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Previously In Our Galleries: January 14 - April 11, 2010
Mario Petrirena installation at the CAC
"Petrirena has developed a personal iconography of memory and fragmentation that permeates much of his work, but is particularly important to his approach to installation art. In his installation work, we see his collage and assemblage dance with one another in a poetic choreography in an evocative environments that address the persistence of memory, the tension between the artificial and the natural, the ongoing collision of cultures, and the passing of time...Petrirena's collage works are hybrid images that are a collision of cultures and times. Rather than creating an abstract Mertz style collage, Petrirena overlays two or three images that are still somewhat complete and readable in themselves even as fragments."
David Houston, chief curator, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
In conjunction with the city-wide art exhibition called "¡Si Cuba!," and specifically the Mario Petrirena show at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
www.mariopetrirena.com
Gallery hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11am-4pm.
Gallery admission: $5/general, $3/students & seniors, FREE To CAC members.
For information, call (504) 528-3805
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Visual Arts programs of the Contemporary Arts Center are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation. Programming at the CAC is supported in part by our Business Arts Fund Members: Arthur Roger Gallery; Gallery Bienvenu; Hunt Telecom, LLC; The Law Offices of Matt Greenbaum; LeMieux Galleries; Merrill Lynch; Mignon Faget, Ltd.; and Rosenberg & Clark, LLC.
CAC 35th Birthday programming is supported by Nick Mayor & Jessica Bride, Entergy, Helis Foundation, Greater New Orleans Foundation, Arts Council of New Orleans, Louisiana Division of the Arts & Regions Bank.
