive energy are all prerequisite of being in love with who God created you to become. When you love yourself, it will show on the outside and your positive energy will attract the right people into your life.

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Art Wynwood 10th edition

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A DECADE OF ART WYNWOOD: MIAMI’S PREMIER WINTER CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR RETURNS
ON PRESIDENTS DAY WEEKEND WITH MORE THAN 50 WORLD CLASS GALLERIES


MIAMI – Art Wynwood, Miami’s foremost winter art fair, produced by Art Miami, is returning for its 10th
edition. Taking place over Presidents Day Weekend, the fair will launch with an exclusive VIP Preview on
Thursday, February 16 before opening to the public Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 19 at
One Herald Plaza.
Art Wynwood provides a unique opportunity for collectors to discover and explore the world’s most
prestigious contemporary, emerging and modern art galleries in the vibrant cultural hub of South
Florida. Since Art Wynwood’s ninth edition in 2020, the city’s real estate boom has been one of the
country’s largest transfers of wealth, making Art Wynwood 2023 the best opportunity to collect some of
the most important art works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
More than 50 leading international galleries from countries spanning England, Italy, the Dominican
Republic, Canada, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Austria,
and throughout the U.S. will showcase an elevated array of murals, pop surrealism, street art and other
modern and contemporary genres by innovative emerging artists as well as top names.
“Year over year, Art Wynwood attracts key collectors, curators, art advisors, designers, and art aficionados from around the world,” shares Art Wynwood Director Julian Navarro. “Art Wynwood’s highly anticipated 2023 edition will feature a mix of new and established contemporary galleries, as well as special projects and solo exhibitions.”
For the first time in the fair’s history, Thursday’s VIP Preview will benefit The Bass, Miami Beach’s
preeminent contemporary art museum, supporting its mission to expand the interpretation of
contemporary art, and use art as a catalyst for creativity and positive growth.
“We are delighted to partner with Art Wynwood,” says Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director/Chief
Curator for The Bass. “The fair offers a vibrant platform for international art enthusiasts and collectors to discover emerging contemporary artists and exciting new works, further positioning Miami as a hub for visual arts.”

Art Wynwood 2023 is expected to draw prominent attendees and for the third year, the world-renowned
Miami International Boat Show will be adjacent to Art Wynwood, an in-water display showcasing the most extraordinary and uniquely designed yachts and superyachts from the world’s foremost custom boat builders.
During this year’s fair, Art Wynwood will present Kelly “RISK” Graval with the Art Wynwood Lifetime
Artistic Achievement Award. Regarded as a founder of the West Coast Graffiti movement, LA-based RISK was the first to paint full-color pieces and productions on the city’s freeway, creating the Los Angeles freeway movement, and continues to innovate and shape contemporary art through his work. Presented in partnership with Wynwood Walls, the award recognizes individuals in art whose careers have changed the industry. Previous award recipients include Mel Ramos, Martha Cooper, Shepard Fairey, Logan Hicks, and Ron English.
Presented by Chase Contemporary, RISK’s art will be featured on an outdoor mural flanking the Fair
entrance. He will also debut four new Virtual Reality graffiti prints, which when activated via a phone
camera come to life through the screen. Other Art Wynwood 2023 highlights include:
● Heitsch Gallery will present four new thought provoking works from artist Eike König.
● Laurent Marthaler will showcase new works from Swiss artists Crystel Ceresa and Daniel
Cherbuin.
● Liquid Art System will present hyperrealist works, including paintings by Attilio Cianni and
sculptures by Peter Demetz.
● Fabien Castanier Gallery will showcase works from RERO, Jan Kalàb and Austyn Taylor.
● Art Angels will present works from Michael Callas and Flore.
● Cernuda Arte will showcase paintings from Wifredo Lam and Carlos Alfonzo.

ALL PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
33 Contemporary Gallery Chicago | Adamar Fine Arts Miami | Aldo Castillo Gallery Naples | AOA;87
Bamberg, Germany | Art Angels Los Angeles | Avant Gallery Miami | Bel Air Fine Art Miami – Paris –
Geneva | Blink Group Fine Art Miami | Boulderton Contemporary Art Miami | Cernuda Arte Coral
Gables | Chase Contemporary New York City | Colour Senses Project Miami | Connect Contemporary
Atlanta | Contemporary Art Projects USA Miami | Contessa Gallery Palm Beach – Cleveland | Dane
Fine Art Philadelphia | De Haro Projects Miami – Granada | District & Co. / Arthodox Cap Cana –
Sanxenxo | Eternity Gallery Miami | Fabien Castanier Gallery Miami | Frederic Got Paris | Galeria

Casa Cuadrada Bogotá – Miami | Galleria Ca’ D’Oro/ModArt Gallery Fort Lauderdale – Miami Beach |
Gallery Mavruk Boca Raton | Hanono Gallery New York | Heitsch Gallery Munich | HOFA Gallery
London | In The Gallery Copenhagen – Palma | Indiana Bond Gallery Bogota | Kedria Arts Kyiv –
Birmingham | Kush Fine Art Miami Beach – Las Vegas -Laguna Beach | Lassiter Fine Art West Palm
Beach – Indonesia | Latin Art Core Miami | Laurent Marthaler Montreux -Zurich | Lawley Art Group
Dallas | Liquid Art System Capri – Positano – Ravello | Liz Clement Contemporary New York – Miami –
Boston | Masterworks Fine Art Gallery Palo Alto | Matthew Swift Gallery Gloucester | Nuu Muse
Contemporary Art Dallas | Octavia Art Gallery New Orleans | Oliver Cole Gallery Miami | Phillip
Michaels Art New York City | Projects Gallery Miami | Quidley & Company Naples – Nantucket –
Westport | Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery London | Roche São Paulo | Miami | New York | Shchukin
Gallery New York | Sist’Art Gallery Venice | Steidel contemporary West Palm Beach |The Plaza
Galleries Whistler | VK Gallery Amsterdam | Zukunft Galerie Miam.

HOURS AND LOCATION
Fair Hours:
Opening Night VIP Preview: Thursday, February 16: 6 – 10 p.m.
General Admission:
Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 19: 11 a.m. – 5 pm.
Location: The Art Wynwood Pavilion, One Herald Plaza @ NE 14th Street, on Biscayne Bay between the
Venetian Causeway & MacArthur Causeway, Downtown Miami
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets are available for purchase at http://www.artwynwood.com/tickets. For further information or
tickets, please call 1.305.517.7977, email [email protected]

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About Art Wynwood:
Art Wynwood is Miami’s premier winter contemporary and modern art fair, presented by Art Miami. In
its 10th edition, Art Wynwood has brought together world class galleries, collectors, private and
corporate art advisors, museum professionals, curators, interior designers, art enthusiasts and
tastemakers in America’s favorite destination for the arts, Miami. http://www.artwynwood.com.
About Art Miami:
Art Miami, owned by Informa Markets, is the leading international contemporary and modern art fair that
takes place each December during Art Week. It is one of the most important annual contemporary art
events in the United States, attracting motivated collectors, curators, museum professionals and art
enthusiasts from around the globe. Now in its 32nd year, Art Miami remains committed to showcasing the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries in collaboration with a selection of the world’s most respected galleries. Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America’s contemporary art fair market. With a rich history, it is the original and longest-running contemporary art fair in Miami and continues to receive praise for the variety of unparalleled art that it offers. It is the “can’t miss” event for all serious collectors, curators, museum directors and interior designers providing an intimate look at some of the most important work at the forefront of the international contemporary art movement.
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Art Wynwood, Miami’s premier winter art fair, produced by Art Miami, is returning for its 10th edition Presidents Day Weekend. The fair will kick-off the holiday weekend with an exclusive VIP Preview on Thursday, February 16 benefiting The Bass museum before opening to the public Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 19 at One Herald Plaza.
 

Art Wynwood provides a unique opportunity for collectors to discover and explore the world’s most prestigious contemporary, emerging and modern art galleries in the vibrant cultural hub of South Florida. More than 50 leading international galleries from countries spanning England, Italy, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Austria, and throughout the U.S. will showcase, pop surrealism, street art and other modern and contemporary genres by more than 550 innovative emerging and top name artists.

Art Wynwood 2023 will coincide with the Discover Boating Miami International Boat Show, taking place on Biscayne Bay between the Venetian and MacArthur Causeways, adjacent to Art Wynwood.

ARTIST LIST.

Henrik Abedian

Craig Alan

Carlos Alfonzo

Michael Ahlefeldt

Margarete Adler

Francisco Antigua

Belkis Ayón

Aquiles Azar Billini

Monica Ard

Hernando Alzate

Elisa Anfuso

Agostino Arrivabene

Chadwick Arcinue

Evangeline Ang

CHRISTIAN ALBARRACIN

CHRISTIAN ABUSAID

B

Vanessa Barragão

Giacinto Bosco

Ewa Bathelier

Joel Besmar

Cundo Bermúdez

Simon Berger

Mr. Brainwash

Hanneke Beaumont

Harry Benson

Tommaso Buldini

Gabrielle Barzaghi

Roberto Bernardi

Silvia Berton

Clarita Brinkerhoff

Betiana Bradas

Diana Beltram

Rafael Barrios

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Norman Bluhm

C

Hugo Carrillo

Umberto Ciceri

Daniel Cherbuin

Crystel Ceresa

Chuck Close

George Charriez

CEVE

CJ Cowden

Andre Paul Croteau

Mario Carreño

Attilio Cianni

Renato Costa

Carolina Convers

Francesco Clemente

D

Seo Young Deok

Peter Demetz

Bruce Dorfman

Juan Roberto Diago

Sandro De La Rosa

Rachel Daly

David Drebin

Pezhman Deljou

Antoine Dufilho

Jorge Jimenez Deredia

Sandú Darié

Antonio D. de Haro

Carla D Amato

E

Giosvany Echevarría

Gregg Emery

Tomás Esson

Augusto Esquivel

F

Roberto Fabelo

Miguel Florido

Flora Fong

Agustín Fernández

Fachrasi

Roberto Ferri

Pablo Fernandes jr

Roman Feral

Tommaso Fattovich

John Ferren

G

Marco Grassi

Irina Elén González

Víctor Manuel García

Lilian García-Roig

J.P. Goncalves

Srinjoy Gangopadhyay

Victor Gadino

Sergio Gomez

Jacob GILS

T.M. Glass

Ramón Giovanni

Javier Guadalupe

Kelly “RISK” Graval

Cleve Gray

H

Frank Hyder

Vicente Hernández

Drew Harris

Hijack Hijack

David Hollier

Cary Henrie

Ewa Hauton

Jordana Hanono

I

Robert Indiana

J

Lea Jessen

Jorge Jurado

Nelson Jahill

Laurence Jones

Mercedes Jelinek

Luis Jimenez

Nygel Jones

K

Yayoi Kusama

Kiseok Kim

Eike König

Vladimir Kush

Oleg Kedria

Markus KLINKO

Bodo Korsig

Mykola Khodorovsky

Sally Ko

Koctel Koctel

Victoria Kovalenchikova

Jan Kalàb

L

Peter Lyons

Luangrath Landeira

Wifredo Lam

Jacques LeBESCOND

Kathrin Longhurst

Junyi Liu

Morten Lassen

Roberto Lombana

Kristy Lee

Aron Leaman

M

Martin Mancera

Maquiamelo

Caterina Mejia

Paolo Medici

Santiago Medina

Danuel Méndez

José Mijares

Manuel Mendive

Peter McLennan

Hulis Mavruk

Hakan Mavruk

Phillip Michaels

Clara Morera

Luis Martínez Pedro

Raúl Martínez

Maquiamelo Maquiamelo

Sabrina Milazzo

Tatyana Murray

Andres Moreno

Billy MONSALVE Duffo

Alex Melo

Emmanuel Meneses

N

Louise Nevelson

Fabia Nitti

Richard Nott

Jim Naughten

O

Richard Orlinski

Qozeem Olaoluwa

Carola Orieta Sperman

Anastasia Ovsyannikova

P

René Portocarrero

Gina Pellón

Iurii Poniatovskii

Peppone

Cécile Plaisance

Laurina Paperina

Amelia Peláez

Fidelio Ponce De Leòn

Andy Pruna

Larry Poons

Q

Alex Queral

R

Alejandro Rauhut

Miri Rozenvain

Barak & Miri Rozenvain

Michael Rozenvain

Barak Rozenvain

Jose Luis Ramirez

José Rosero

Kim Radochia

Adam Scott Rote

Almir Reis

CLAUDE ROEGIERS

S

John Geoffrey Sánchez

Matthew Spire

STALLMAN STUDIO

Maria Svarbova

Daniele Sigalot

CC Streetzy

Aleksandra Savina

Stephan Schnedler

Søren Solkær

Hunt Slonem

eL Seed

Sutton Sutton

Rafael Soriano

Loló Soldevilla

Jorge Luis Santos

Helga Schmidhuber

Phil Shaw

Merrill Steiger

Nana S.R.T.

MACTIVO SALOM

Wuilfredo Soto

Kaiser Suidan

Matt Spire

T

Zhanna Thomas

Yunior Hurtado Torres

Alexi Torres

Austyn Taylor

Filippo Tincolini

Cuchi Taborda

Rachel T. Hicks

Giorgio Tentolini

NA TOURAGE

U

Michele A. Utley-Voigt

Nicolas Uribe

V

Julian Voss-Andreae

Gustavo Vasquez

Fredy Villamil

Willy Verginer

KUNO VOLET

W

Elizabeth Waggett

Vladimir Weland

LouAnn Wukitsch

Andy Warhol

X

XOOOOX

Z

Idan Zareski

Tatiana Zaytseva

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Apolíneo

Apolíneo
Apolíneo
  1. 1.adjetivo Perteneciente o relativo al dios griego Apolo.
  2. 2.adjetivo Que posee las cualidades de serenidad y elegante equilibrio atribuidas a Apolo, en contraposición a dionisíaco.

Sinónimos de apolíneo: 

Lindo, Gracioso, Apolínico, Bello, Formoso, Adonis, Hermoso, Guapo, Bien parecido.

La palabra apolíneo proviene del latín Apollinaeus y significa relacionado con Apolo. Se refiere a las características de perfección corporal, serenidad y equilibrio elegante que se atribuyen al dios griego Apolo. 

El término “apolíneo” fue introducido por Nietzsche en su obra El origen de la tragedia. 

Apolíneo puede significar:

  • De Apolo o relativo a él
  • Apuesto, hermoso
  • Equilibrado, coherente 

Apolíneo también puede significar:

  • Perteneciente o relativo al dios griego Apolo
  • Que posee las cualidades de serenidad y elegante equilibrio atribuidas a Apolo, en contraposición a dionisíaco
  • Dicho de un hombre: Que posee gran perfección corporal 

Lo apolíneo también puede significar:

  • Mesura
  • Lo racional
  • Lo limitado
  • El orden
  • La luz
  • La consideración del mundo como una totalidad ordenada, luminosa y racional 

Lo apolíneo se opone a lo dionisíaco. Lo dionisíaco representa la embriaguez, el exceso por los placeres, la vida subjetiva de los individuos. 

Lo apolíneo también puede representar el principio de individuación que tiende a limitar al individuo encerrándolo en sí mismo. Se expresa fundamentalmente en las artes espaciales, más estáticas y acabadas: la arquitectura y la escultura.

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SAGAMORE SOUTH BEACH COLLABORATES WITH CONTESSA GALLERY

SAGAMORE SOUTH BEACH COLLABORATES WITH CONTESSA GALLERY

FOR LOBBY TAKEOVER FEATURING ART BY ALEXI TORRES
The Historic Art Deco Hotel Will Display “Woven Connections,” an Exhibition
Featuring Works by Alexi Torres Presented by Contessa Gallery

Miami Beach’s historic art deco hotel Sagamore South Beach announces an exciting collaboration with Palm Beach-based Contessa Gallery, an acclaimed fine art gallery offering high-quality artworks and acquisition counsel to collectors, museums and institutions. Through April 21, 2023, the prestigious gallery will take over the hotel lobby with a solo exhibition by Cuban-born artist Alexi Torres entitled “Woven Connections.”

Known for his surreal large-scale oil paintings that appear as if they are knitted and woven, Torres draws
inspiration from everyday organic objects such as leaves, feathers, baskets and cloth. His work is driven by a love of nature and a dedication to perfecting his intricate “woven” painting technique. Each of his incredible pieces creates a three-dimensional, multilayered illusion that draws viewers in for a closer look.
Inspired by his Cuban upbringing, Torres views art-making as planting an idea and harvesting it. He builds the stretchers, stretches the canvases and primes them himself. Like his ancestors during the harvest, he starts and finishes each work following the cycle of the waning moon.
“We are so excited to collaborate with Contessa Gallery and to display Alexi Torres’ magnificent works of art in
our lobby,” said Sagamore South Beach Owner and Artistic Director Ronit Neuman. “The Sagamore prides itself on its year-round art programming and museum-quality exhibitions, so it’s a natural fit for us to collaborate with such a renowned and respected gallery.”

“We are very excited about our collaboration with the Sagamore, which has been a premier art hotel for
decades,” said Contessa Gallery founder and owner Steven Hartman, who opened Contessa Gallery in Cleveland in the late ’90s to fulfill his passion for becoming a fine art dealer. In 2016, he opened the Palm Beach location after a decade of participating in prestigious West Palm Beach art fairs. “When you mix the proper venue and context with the right gallery curation – and the incredible talent of Alexi Torres’ caliber – magic happens.” “Woven Connections” will be on view in the Sagamore South Beach lobby through April 21, 2023. All works displayed will be available for sale to the public.

The exclusive lobby exhibition is part of the hotel’s ongoing Sagamore Is Art platform, which presents year-round rotating art exhibits and exclusive partnerships with leading artists, museums and non-for-profits. It provides a unique opportunity for all to immerse in the art world by keeping all works on view 24/7 and completely free to the public.

About Contessa Gallery
Founded in 1999 in Cleveland, Contessa Gallery is a Fine Art Dealers Association Member (FADA) that offers high-quality artworks and art acquisition counsel to collectors, museums and institutions. Coupled with a strong commitment to service and connoisseurship, the gallery has developed a local, national and international following and a reputation for integrity and excellence. While many galleries focus on artist representation and promotion, Contessa Gallery is dedicated to assisting collectors in developing collections that have deep personal meaning. It encourages clients to view their collections as a legacy to be passed down through generations of family or to museums. Contessa Gallery is owned by founder Steven Hartman, president of the Board of Directors for FADA. He has won several art industry awards and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Art World News magazine. For more information, visit www.contessagallery.com.

About Sagamore South Beach

Sagamore South Beach has been a destination for both locals and tourists alike since the Art Deco District was created in the 1940s. Located at 1671 Collins Avenue in the heart of South Beach, the 101-room hotel, with an ample number of suites, boasts some of the largest standard rooms in the area. The oceanfront boutique hotel is surrounded by history, culture and the city’s trendiest restaurants, shopping and nightlife, creating the ultimate setting for the ongoing series #SagamoreIsArt. Sagamore ownership, led by Ronit Neuman, is committed to offering a multicultural selling platform that supports and builds partnerships with local and international organizations that work together to promote the growth of everything art-related. For more information, visit www.sagamoresouthbeach.com or follow @sagamorehotel on Facebook and Instagram.

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Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition

Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition
Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition

Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition

Founding Artistic Directors Vladimir Issaev and Yanis Pikieris are excited to announce their sixth consecutive edition of the Miami International Ballet Competition, to be held from January 25 to January 29, 2023, at their usual venue Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater.

La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición
La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición

After coming back to live theater last year, MIBC is committed to persevere the 2023 edition with more than 100 selected participants, from 9 to 24 years old, coming from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Panama, Ukraine, Colombia, El Salvador, Japan, and the United States.
Issaev and Pikieris, the Founding Artistic Directors, established Miami International Ballet Competition’s mission to provide a unique, positive environment where young dancers will show the best of their abilities while making connections and gaining new opportunities to nurture their careers and professional training.

La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición
La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición

Participants are divided into four age divisions and three categories: Individual, Pas de Deux, and Ensemble. The Jury will encompass a group of renowned ballet masters and directors, including Rubén Martín Cintas from American Ballet Theater, Ivy Chung from Asia Ballet Academy, Jennifer Kronenberg from Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, Elisabetta Hertel from Florence, Italy (where an Open of MIBC is going to happen in March), Kenichi Soki, from Soki Ballet in Tokyo, Victoria Schneider from The Harid Conservatory, Miao Zong, from the Ballet Opera du Rhin, Gentry George, professor at the New World School of the Arts and representing Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Ettiene Diaz, faculty at The Rock School for Dance Education.

La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición
La Competencia Internacional de Ballet de Miami (MIBC) Regresa en su Sexta Edición

Additional to providing their qualifications, the jury will be part of the international faculty leading the educational component and master classes alongside the artistic directors.
Other guests include Mary Carmen Catoya from Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida and Scholarship Partners Roberto Forleo from Florida Ballet and Philip Broomhead from Orlando Ballet School.
Karina Gonzalez y Connor Welsh, Principal dancers at Houston Ballet, Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, and Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida are coming to share the stage with
the awarded dancers at The Miami International Ballet Celebration to conclude the exciting week of events, The performance will begin approximately at 3:30 PM on Sunday, January 29 after the awards ceremony.

By virtue of The City of North Miami Beach, all competition rounds, and the Miami International Ballet Celebration will be open and free to the public. The Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater is located at 17011 NE 19th Ave., North Miami Beach, FL 33162. Parking is free.
This program is sponsored by the City of North Miami Beach and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information, visit our website at www.miamiibc.org or follow us on Instagram and Facebook @miamiibc.

Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition
Miami International Ballet Competition to Host Its Sixth Consecutive Edition
Perez Art Museum PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami

MEG COGBURN. DESCENT INTO ILLUMINATED DREAM

Judgment from the Tarot Series, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

MEG COGBURN. DESCENT INTO ILLUMINATED DREAM

By Milagros Bello, PhD*

Meg Cogburn visually interprets biblical figures, ancestral religions, and anthropological practices as rituals of regeneration. The works present syncretic combinations of symbolic cryptic references that partake from the Christian and Sufi languages to Vodou Cosmograms and Tarot imagery. They perform as sacred figures of astral forces as grounds of metamorphosis, self-transformation, and rebirth. The paintings reflect on human struggles in contemporary civilization, womanhood and women battles, and our radical social changes, attuning to hopeful visions of regeneration and spiritual enlightenment.

Descent Into Illuminated Dream, 2019 Acrylic and Collage
on Canvas
Descent Into Illuminated Dream, 2019 Acrylic and Collage on Canvas

Her paintings are sites for transitions from the celestial to the terrestrial and vice versa; they are sites for indagating the occult and the meta real; lands for discoveries and gestalts for the senses of life. Cogburn works are made of hermetic substances, leading into wonders and marvels.

The Hanged Man, from the Tarot Series, 2019, Acrylic on
Canvas
The Hanged Man, from the Tarot Series, 2019, Acrylic on Canvas

Their imaginary correlate and interlace as liminal spaces of inner worlds intertwining matter and meaning of esoteric allures. Meg Cogburn’s work does not contrive reality, but it reveals the domain of the subconscious and its allegorical narratives. Archetypal figures, emblematic civilization symbols; enneagrams, mandalas, spirals, as sacred geometries interlace the invisible forces of the universe in its micro and macro cosmic dimensions.

White Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Series, 2020
White Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series, 2020

Cogburn extracts the substance of her works from her dreams and her personal life experiences as well from her investigations of ancient civilizations, cultural symbols, and religious documents. She appropriates them generating deep avocations of humanity. The pictorial scenes map out figures of ample associations.

Red Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series,
2020 Acrylic on Canvas
Red Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas

Aligned, among others, with the doings of Surrealist women, Cogburn reminds us of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini in her search for self-expression. Cogburn ponders on her life passages and struggles, exorcizing them with intensity and temper.

Black Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Series, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas
Black Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas

For her, painting is a spiritual practice.
Her approach to painting goes through diluted, atmospheric brushstrokes, twisting and elongating them with energetic touches. The anatomical figures are intentionally unfinished, showing a singular rawness and a cryptic naïveté. Their enigmatic allure is enhanced by black eyes devoid of emotions and connected to unnamable realms. The colors, constructed with a free mixture of primary and secondary pigments, have an impasto-like appearance, and a crude and coarse look.

Pale Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series,
2020 Acrylic on Canvas
Pale Horse from the Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas

Cogburn cuts out on following any academic or post-academic procedures. Her tactic is to frontally project flat-plane and compact scenarios superimposed on one another. Symbolic geometries overlay on the composition to enhance the contraposing forces of the figures.

Blue Burka, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas
Blue Burka, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

Cogburn’s paintings portray auras of mystery in reflecting on the inscrutability of life.
There are works that establish key paradigms of consciousness and understandings. In Descent into Illuminated Dream, she recalls a dream of her sinking head-first into dark waters. The scene presents a body of a woman surrounded by blue waters with sea snakes looking upwards (in the absence of her head). Her body shows singular inscriptions of figures of Mexican game Loteria cards. Spiders, sculls, scorpions, fashion women, and a drunken man allegorize society though Mexican imagery.

Becoming, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas
Becoming, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

The Hanged Man” is based on the same Tarot card, and it alludes, as Cogburn says, to “ultimate surrender to fate, sacrifice, to the greater good, martyrdom…”. The figure in the card is interpreted here as a pregnant woman, Eva, inverted, and hanging from the tree of knowledge of the biblical Genesis. At the foot of the tree, there are unborn babies, nourishing in their latent condition from the roots of the tree. There is here a subtle reflection on motherhood and maternity.

The Crossroads, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas
The Crossroads, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

The Blue Burka, recalling another dream, depicts a colossus walking over the streets on fire of the city of Kabul; on the colossus head, there is a djiin, a supernatural spirit personifying the artist herself, dwelling in a spiritual dimension; it serves as a guiding spirit for the resurrection of womanhood in the Islamic culture.

The Fool, from the Tarot Series, 2019 Acrylic on
Canvas
The Fool, from the Tarot Series, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

The polyptych Four Horses of the Apocalypse Series, based on the Book of Revelation of the Apocalypse of St John of Patmos, summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses, announcing the end of times and the ultimate moment of divine judgment. They were created during the pandemic quarantine, in the artist’s studio in Miami Beach as a meditation of these turbulent timesin which society and life itself were put to the outmost.

Nobody 2019 Acrylic on Canvas
Nobody 2019 Acrylic on Canvas

The four paintings sum up the Covid crisis via interpreting the biblical riders through a personal visual interpretation in which she portrays the plague, the fear, the panic, the social protests, the violence that are enthroned in society. The artist expresses: “I was cloistered in my studio, reflecting on how historical global tragedy often mirrors the allegory of the biblical arrival of the Apocalypse.

Bitcoin Monkey, 2022 Drawing
Bitcoin Monkey, 2022 Drawing
The World from the Tarot Series, 2021Drawng
The World from the Tarot Series, 2021Drawng
Judgment from the Tarot Series, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas
The Eightfold Fence, 2020 Acrylic and Collage on Canvas

Meg Cogburn is an American artist from Miami Beach, Florida. She is a lifelong painter, printmaker, and costumer who has primarily practiced architecture and design for the last 20 years. Meg graduated with honors from The University of Texas in Austin School of Architecture, where she also studied printmaking and enjoyed membership with Flatbed Press. Her paintings are inspired by l’esprit de l’age and by a compelling need to communicate societal critique through her experience as a woman. A devotee of Catalan Surrealism, Spanish Baroque, and Austrian Expressionism, Meg describes her artistic voice as a fusion of European Formalism and Primitivism, a marriage of her Dutch and Native American heritage. Meg is an accomplished intaglio and stone lithography printmaker, and has also exhibited her watercolor and acrylic paintings, ink drawings, and pencil illustrations. Her paintings have been included in the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Miami Art Week/Art Basel, and several curated shows at MIA Curatorial Projects in Miami. Her work was included in 2022 in “Americans. Current Imaginaries” at the European Cultural Center (ECC/Venice) curated by curator Milagros Bello, PhD from April 20 to November in the context of the 59th Venice Venice Biennale. In 2023, Jan.28 through Feb 26, she presents her solo show “Descent into Illuminated Dream” of paintings and drawings at MIA Curatorial Projects, Miami Florida. Currently she is based in Florida and Puerto Rico. Meg Cogburn is represented by MIA CURATORIAL Projects.

Curator Dr. Milagros Bello holds a PhD in Sociology with a doctoral thesis in Sociology of Art from the Sorbonne University (Paris VII-Jussieu), and a master’s in art history, from the Sorbonne University (Universite de Paris I) both in Paris, France. She obtained a B.A. in Psychology, specializing in Clinical Psychology, from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and followed master’s courses in Family and Individual Counseling in her home country, Venezuela. Dr. Bello is an art critic member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), and a member of the National Federation of Psychologists of Venezuela. She is an independent curator and currently directs MIA Curatorial Projects (former Curator’s Voice Art Projects founded in 2010 in Wynwood Art District, Miami). From 2010 to the present, Dr. Bello has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art nationally and internationally. Notably, in April-November 2022, as part of the 59th Venice Biennale, she curated the exhibition “Americanos. Current Imaginaries”, which was on display until November 2022 at the European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy. On June 30, 2022 she gave a lecture on the same topic at Personal Structures/Reflection, at the European Cultural Center, in Venice, Italy. She is a lecturer at museums and art institutes; art writer for local and international art magazines, and former editor-in-chief of the art magazine Arte Al Dia International. For fourteen years, from 2000 to 2014, she has taught as a professor of art in various theoretical areas of specialization, such as Critical Theories, Art History, History of Modern and Contemporary Photography, Sociology, graduate and undergraduate levels at US universities, Florida International University (FIU), Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Miami International University (The Art Institute/Miami), and Istituto Marangoni/Miami. She is currently the director and chief curator of MIA Curatorial Projects in Miami. Dr. Bello is a mentor and motivational coach for artists. @milagrosbellobcurator @curatorsvoice E: [email protected]

Perez Art Museum PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami

NORTH MIAMI 2nd ANNUAL CARIBE ARTS FEST

Anunaku's Body Adornments
Anunaku's Body Adornments

NORTH MIAMI COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO HOST 2nd ANNUAL CARIBE ARTS FEST

The North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency will host a multi-genre arts festival promoting the rich cultural diversity of the Caribbean and the Americas on February 4th

The North Miami CRA is excited to announce the 2nd annual Caribe Arts Fest taking place on Saturday, February 4th, 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at Griffing Park in North Miami. Following last year’s wildly successful event, 2023’s Caribe Arts Fest will continue to feature a multi-genre art festival celebrating the arts of the Caribbean and the Americas.

This family-friendly experience will showcase a wide variety of talents and creations representing and encompassing the culture, essence, and creativity of the Caribbean and the Americas. Last year, the celebration featured GRAMMY nominated Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans. This year, attendees can look forward to GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominated bilingual Latin band Locos Por Juana, reggae group BACHACO, and esteemed Haitian band Harmonik, who will take the stage at 8:00 PM to close out the festival. The day will also highlight more than 40 visual and musical artists showcasing their talents spanning from contemporary and classic to the unconventional and eccentric.

The North Miami CRA is proud to continue the tradition of showcasing the beautiful creativity and diversity the North Miami community has to offer through public art programs and local businesses.

“On the heels of an outstanding inaugural 2022 Caribe Arts Fest, we are thrilled to welcome visitors and residents back to North Miami on Saturday, February 4th, to celebrate the vast culture and essence of the Caribbean and Latin American community,” said North Miami CRA Executive Director, Neil Shiver. “We are extremely proud of the diversity the North Miami community holds, and we strive to continue to host events and festivals that draw more people to experience the beauty of North Miami.”

North Miami’s beautifully renovated public space, Griffing Park, will act as the main stage for the event’s major headliner performances, a wide variety of local artisan vendors, delicious food offerings provided by local food trucks, and an exciting kid-zone where children and parents can create their own artistic crafts. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets to enjoy a wonderful day in the park.

In addition to taking in the sights, attendees can also to take in the public art presented across Griffing Park. The park spotlights locally crafted and uniquely beautified utility boxes, which are part of the North Miami CRA’s Public Arts program. This initiative seeks to replace blight with bright and enrich the lives of North Miami residents by curating locally designed art installations throughout the community’s public spaces.

The Caribe Arts Fest will take place on Saturday, February 4th12:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at North Miami’s Griffing Park (1220 NW Griffing Blvd Miami, FL 33161). The festival is FREE and open to all ages. Attendees are encouraged to register online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caribe-arts-fest-2023-tickets-476583503087.

A selection of Caribe Arts Fest featured artists are listed below and a full program can be found below and on the official event website: http://caribeartsfest.com.

Locos por Juana

Locos por Juana is a GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominated bilingual band, most notably recognized for their high energy live performances and unique fusion of reggae, funk, cumbia, salsa, and rock. The band, featuring Itawe Correa as its charismatic lead vocalist, talented guitarist Mark Kondrat, innovative drummer Javier Delgado, and electrifying bass player David Pransky, write and produce all their own music. Voted Best Latin Band in 2017 by Miami New Times, this hard-gigging group is booked exclusively via Madison House Presents. The band recently collaborated with Zumba founder Beto Perez on the explosive dance track, “Te Quiero Ver.” The song has become a global streaming and YouTube viral phenomenon.

BACHACO

Since 2007 BACHACO has performed over 300 concerts from Argentina to Canada sharing stage and performing at the same events and festivals as other big names in the reggae and world music scenes such as Stephen Marley and the Marley Brothers, Natiruts from Brazil, Israel Vibration, Toots & The Maytals, Tribal Seeds, Ozomatli, Luciano, Easy Star All-stars, Midnite, Cultura Profetica, Gondwana, Los Cafres, Los Pericos, Bahiano, Alika, Jarabe de Palo, Los Amigos Invisibles, WAR, King Chango and many more.

BACHACO was conceived and founded by Venezuela Singer-Songwriter Edilberto ‘Eddy’ Morillo in Miami, FL where he regularly meets and collaborates with musicians from everywhere. BACHACO is a true multi-cultural experience. Their music naturally flows in English and Spanish, but the true language BACHACO speaks is the vibe they transmit: High Energy Groove!

Harmonik

Since its grand premiere on August 15, 2008, the Harmonik buzz has crossed borders beyond Florida, Haiti, and across the United States to cities such as Boston, Atlanta, and New York. In just a few months after their grand premiere, this group from Miami quickly became the official boy band of the Haitian music industry.

In 2019, the band released its studio album called “Respè,” with three major hit singles titled “Ou detenn sou mwen”, “Existe,” and “Denye Chans.” In that same year, Harmonik released a live album of its sold-out performance at Casino de Paris.

JAHFE

Jahfe is a crowd-pleasing Miami reggae band that has opened for many of the biggest names in the business including Damian Marley, Steel Pulse and Toots and the Maytals. Jahfe are an eclectic group, composed of heavyweight session players and fronted by Esther Fortune; a commanding reggae frontwoman who, like her band, is capable of effortlessly shifting from rock steady to roots, to dub and back again.

Jahfe also allows elements of rock and hip-hop to influence their sound, which rounds out their eclectic appeal. Get a taste of Jahfe’s infectious vibe and world conscious view in this clip of the band performing live.

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About the North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency (NMCRA)

The North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency is an independent government agency tasked with eliminating slum and blight in the heart of downtown North Miami. The NMCRA does this by using increases in taxable values to transform the area into one that again contributes to the overall health of the community.  This transformation occurs through various grants and incentives initiatives including: Commercial Rehabilitation and Beautification Grants; Public Private Partnership Developments; Infrastructure Improvements; Neighborhood Improvement Programs; Affordable, Workforce, Market Rate, Luxury and Mixed Income Housing; Affordable/Workforce Housing Development & Renovation; Transportation and Transit Developments.

Perez Art Museum PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami

ENTREVISTA A FRANCISCO CERON/EL ALMA DE LA CIUDAD

Francisco Ceron Coca cola
Francisco Ceron Coca cola

Por Dra. Milagros Bello/crítica de arte/curadora*

Francisco Cerón propone una obra figurativa contemporánea de referencias urbanas. Su trabajo recompone intertextualmente los iconos de las ciudades que visita en una mezcla de la cultura pop de Estados Unidos, el arte precolombino y la figurativa del arte colombiano.
En un compendio entre lo clásico y lo contemporáneo, su obra proyecta descomposiciones neo-cubistas, en su manera de fracturar y recomponer las figuras sígnicas de la ciudad, pero igualmente se nutre de imágenes de capturas instantáneas, creando nuevos patrones figurativos que emblematizan lo urbano y a la sociedad actual dominada por el consumo y los iconos comerciales.
Cerón nació en la ciudad de Pasto, Colombia en 1968. Estudia en la Escuela de Bellas Artes Antonio María Valencia de la ciudad de Santiago de Cali, Colombia y en 1993, obtiene el título de Diseño Gráfico. En ese mismo ano funda en Cali su compañía de diseño gráfico, “Objetivo Grafico”. En el año 2000 se muda a Estados Unidos y se radica en la ciudad de Miami, Florida, donde comienza a experimentar con medios del arte. En el año 2007 estudia Mercadeo y Negocios en la Universidad de Miami. En el 2008, decide lanzarse como artista visual a nivel profesional y encontrando en el Pop Art un espacio idóneo para sus creaciones gracias a la naturaleza gráfica de su obra. Este mismo año exhibe en galerías y eventos, y presenta su primera exhibición individual en el Unilatina International College del condado de Davie. Paralelamente Francisco Cerón continua con su empresa de diseño y mercadeo. Obtiene una especialización en Neuro Mercadeo en la Universidad de Barcelona, España y recibe su Doctorado de la Universidad de California en estudios del subconsciente e hipnosis clínica. Ha participado en importantes ferias y museos internacionales como Palm Beach Art Fair, Art Wynwood, AQUA Art Fair, en Florida; Beijing Art Expo y Shanghai Art Fair en China; Art Monaco en Monaco; World Tour Exhibition en Londres, UK; International Art Fair, Dubai; Museo de Arte de Monterrey, Casa Grau, Colombia. La obra de Francisco Cerón captura el “alma de las ciudades” a través del uso antitético de los medios visuales. Vive en la actualidad en Cali, Colombia

Francisco Ceron-Roma
Francisco Ceron Roma

Milagros Bello: En sus comienzos, ¿cómo fueron tus primeras experiencias artísticas?
¿Cómo se te reveló el que eres un artista?
Francisco Cerón: Desde muy temprana edad me destacaba por mis dibujos en comparación a mis compañeros de preescolar y más tarde en la escuela ya eran dibujos más complejos y elaborados, creo que desde esa época ya había decidido lo que quería ser. Mientras los niños de preescolar hacían dibujos sencillos de arbolitos y casitas, los míos eran vistas panorámicas de ciudades con helicópteros en primer plano, naves espaciales, globos, aviones entre otros detalles.
Mi historia se remonta a mi infancia, nací con el tendón de Aquiles más corto en mi pie izquierdo y por esa razón fui sometido a diversas cirugías de niño. Por supuesto esto me impidió caminar por un largo periodo de tiempo, pero en este tiempo solo podía estar sentado y lo mejor que pudo hacer mi familia por mí, fue regalarme lápices, colores y papel y eso lo cambio todo.  Se que estaba allí sentado todo el tiempo, pero mi pensamiento y mi creatividad nunca estuvieron allí, trascendían con cada dibujo, viajando fuera de esas cuatro paredes, visitando mundos inimaginables, creando a mis anchas y perfeccionando día a día mis trazos y mis habilidades como artista.
Soy un curioso por naturaleza y eso me llevo de la pintura a explorar en la tercera dimensión de las esculturas y de allí al fascinante montaje de las instalaciones. Creo que el artista no se debe quedar en un solo plano.

Francisco Ceron-New York City
Francisco Ceron New York City

MB: ¿Como fueron los inicios de tu carrera artística?
FC: Al momento de encontrar la carrera más afín a mis gustos me tope con el diseño gráfico en el Conservatorio de Bellas Artes de Cali. Este lugar era un centro de cultura total, teníamos ballet, artes escénicas, artes plásticas, música y diseño gráfico, pero lo mejor es que todas las carreras tenían que ver una con la otra y en ese ambiente de arte, cultura y bohemia me conecte con el arte visual.
Los que me conocen me dicen que nunca crecí y que aun soy ese niño dibujando a sus anchas, perdido en su propio mundo y en su propio tiempo, creando e inventando sin parar. Soy un
apasionado del arte y la creatividad. Mi espíritu necesita estar creando e inventando,compartiendo mi visión a los demás. Es lo que vine a hacer a este mundo.
Mis valores, mis pensamientos y mi actitud están en cada una de mis obras, siempre positivas,vibrantes y llenas de vida y de color.  Creo que el artista pone su energía en su obra y esta obracobra vida y esa es la razón por la que cada obra tiene su propio sentimiento.

Francisco Ceron-Puerto Resistencia
Francisco Ceron Puerto Resistencia

MB: ¿Cuáles son los principales artistas con los que te identificas en el arte? ¿Por qué?
Explícanos
Mis referencias de impacto se remiten a las vanguardias del siglo 20, elsiglo donde me forme.
Aunque previamente, Van Gogh me retumbo visualmente en su crudo y frontal uso de los colores y del impasto. Pero Picasso fue una de las grandes referencias para mi. Me conecte con el por su agudeza visual y su capacidad de crear etapas, siempre innovando sin limitaciones ni medidas. Para mí fue un artista de ruptura de normas, un artista sin miedo a crear y determinado a creer en el sin importarle nadie ni nada. El cubismo rompió con la noción de composición, y eso es una radical referencia en mi obra. La libertad en que Picasso recompone un rostro o una naturaleza muerta me dejan fascinado. Su geometrismo radical fue una pauta artística para mí. Luego otros modelos de ruptura de los sesenta me impactaron igualmente. Andy Warhol con su manejo grafico de las figuras, sus técnicas de impresión virales y su uso de colores planos contrastados. Me impresiono su osadía de crear anti-temas, como la lata Campbell, o la Marilyn cromática que dejo de ser real, para volverse una ilusión referencial de una vieja fotografía encontrada por Warhol en un periódico; Roy Lichtenstein me asombro con su uso de los comics me mostro nuevas vías de expresión; Keith Haring con su simpleza gráfica, me hizo reflexionar sobre como las líneas repetitivas e interactivas pueden evocar poderosos mundos visuales. Con Takashi Murakami entendí como el legado del Pop Americano tomo cuerpo en las nuevas expresiones vanguardistas del Japón. Estos creadores abrieron nuevas puertas permitiéndome hacer profundas reflexiones en los métodos del arte.

Francisco Ceron-NY 19
Francisco Ceron NY 19

MB: Has pasado por diferentes etapas en tu carrera artística, desde la ilustración, la pintura, la escultura, la fotografía, la instalación creando diferentes ópticas creativas. En los momentos estas creando una etapa que esta más bien dentro del terreno del arte digital.
Háblanos de esta obra digital.
FC: Creo que esta etapa llego en el momento justo para sacarle el mejor provecho. Después de haber viajado por diferentes lugares no podía dejar pasar la oportunidad de mostrarle al mundo mi visión de cada ciudad visitada. Así que un día decidí hacer algo con los miles de fotografías guardadas dispuesto a comprimirlas todas y formar una sola imagen que reflejara el espíritu de cada ciudad. El “alma de la ciudad” como tú lo llamas.
Al principio parecía una tarea imposible sin pasar por el clásico collage, pero poco a poco se fue revelando la estructura que me permitiría reconstruir cada ciudad a la manera de un rompecabezas visual en el que inserto fragmentos de diferentes fotos tomadas en la ciudad que visitaba. Fue un proceso en el tiempo. Decidía donde iba a ir, al llegar a la ciudad empezaba a recorrerla sin un plan específico, descubriendo rincones, calles, personas, sucesos, vitrinas, pancartas, aguas, puentes; todo aquello que aparecía selectivamente ante mis ojos. Era un recorrido visual de descubrimiento libre; visite los sitios típicos turísticos, los retrate, pero también me adentre en sitios inesperados, vi ángulos nuevos. El proceso en cada ciudad fue una experiencia artística pero también fue una experiencia existencial. Significo conectarme no solo con las apariencias materiales sino con las esencias de los sitios visitados. Si se quiere fue el ojo del fotógrafo, que recorto, encuadro, capturo, pero también fue la intuitiva búsqueda de encontrar ángulos no vistos, que me guio para concentrar la visión de conjunto que definiera esa ciudad .

Francisco Ceron-Pasto
Francisco Ceron Pasto

MB: Esta serie digital sobre el alma de las ciudades, que tu titulas “City Icons”, tu trabajas la imagen intertexto, combinando lo icónico de la ciudad con los descubrimientos imprevistos. Explícanos más sobre tu método que va más allá del simple collage.
FC: En mi obra de “City Icons”, visito cada ciudad y extraigo de ella su esencia en fotografías, su color, su sabor, su música, su gente, sus medios de transporte, su arquitectura, fauna, naturaleza y detalles que pasan desapercibidos por sus habitantes como las tapas de alcantarillas, señales de tránsito, gráficos, avisos de publicidad, frases escritas en paredes, entre otras tantas cosas que componen la vida grafica de esa ciudad y por su puesto los lugares más turísticos y visitados.

Posteriormente reviso todas las fotografías y comienzo a crear una imagen inédita de esa ciudad. Cientos de fotografías digitales se comprimen entre siluetas, formas, detalles, fondos, colores y texturas hasta lograr la construcción de una ciudad visible y reconocible en su esencia, llena de detalles que el espectador reconoce y con la cual se reconecta, una ciudad que relata su historia gráficamente, en colores y formas pero que a la vez no es ni unitaria ni homogénea. El proceso fue seleccionar de las miles de tomas, aquellas que pudieran encajar en el “puzzle” visual que quería lograr. Utilizando diferentes técnicas digitales fui recomponiendo, ensamblando, estructurando, fragmentos creando un nuevo conjunto visual.
Esto es un proceso continuo, que ira generando nuevas direcciones. Aun siento que estoy redescubriendo esta técnica, y sé que aún falta mucho por crear y por compartir.

Francisco Ceron-MIA
Francisco Ceron MIA

MB: Cuáles son las ciudades que más te han emocionado. Cuéntanos una experiencia impactante relacionada con tu creación.
FC: Sin duda fue una de las últimas creaciones, “Puerto Resistencia” realizada en Cali, Colombia. Cali es mi ciudad amada, Cali esta arraigada en el corazón, y esta obra que representa muchos sentimientos encontrados, fue trascendental por su importancia social e histórica en la ciudad.
“Puerto Resistencia” transcribe artísticamente un suceso que jamás se debe volver a repetir.
Entre abril y julio del 2021 ocurrió un estallido social y político en Colombia el cual pude vivir de primera mano en la Ciudad de Cali. Vi todo el ambiente de guerra, las confrontaciones, el malestar, que se generó. La ciudad estaba combustionada. En el sitio de Puerto Rellena ahora llamado Puerto Resistencia se levantó una escultura de entre 13 y 15 metros de altura, una escultura en forma de antebrazo y mano, basada en el monumento del Holocausto en Miami y que representa la mano de Kay Kimi Krachi, dios Maya de la batalla. En la mano una pancarta que lleva la palabra “Resiste” como el símbolo de resistencia de muchas personas, y en homenaje a toda la sangre que corrió en Cali. Puerto Resistencia fue el uno de los sitios de mayor concentración de los manifestantes. Para unos es la representación del horror de la muerte, la guerra, el desengaño, la mentira, la perdida, la hipocresía, la pobreza, el abuso, el poder y todos los sentimientos bajos humanos que se pueden acarrear en momentos críticos históricos y sociales como lo fue este; para otros, es la representación de la lucha, de la esperanza, del cambio y de la resistencia. Dos corrientes de fuertes emociones que acompañaron ese momento. Entre el dolor de la pérdida de vidas y la desesperanza, y a la vez el sentimiento de esperanza y logro. En mi obra, me base en la fotografía del monumento, y agregue en el trasfondo, rostros humanos y escenas que simbolizan el espíritu del hombre ante sus vicisitudes. En esta obra capture el momento del suceso, la esencia social y humana de lo que se vivió. Como artista, esta obra represento otro tipo de indagación visual, capture la esencia de una ciudad en combustión y crisis.
MB: Has desarrollado objetos utilitarios en los que has incluido imágenes de tus obras.
Háblanos de ello.

Francisco Ceron-Medellin
Francisco Ceron Medellin

FC: A este proyecto de objetos artísticos lo titulo “Lienzo en Movimiento” ya que, siguiendo las pautas de Andy Warhol, Keith Haring y de Takashi Murakami, he creado una impronta de mi obra en objetos de viaje como bolsos y maletas. Estos llevan impresa la imagen de mis ciudades, y “viajan” junto con los viajeros a sus diferentes destinos. Estas maletas fueron compradas por personas normales, para viajar, para desplazarse. Estas maletas aparecen espontáneamente en aeropuertos, calles, hoteles, casas y ciudades, como lienzos en movimiento proyectados en los diferentes ambientes, transformando el paisaje, y sorprendiendo a los transeúntes quienes descubren los indicios de las ciudades, proyectados en formas inesperadas. “Lienzo en Movimiento” tiene la finalidad de expandir el arte a otros sitios fuera de las galerías y museos.

Francisco Ceron-911
Francisco Ceron 911

MB: ¿Cuales son tus planes al futuro?
FC: En los momentos continúo creando nuevas propuestas para la serie “City Icons”. Sigo en el proceso de re-inventar imágenes. Igual sigo adentrándome en nuevos medios tecnológicos.
Para el futuro próximo sigo mis viajes a ciudades icónicas del mundo y también expandiéndome hacia al Medio Oriente y a los países asiáticos. Pero llevo otra óptica, crear foco en la ecología.

Me interesa hacer el énfasis en el medio ambiente y los cambios climáticos, ahora innegables.
Mi obra debe convertirse en una voz de conciencia de nuestra situación actual. www.ceronart.com https://ceronart.com/exhibiciones/

Francisco Ceron-911
Francisco Ceron City Hall

***La Curadora Dra. Milagros Bello es Doctora en Sociología con tesis doctoral en Sociología del Arte por la Universidad de la Sorbona (París VII-Jussieu), y un Master en Historia del Arte, por la Universidad de la Sorbona (Universite de París I) ambos en París, Francia. Obtuvo la licenciatura en Psicología, especialidad en Psicología Clínica, en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, y siguió cursos de maestría en Asesoramiento familiar e individual en su país de origen, Venezuela. La Dra. Bello es crítica de arte miembro de la Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA), y miembro de la Federación Nacional de Psicólogos de Venezuela. Es comisaria independiente y actualmente dirige MIA Curatorial Projects (antiguo Curator’s Voice Art Projects fundado en 2010 en Wynwood Art District, Miami). Desde 2010 hasta la actualidad, la Dra. Bello ha comisariado numerosas exposiciones de arte contemporáneo a nivel nacional e internacional. Cabe destacar que, en abril-noviembre de 2022, en el marco de la 59ª
Bienal de Venecia, comisarió la exposición “Americanos. Imaginarios actuales”, que se exhibió hasta noviembre de 2022 en el Centro Cultural Europeo de Venecia, Italia. El 30 de junio de 2022 dio una conferencia sobre el mismo tema en Personal Structures/Reflection, en el Centro Cultural Europeo, en Venecia, Italia. Es conferencista en museos e institutos de arte; escritora de arte para revistas de arte locales e internacionales, y ex redactora jefe de la revista de arte Arte Al Dia International. Durante catorce años, de 2000 a 2014, ha enseñado como profesora de arte en diversas áreas teóricas de especialización, tales como Teorías Críticas, Historia del Arte, Historia de la Fotografía Moderna y Contemporánea, Sociología, niveles de postgrado y pregrado en universidades estadounidenses, la Florida International University (FIU), Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Miami International University (The Art Institute/Miami), y el Istituto Marangoni/Miami. En la actualidad, es directora y comisaria jefe de MIA Curatorial Projects en Miami. La Dra. Bello es mentora y coach motivadora de artistas.

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Reyna Grande “Corrido de amor y gloria”

escritora Reyna Grande
escritora Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande presenta la novela “Corrido de amor y gloria”

Romance y política en un relato que ilumina un momento casi olvidado de la historia de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. “Quiero que mi novela ayude a recordar que los mexicanos no somos forasteros en Estados Unidos”, declara la autora, Reyna Grande, que cruzó la frontera como indocumentada en la niñez. Para la actriz y activista latina Eva Longoria, “Corrido de amor y gloria” es “valiente”, mientras que la escritora Julia Alvarez -autora de “El tiempo de las mariposas”- califica a la novela como “grandiosa”. El libro está disponible en tiendas y en plataformas digitales. De inmigrante indocumentada a autora premiada, Reyna Grande es una escritora méxico-americana, residente en California, que ha escrito seis libros y ha co-editado uno. Es autora de las memorias bestsellers, “La distancia entre nosotros” y la secuela, “La búsqueda de un sueño”. Sus otras obras incluyen las novelas “A través de cien montañas”, “Bailando con mariposas”, y su más reciente “Corrido de amor y gloria”, una novela sobre la invasión norteamericana. Reyna también es co-editora de una antología de y sobre migrantes indocumentados llamada “Donde Somos Humanos: Historias genuinas de migración, sobrevivencias, y renaceres”. Reyna ha recibido un American Book Award; el Premio Literario Aztlán; y en 2012 fue finalista de los prestigiosos Premios del Círculo Nacional de Críticos de Libros. En 2015 fue honrada con un Premio Luis Leal a la Distinción en Literatura Chicana/Latina; y en 2021 recibió el Premio Espíritu Latino. Nacida en Iguala, Guerrero, México, Reyna tenía dos años cuando su padre migró a Estados Unidos a buscar trabajo. Su madre se fue al norte dos años después, dejando a Reyna y sus hermanos en México. En 1985, cuando Reyna tenía nueve años, dejó Iguala para hacer su propio viaje al norte y cruzó a pie la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.

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