Grand Opening of Three New Exhibits || Bellas Artes / El Nigromante Cultural Center

GRAND OPENING NIGHT AT BELLAS ARTES
Three New Exhibits

Friday, February 1
7:00 p.m.

Free admission

Hernández Macías 75, Col. Centro
San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

The Cultural Center “El Nigromante” of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature is pleased to invite you to the opening of its next artistic exhibitions, on Friday, February 1 at 7 pm. For this first cycle, the central theme that unites our exhibitions is “Migration”. From different critical approaches, the artists present a current vision of an issue of global interest.

“De Pasada”, Tania David and Salvador Tejeida

In the exhibition “De Pasada”, Tania David and Salvador Tejeida will present a video installation to tell the stories of the migrants who pass through our local communities on their way to the border. These stories are a form of tribute to their courage to show us that they are human beings, that they want and deserve opportunities and sometimes, redemption. Tania David is a visual artist from New York City, with roots in documentary photography. Her most recent work involves collage photography, painting, object art and mixed media. In 1993 she moved to the city of San Miguel de Allende, Gto. where she currently lives and works. Salvador Tejeida, born in the city of San Miguel de Allende, studied art at the University of Guanajuato, focusing on visual art platforms such as video and installation.

“Migrant Humanity”, Enrique Chiu

Enrique Chiu, artist from the city of Tijuana, has created the exhibition “Migrant Humanity” in order to express the sense of the human condition and reality on the US-Mexico border. Recognized as a figure of the arts in the Latin medium, Chiu is considered one of the outstanding young artists not only in the border area, but internationally. This exhibition is made up of a series of paintings that reach a certain autonomy with authority and a life of their own in each of the stories they tell us. At the same time, it is integrated by the photographic record that shows the social action through the art achieved in the Mural of the Brotherhood, a key piece of the Migrant Humanity project. Messages of peace among nations, respect for humanity and the environment, as well as messages that promote values ​​and contribute to social awareness in the border wall that divides Baja California Mexico and California E.U.A.

“Uprooted: Reflections on migration, uprooting and adaptability”, Daniela Edburg

Daniela Edburg in her exhibition “Uprooted: Reflections on migration, uprooting and adaptability”, will show an integral sample of her photographic work, installation and object art, that as a laboratory where fiction and reality are mixed; connections are established between biology, geology, personal history, anthropology and art. In these stories of displacement and adaptation are told, not only about people, but also about natural species that in turn have a history of migration. Edburg is a Mexican artist born in Texas in 1975, she studied Visual Arts at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City. The objective of his work is the human connection with the natural through the artificial. Since 2017, he is a member of the National System of Creators with the support of FONCA (SISTEMA NACIONAL DE CREADORES). Lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.

This beautiful former monastery of La Concepción church was converted into a fine-arts school in 1938. Don’t miss the murals of Pedro Martínez, plus the Siqueiros Room, which features the extraordinary unfinished mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros (it plays with your mind – we won’t spoil the surprise). The rest of the gallery holds temporary exhibitions.   It is located less than 5 minutes from the main square in Street Hernandez Macias that parallels Hidalgo street which leads right in the Main Garden. It is walking through this beautiful area worth, visit its art galleries and get you some photos on your patio or in one of the arches of the first floor, but if you are thinking that the arts are your thing you can consider it as a study center for you because it is a nationally recognized school.