Omar Chacón "Sancochos a la Cimabue" Exhibition
BRAC @ Bronx Music Heritage Center
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Omar Chacón presents a suite of new and recent abstract paintings that forge together expression with craft, color with symbolism, and inspiration with heritage. All of Chacón’s motives swell forcefully together and congeal within the parameters of a canvas, as his exhibition’s title suggests. Sancocho is a Latin American soup or stew that blends Spanish and indigenous flavors, which to Chacón further symbolizes the richness and fusion evident in Latin American life. This concept is further amplified by the personal artistic lineage that commands his body of work—the memory of his grandfather, a self-taught artist, making an abstract painting of small dots. These dots now become colorful lozenges and discs that could even be interpreted as aerial perspectives of individual people, mixing, multiplying, and taking over. The artist’s penchant for a mestizo stance is congruent to his ingenious use of paint and color, which references the inventive and original characteristics of Hispanic folk art and indigenous textiles.
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from May 02, 2008 to June 06, 2008