1st International Triennial of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo 2010 (TRIC 2010)

The Biennial of the Caribbean (BC) was conceived in Santo Domingo in 1992, as an event and encounter focused on Caribbean and Central American painting, including the great and minor Antilles, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Cayena and Suriname. In its last two editions (2001 and 2003), it included the so called “transterrados” or Caribbean artists of the “Diaspora,” based mainly in Miami and New York City.
The 1st International Triennial of The Caribbean focuses on new horizons of content and projection, with a unique and main subject: Art and The Environment, including the participation of creative productions of high value coming from all geographical-linguistic areas of the Caribbean: English-spoken, French-spoken, Hispanic, Dutch, from the Grand Caribbean, Miami and Central America.
This first edition of the International Triennial of The Caribbean is headed by the Organizing Committee, comprised of María Elena Ditrén, Executive Director of the Triennial and Director of the Modern Art Museum; Amable López Meléndez, Chief Curator of Museo de Arte Moderno; Marianne de Tolentino, Director of the Galería Nacional de Bellas Artes; Sara Hermann, General Secretariat for the Dominican Association of Art Critics (ADCA/AICA); Abil Peralta Agüero, Coordinator of the Cultural Technical Unit for the Deputy Chamber of the Dominican Republic; Dustin Muñoz, General Fine Arts Sub-Director and Rafael Read, cultural representative for the Major’s Office of the National District.
The visual arts specialists in the Organizing Committee are also the Curatorial Committee of the 1st International Triennial of the Caribbean, in charge of selecting the special guest artists. Likewise, the selection of participant artists will be made by the curators Dominique Brebión (French-speaking Caribbean), Jorge Luis Gutiérrez (Great Caribbean and Miami), José Manuel Noceda (Central America), Danilo de los Santos (Hispanic Caribbean) and Jennifer Smit (Dutch Caribbean).
Special guest artists of this major event are: Tony Capellán (Dominican Republic), María Fernanda Cardoso (Colombia), Luis Cruz Azaceta (Cuba), Phillipe Dodard (Haiti), Tirzo Martha (Curaçao) and Pepón Osorio (Puerto Rico).
The Organizing Committee has appointed an international Awarding Jury comprised of specialists Orlando Britto Jinorio, Independent Curator (Spain), Dr. Michéle Dalmace, Director of the Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos at Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux (France), Dr. Carol Damian, Director of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (Miami), Myrna Guerrero Villalona, member of AICA-Dominican Republic and Yacouba Konaté, President of AICA International (Ivory Coast/France).
The Awarding Jury will grant an Editorial Award that includes the edition of a monographic catalogue to be produced in the Dominican Republic; an Exhibition Award consisting of a solo show at Museo de Arte Moderno in the Dominican Republic, including a catalogue of the exhibition, transportation, insurance for the works, travel and accommodation expenses for the artist; an Art Residency Award in the Dominican Republic, consisting of the artist’s participation, for a period of 15 to 30 days, in a program for artists in residence, under contract conditions. It will include transportation costs and basic daily expenses for the time mentioned. The Jury may also grant recognitions and honorable mentions.
In this first edition of the 1st International Triennial of the Caribbean, Santo Domingo 2010, the Ministry of Culture and Museo de Arte Moderno, takes its inspiration from the deep vocation of the “City of Ozama” as a space for regional encounter and brotherly dialogue around the most disturbing social, cultural, political and ecological problems that humanity is currently facing. In fact, the 15th International Conference of the United Nations on Climatic Change (COP 15), held in Copenhagen (Denmark) from December 7 - 18 in 2009, concluded, after an outrageous resignation “agreement”—among the main industrialized countries—signing a political anti-warming pact, equal to the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (2005). The intensification of dialogue and trans-disciplinary processes, enabling effective solutions before the complexity of the current weather crisis of the planet, is not only an imperative statement of an ethical and moral character but also an ideological challenge, that concerns all nations, all sectors—political, economic, scientific, cultural, communitarian, professional or involving the citizenship, given the supremacy of economic values over ecological ones, as one of first causes of such crisis.
The 1st International Triennial of the Caribbean projects itself as a privileged platform of empowerment for art and contemporary artists of the Caribbean and Central America; as a new bet that stimulates an edifying dialogue, of an open, reflexive, poetic, transparent, festive, proactive, brotherly and not-to-be-postponed character from and through imagination, sensibility and creativity. With no limits for media, ideas or expressive resources, the TRIC /2010 is specially focused on artists whose proposals share the fact of intensely asking ourselves about the multiple elements that configure the complex identities and social contemporary realities, as well as the essential concern for the damaging effects that result from the quick degradation that the different human groups have caused on biodiversity, on the environment and on the ecosystem, mostly through processes of exploitation, “development” and consumption of non-renewable natural resources.
For further information on this event please contact Museo de Arte Moderno de la República Dominicana located at Ave. Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, tel: 809-685-2153 ext. 225/226 or write to trienalinternacionaldelcaribe@gmail.com
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