14923: Minsky:Haitian Art Exhibit at Harvard-Ctr for Latin Am. Studies (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "tminsky@ix.netcom.com" <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>


Haitian Art Exhibit at Harvard   Feb 21, 2003 through August 2003
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University)
61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138


Carrefours/Crossroads
by  Marie-Hélène Cauvin [Montreal-based Haitian artist]
Feb 21, 2003 - August 30, 2003
Free and Open to the Public, 8:30 AM - 5 PM

(Please call 617-495-9797 to reserve school group visits)



In this series of paintings, Carrefours/Crossroads are places of
exploration and exploitation, remembered scars of reality and spirit.
At times with a brush, at times with a knife, contrasting fluid wash
with rough impasto, Cauvin constructs crossroads that serve as
meeting places for images of an enslaved past and an oppressed
present.

The viewer of the paintings and drawings gathered here is challenged
by the bold contrast of anonymity, sadness, and staged tableaux with
the lively abundance of Caribbean color and landscape. Human figures
appear deformed, drawn in states of disequilibrium, while the
constant image of water, of the sea, evokes the horrors of the Middle
Passage as well as the sadly current plight of Haitian refugees.

Marie-Hélène Cauvin studied Printmaking at Temple University and has
exhibited before in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Puerto
Rico, and several cities in the US. This is her first exhibition in
Boston.

For more information and a slide show of their photographs please
visit the  website at:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/events/artforum.html You can also
contact José Luis Falconi, Art Forum Coordinator, at (617) 495-9702
or via e-mail at falconi@fas.harvard.edu



This exhibit is presented under the auspices of the Center's Latin
American/Latino Art Forum and the Haitian Studies Initiative, and made
possible by the generous support of the Gustavo Brillembourg Memorial Fund.



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