Every first Friday of the month, in the City of San Jose CA, there is a cultural event known as the “South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk” that I have been interested on for some time, although, have never been able to attended. By mid-March, while looking at the First Friday e-bulletin, I read about the “Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americano, MACLA” and the “17th Latino Art Now! exhibit presented through beginning of April to mi-May, and felt compelled to visit the art space for the Chicano/Latino Culture project. On Monday April 20, 2015, I went to the MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latinoamericana) gallery, located at at510 South First Street, San José, CA, 95113, where the 17th Latino Art Now! is running. I decided to go to this event
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expressed through visual art is a powerful way to tell and preserve stories and traditions, and, in this exhibit I was able to see the transformation and evolution of the soul and the conflict of finding oneself identified within two or more cultures. In this exhibit, although, the art talks about the being Latino outside of Latin America, I found that many themes and figures inasmuch are the same to what we see in Latin America, as well as the use and combination of colors, always vibrant, brilliant and dramatic. As I walked into the gallery there was a beautiful, and impactful piece taking a significant space on the wall called Microcosm Chandelier (mix-media on paper) by Benito Rangel de María. The piece reflects the many layers that make up our world with shapes, material combined in such a way that I saw the structure of our society from different perspectives – psychological and physical – all interconnected by lines, shapes, sober colors, and movement in a breathtaking manifestation, no wonder this piece has the highest price of all pieces in the exhibit. The other pieces in the gallery, not as big as the one I described above, were innovative (as the same time they were conservative), and thought-provoking pieces that moved me deeply as I was able to recognize the pain and struggles of many, combined with the strong uplifting spirit Latin-Americans carry inside, …show more content…
According to the MACLA exhibit host, “this long-running and popular exhibition reflects the breadth of visual arts media of a special generation of Latino artists. A generation that has witnesses dramatic changes in immigration patterns and a rapid and extensive growth of the Latino community in the country.” I found the art space, MACLA, itself to be the perfect place-frame to display art such as the one from the 17th Latino Art Now! Starting with its location in the heart of the city of San Jose and across the street from the Founding Fathers Monument, to the design of the gallery and the colors inside made the art pieces stand-out in an environment full of Latino flavor and
expressed through visual art is a powerful way to tell and preserve stories and traditions, and, in this exhibit I was able to see the transformation and evolution of the soul and the conflict of finding oneself identified within two or more cultures. In this exhibit, although, the art talks about the being Latino outside of Latin America, I found that many themes and figures inasmuch are the same to what we see in Latin America, as well as the use and combination of colors, always vibrant, brilliant and dramatic. As I walked into the gallery there was a beautiful, and impactful piece taking a significant space on the wall called Microcosm Chandelier (mix-media on paper) by Benito Rangel de María. The piece reflects the many layers that make up our world with shapes, material combined in such a way that I saw the structure of our society from different perspectives – psychological and physical – all interconnected by lines, shapes, sober colors, and movement in a breathtaking manifestation, no wonder this piece has the highest price of all pieces in the exhibit. The other pieces in the gallery, not as big as the one I described above, were innovative (as the same time they were conservative), and thought-provoking pieces that moved me deeply as I was able to recognize the pain and struggles of many, combined with the strong uplifting spirit Latin-Americans carry inside, …show more content…
According to the MACLA exhibit host, “this long-running and popular exhibition reflects the breadth of visual arts media of a special generation of Latino artists. A generation that has witnesses dramatic changes in immigration patterns and a rapid and extensive growth of the Latino community in the country.” I found the art space, MACLA, itself to be the perfect place-frame to display art such as the one from the 17th Latino Art Now! Starting with its location in the heart of the city of San Jose and across the street from the Founding Fathers Monument, to the design of the gallery and the colors inside made the art pieces stand-out in an environment full of Latino flavor and