CIDAV

Centro para el Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales de Santo Domingo

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Misión:

Investigar, fomentar y promover las artes visuales dominicanas. Convirtiéndose en un referente del debate teórico de la investigación y del diálogo del arte contemporáneo en Santo Domingo. Un espacio único en el cual las artes visuales dominicanas jueguen el papel que le corresponde en el ámbito internacional y caribeño.

Objetivos:

*Elevar el nivel del las Artes Visuales en de la República Dominicana a través de intercambios con artistas e instituciones nacionales y extranjeras.

*Crear un programa de Artistas en Residencia en Santo Domingo.

*Gestionar programas de becas y fondos para artistas, curadores, historiadores, y críticos de las artes visuales que deseen venir al país a desarrollar proyectos.

*Ayudar artistas locales a gestionar residencias y becas en el extranjero donde puedan continuar su formación.

*Desarrollar programas de charlas y talleres con el fin de elevar el nivel de análisis de nuestros artistas.

*Mostrar artistas visuales locales y extranjero que tenga una obra de investigación, experimental, o alternativa, que no encuentren cabida en las salas convencionales de exhibición.

*Servir de vinculo para otras instituciones publicas y privadas, del país, y del extranjero, tales como embajadas y ONGs que deseen trabajar con artistas locales, fomentando el intercambios con otros centros del la zona, con especial interés en la región del caribe.

*Crear un foro para a canalizar proyectos artísticos locales con la asesoría de técnicos en el área artística nacional e internacional, con el fin de evaluar y desarrollar proyectos en espacios públicos y culturales, dando apoyo a todas las instituciones que lo soliciten.

*Promover el arte dominicano a todos los niveles, tanto nacional como internacional, proporcionando soporte logístico a las propuestas de artistas nacionales que sean seleccionados a participar en eventos internacionales, tales como bienales y exhibiciones que involucren una presencia nacional.

*Crea un Banco de datos de artistas dominicanos que sirva de apoyo todos los especialistas e investigadores que lo necesiten.

Bernardo Pichardo # 62 Gazcue, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.

cidav.sto.dgo@gmail.com

Opening, 2 Sept. 2010

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"The House of My Friends"

“The house’s entire being would open up, faithful to our own being”

(Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics of Space)

Reentering the house of your memories, the house where you were born, you will look for the spaces in your head, the memories of dreams and the fundaments of your childhood. You will find that, although it’s smaller than you remembered, the entire structure is still infallibly present in your head. Due to your childhood memories it is a limited and at the same time more extended view, further than what the eye can see, a phenomenological labyrinth of inside and outside spaces and spots. Corners, niches, closets, drapes that used to hang from the windowpanes, little things that used to be standing around, you still see, smell and feel, but are not physically present anymore.

In an attempt to reclaim the house of your childhood one will inevitably concentrate on these details. Even by trying to ignore them or by giving the stripped spaces new meaning, the presence of what’s not there anymore will always stay in tact. Invisible drawers, chests and wardrobes reveal the content of your dreams, daydreams, memories, and you will always encounter those empty sites with great care.

To come back to Bachelard’s investigation of the poetics of space: “we know we feel calmer, and more confident when in the old home, the house we were born in, than we do in the houses on streets where we have only lived as transients”. All the facts mentioned before, the construction of that house, the construction of memories, constitute the solid base you sometimes long to return to. Even if it will never be the same as it is in your memories.

The shapes and spaces created by man as a shelter against the outside world and the memories that houses in objects that surround us play an important role in the work of visual artist Marcos Lora Read. For if “tracing the invisible”, as Jean Cocteau has defined the task of the poet, it is also there in the same density of metaphors and stanzas in Lora Read’s objects, books, sculptures and installations.

Houses on the other hand need the acknowledgement of people for them to survive. Abandoned houses loose their souls, the memories haunts them and they soon start to decay. That process goes even faster on an island surrounded by sun, salt and water or in the mountains where the salty dew is carried out to cover everything it can touch. To refurbish a space is to bring people in, to bring life to the house, it is longing for that. And the best thing for a house, next to bringing on new life, is to give new meaning to old memories and to create new ones that give it a future to look forward to.

CIDAV contemporary art space is opening it’s doors on the occasion of the First Caribbean Triennial in Santo Domingo. Its director, before mentioned visual artist Marcos Lora Read, is opening his old family house reconstructed as an independent contemporary space for the development of the visual arts, a home for art to dwell in, still bearing the daydreams and memories that came from the past. The House of My Friends is temporarily giving a home to the work of renowned fellow artists Marcos Lora Read encountered traveling all around the globe over the last 20 years and who became close friends. Sharing thoughts, dreams and contemplations on the Triennial’s theme on the fundamental changes that human presence brings forth to our environment. As philosopher and scientist Jacob Bronovsky tried to point out it is the artist that breaks down the fragmented view on the world that does damage to the actual, organic nature of the real world. According to Bronovski we must always bare in mind that we are "certainly not going to get the world right, because the basic assumption that [we] have made about dividing the world into the relevant and irrelevant is in fact a lie."

What better place to contemplate on regaining the los parts of those fragments than under the sheltering roof of a house with a history that is still alive…

Nancy Hoffmann.

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MLR

Dic. 16. (Works 90 -10)

MLR-Part I
MLR-Part II

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