by the El Reportero’s news services
The link between European and Mexican art will be displayed at the exhibition Los Modernos, open from today until April 3 at the National Art Museum in this capital.
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, head of the National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta), said that the works of the exhibition, with nine thematic clusters, will allow appreciating the dialogue between relevant creators.
Among the artists included in the exhibition he mentioned Pablo Picasso, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Angel Zarraga, Henri Matisse and Francis Bacon.
He noted that this is part of the great exhibition that Conaculta has brought to Mexico and today cover a wide circuit in the most important museums in the country.
He said the central themes titled Landscape, Nude, Portrait, Surrealism, Light and Color, Line, Space and Abstraction will show how during the early twentieth century Mexican art was at the forefront.
Meanwhile, Maria Cristina García, general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts, said this exhibition gives continuity to a cultural project that seeks to exhibit in Mexico the best of international art.
She praised that the exhibition will also travel to Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, and to the city of Lyon, France.
Films from Peru, Colombia open festival in Vietnam
The third cycle of Latin American cinema was opened here today with Peruvian film “Sigo siendo/Kachkaniraqmi,” which through images and music takes a journey through the geography of the Andean country and its different identities.
This time, the embassies of that region in Hanoi will use cinema as a tool for disseminating our culture, while sharing similarities, also shows differences, Luis Tsuboyama, charge d’affaires of the diplomatic representatives of Peru in Vietnam, said.
The film screenings are the most popular art expressions in our society, either because they reflect personal histories with which we identify or provide a moment of escape through entertainment and fun, he said.
But, they also educate and express particular viewpoints that do not necessarily reflect those of the majority.
He added that this time, intimate films, such as those of Chile, Uruguay and Mexico; historical movies, with the proposal of El Libertador, from Venezuela, about the life of Simon Bolivar; search for cultural identity (that of Panama), of fiction/drama, with the film based on a love story by writer Gabriel García Márquez; and two documentaries, one from Peru and one from Cuba, will be screened.
He also thanked on behalf of ambassadors and heads of missions in Latin America to the Ministry of Culture and the Vietnam Cinema Department and the Hanoi Cinematheque, where the films will be screened.
Buena Vista Social Club says farewell to Mexico
The Cuban orchestra Buena Vista Social Club said goodbye to Mexican public with a concert in the National Auditorium of this capital, that was turned into a dance floor.
Since the first song Como siento yo, the rhythm was a contagious protagonist of the evening that carried on with Bodas de oro, Rincon caliente, Tumba and Bruca Manigua, acclaimed by the assistants at Buena Vista’s Adios Tour.
The trombonist and group leader Jesus Aguaje Ramos delighted the audience with his skillful playing of the theme Trombon, the prelude of Omara Portuondo’s performance, which made people dance with her song Lagrimas negras.
A potpourri of popular songs, including Esta tarde vi llover and Vida loca, turned the heat up int the Auditorium, where people danced, shouted and whistled while applauding Omara Portuondo.
The diva said goodbye with Dos Gardenia and Candela, holding a Cuban flag, an emotional farewell of the emblematic Cuban band.
