Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art
from the Cecere Collection
ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University
July 14, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Anonymous, Peru, Adam and Eve, Mixed media, 10 ½ x 7 ½ x 3 ?”, Gift of the Peter P. Cecere. photo credit: Daniel Swadener.
Programs:
Gallery talk with guest curator Joanne Stuhr
Friday, Sep. 7, 2007, noon
Reception at which Pete Cecere will be present
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
Brunch conversation:
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007 9:30-11 a.m.
Pete Cecere, guest curator Joanne Stuhr, and museum director Marilyn A. Zeitlin meet with visitors to discuss contemporary impacts on Latin American Folk Art. Coffee and Danish served.
EVERYDAY MIRACLES:
Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection
Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection presents objects that illuminate the secular and sacred and ways they intersect. The exhibition pays tribute to the life experience of the Latin American indigenous cultures from which these cultural traditions emerge.
In 2005, the ASU Art Museum received a donation of nearly 1,000 pieces of folk art from noted collector Peter P. Cecere. Cecere lives at the foot the Shenandoah Mountains, in the woods of western Virginia, in a pumpkin-colored house he designed for himself and 12,000 of his closed friends: his collection of folk art, most of it from Latin America.
To celebrate this generous gift, the ASU Art Museum has mounted an exhibition of approximately 60 pieces from Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Paraguay, El Salvador, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The exhibition examines the interaction between secular and sacred – specifically the complex interplay between the realm of the ordinary and the realm of the divine – in Latin America. Through object and text, the exhibition looks at indigenous traditions that are interwoven with Christian influences that arrived with the conquistadors. It reflects popular piety and evidence of syncretism in folk practices. It includes art that is made for, or that depicts; ceremony, ritual and magic.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
The exhibition is guest curated by Joanne Stuhr and is installed in the ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University.
Duration
Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection (July 14, 2007 – January 5, 2008) is open at the ASU Art Museum: Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Support
Support for this exhibition is provided by Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
ASU Art Museum Exhibitions
Selected past exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum include:
REGALOS MAGNIFICOS: Introducing Donations from the Collection of Peter P. Cecere
Mexican Folk Art in Context Selections from the Vanesian Collection
Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island
RAMPA: Signaling New Latin American Art Initiatives
Cops and Robbers: Drawings by Lucio Muniain
Codex Mendez: Prints by Leopoldo Mendez (1902-1969)
Fiestas de la Vida: Devotion and Ritual in Mexican Folk Art
PABLO HELGUERA: The School for Panamerican Unrest
ARACELI HERRERA: Mexico through the Lens
Landscape in the Fireplace: Paintings by Pedro Alvarez
Chicano(a) Art: from the M.A.R.S. Collection
Cuban Art from the Permanent Collection
More information, contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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More information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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