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UNIVERSITY NEWS - JANUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
Photos available on request.
BOCA RATON, FL (January 8, 2004) --
Florida Atlantic University presents "Daniel Batalla and
Gustavo Serra: The Path of the School of the South." The
exhibition runs Friday, January 16 through Saturday,
February 21 in the Ritter Art Gallery on FAU's Boca Raton
campus, 777 Glades Road. The exhibition and all related
lectures and receptions are free and open to the public.
An opening reception and lecture
featuring art historian Cecilia de Torres will be held
Thursday, January 15 at 7 p.m. in General Classroom South
118, FAU Boca Raton campus. De Torres will explain the
impact of the work of Joaquin Torres-Garcia on this
generation of South American artists. Torres-Garcia, one of
Latin America's most important modern artists, returned to
his native Uruguay in 1934 after spending 43 years in
Europe. He established an art school that subsequently
developed an identifiable following of significant South
American artists now known as the "School of the South."
The exhibition features paintings by
Batalla and Serra, and also includes works by Torres-Garcia
and other Uruguayan artists who worked directly with
Torres-Garcia, including Augusto Torres, Francisco Matto
and Gonzalo Fonseca.
Batalla's paintings share a penchant
for geometric division that can be traced to the geometric
nature of Torres-Garcia's work. His paintings refer to the
world of signs, printed matter, cartoons and grafitti. Flat
in design, Batalla's works use thick paint and layering of
images via transparent areas of paint. Batalla was born in
1960 in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay and currently lives in
Montevideo, Uruguay. His work has been exhibited frequently
in Uruguay and Argentina.
Serra's paintings combine large
areas of deep color geometrically divided by sketchy lines
that often describe abstracted figures or environments. The
paintings suggest a calm and sumptuous dream world. They
focus on selected details rather than describing particular
spaces.
Serra was born in 1966 in
Montevideo, Uruguay where he still resides. His work has
been shown extensively in Uruguay, New York and most
recently with Daniel Batalla and Roberto Piriz at the
Uruguayan Embassy in Washington D.C.
Serra will give a gallery talk to
discuss his and other works in the exhibition on Wednesday,
January 21 at noon in the Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Boca
Raton campus.
There will also be a bilingual
reading of poetry and literature by Latin American literary
masters presented by graduate and undergraduate students
from FAU's Latin American Studies Program on Wednesday,
February 18 at 7 p.m. in the Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Boca
Raton campus.
"Daniel Batalla and Gustavo Serra:
The Path of the School of the South" is presented by the
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters School of
the Arts in collaboration with the University Galleries,
the Latin American Studies program and the Department of
Visual Arts and Art History as part of "Voices and Images
from Latin America," a series of exhibitions and programs
presented in association with the Latin American Studies
Program. The exhibition and related programs have been made
possible in part by the Florida Department of State
Division of Cultural Affairs; Florida Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts; The Palm Beach County
Cultural Council; and FAU Student government through
student activity fees.
T
he Ritter Art Gallery is open to the public Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday 12 to 4 p.m.; Wednesday 12 to 6 p.m.;
and Saturday 1 to 5 p.m. For further information, please
call the University Galleries at 561-297-2966 or visit www.
fau.edu/galleries.
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