July 9, 2001
Contact: Sarah Ray
802-443-5794
sray@middlebury.edu
Posted: July 9, 2001
MIDDLEBURY,
VT-“Escultura solar,” or “Solar
Sculptures,” a collection of works by Mexican artist Armando Santa
Ana Chávez, will be on display at Middlebury College through Aug.
10. Santa Ana Chávez is a professor of art history at La Universidad
Internacional de Cuernavaca, and an editorial cartoonist for the daily
paper La Jornada de Morelos and the weekly publication Política.
He is also currently artist-in-residence at Middlebury’s Spanish School.
Santa Ana Chávez calls the works in the exhibition solar sculpture
and habitable sculpture because they combine art with new technologies
learned at science museums in Mexico where he and his wife, sculptor Cristina
Martínez, create their art. Various museums in Mexico and a number
of universities in the United States have displayed one-man shows of works
by each of them, as well as group exhibitions that include their sculpture.
Santa Ana Chávez describes his work as representing the symbiosis
of art, science and nature. According to him, sculpture is an ideal expression
of art, one that conveys human relationship with the cosmos. Sculpture
is an art of space related to the sun, stars, water, earth and time -
a living expression of elements, energy and the universe itself.
The Middlebury College Spanish School is sponsoring the exhibition, which
is open from Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on weekends
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Solar Sculptures” is located on the
second floor of Bicentennial Hall just inside the entrance to the Armstrong
Library. Bicentennial Hall is on Bicentennial Way off College Street (Route
125), west of the blinking light. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Robert Keren of the Middlebury College Language
Schools at 802-443-2095.