Art Workshop Exhibit at Corsica Gallery
 Adriana Romero - PVNN
| | The twenty three local artists who participated in the Fine Arts Workshop pose with Mexico City artist Agustín Castro López in front of Los Mangos Public Library. | 
| | The Des Construccion on exhibit at Gallery Corsica shows the results of each participant's work. |
For the third year in a row, Mexico City's artist Agustín Castro López came to Puerto Vallarta to teach a month-long Fine Arts Workshop at Los Mangos Public Library this June.
An Internationally renowned Mexican artist, Agustín López Castro has become very successful over the years, as both an artist and a teacher. He currently exhibits his work in Corsica Gallery and has shown his art pieces in several famous galleries around the globe.
This year's central workshop theme was to learn about how to compose a painting, decomposing that same art piece with different techniques and surfaces. As a result of this experimentation an original art piece that was totally interesting and expressive emerged out of each and every artist.
The issue this year also was to do and undo, to paint and un-paint, to create and destroy in order to create again, to alter spaces and images to explore more interesting artistic paths and outcomes.
Each participating artist had to paint nine 40x40 cm panels in which the creator had to experiment with diverse surfaces such as painting on canvas, wood, and metal, using various painting techniques, textures and media such as oil, acrylic, pastel, collage, plus experimenting with plaster, tar, etc.
| | Art teacher Castro Lopez' guidance is reflected in each painters' brushstroke. | 
| | Artist Adriana Romero's polidiptic in acrylic on wood and metal panels. |
The idea was to create a balance with the unbalance in other words; Understanding the relationship between one panel and the other even though each of these resulting nine panels could be so different from one another.
The most amazing result was that each 40x40 panel created a personality of its own. Mixing visual languages and contexts, using different symbolisms from which we get bombarded everyday by mass media and television, anything that society creates and provides is raw material to work and experiment with, therefore creating a unique visual language.
In some of these artistic creations the human form was used to express and create, in other situations, landscape was used. In my personal case, being one of the participating artists, I used human anatomy as a symbol as well as other printed objects introduced to my paintings using a touch of collage and acrylic media.
As a result of each participant's work and as a wrap-up celebration for the culmination of this 3rd annual art workshop, an art opening was held on June 20th at Córsica Gallery. The ribbon was cut by Art teacher Castro Lopez together with Ricardo Murrieta, the General Director of Los Mangos Public Library, who made it possible for the artists to use the Bernice Star classroom during the course.
The exhibition, called "Des Construccion," features art by the following 23 local artists: Cecilia Bojórquez, Gabriela Vergara, Adriana Romero, Rosana Chávez, Lola Deziel, Adriana Navarrete, Roberto Bermejo, Zita Alejandra L, Javier Santana, Norbelly Valencia, Hilda Rosales, Ada Colorina, Julieta de la Fuente, Adriana Sanchez Navarro, Tere García, Beatríz Narváez, Felipe Morfín, Cecilia Preciado, Armando Romero, Patty Gallardo, Gloria Navarro, Carmina Diaz and Claudia Plata Roca.
This very interesting exhibition will be on display through the 27th at Córsica Gallery, located at Leona Vicario Street #230 in Downtown Puerto Vallarta. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4-10 pm. Please feel free to visit, and enjoy a wonderful experience rich in expression, color and texture. |
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News from Around Banderas Bay | June 2007 
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