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Curated by Nohra Haime
September 14th – November 6th, 2003
(Closed Columbus Day Weekend)
Opening reception: Sunday, September 14th, 1 – 3:30 PM
Works by Latin American artists: Lydia Azout, Hugo Bastidas, Jose Bedia, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Adriana Carvalho, Monica Castillo, Yvonne Estrada, Flor Garduno, Luis Gonzalez-Palma, Susana Jaime-Mena, Maripaz Jaramillo, Benjamin Lira, Ramiro Llona, Gabriela Machado, Javier Marin, Vik Muniz, Oscar Munoz, Ana De Orbegoso, Nadin Ospina, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Betsabee Romero, Daniel Senise, Francisca Sutil, Jorge Tacla and Juana Valdes.
Born in Bogotá, Columbia, Nohra Haime has been Director of the Museum of Modern Art and Director of the National Restoration Center, in Bogotá. The author of more than 60 published articles, she opened the Nohra Haime Gallery, which specializes in international contemporary art, In 1980.
“In an age of globalization and of the Internet, a new need for individuality and humanity is fast appearing. While the Internet breaks frontiers, speeds up our lives and dehumanizes interaction, identity is becoming more and more important. Life experience marks us, and in Latin America, where we never know what tomorrow may bring, life is lived to its fullest and nothing is taken for granted. It is up to us as individuals to create our future because it will not be done for us.
What distinguishes Latin American art is its passion, its thirst for expression, a wandering into the impossible. It reveals a sense of family, a grandness of spirit and the possibility of magic. Whatever the subject or the premise, the work of art vibrates, suffused with an energy stemming from the artist's inner core. Even the most conceptual and intellectual works relate, define or lead toward a cry for help—for us, all of humanity and not the selfish impulse. It is not about our small problems but about humanity, about awareness, about denouncing in the hope of changing…it is about life."
- Nohra Haime