Oranjestad kunsthuis   represents a space to showcase  downtown's cultural identity. It’s art galleries. It’s monuments.  It’s historic buildings. It’s architecture,  and it’s cultural events.   Furthermore, a space to exhibit, predominantly, works of artists living and working in Aruba,   It’s main Focus is of contributing to the  development and promotion of Aruba’s contemporary art  movement.  And through this, the revival of downtown’s  identity. Oranjestad Kunsthuis with its “central” location  will certainly enrich  many observers with Aruba’s diverse artistic proposals. Indeed, a superb meeting point for the arts

ART CALENDAR:  MAY - JUNE, 2006

ACURIL XXXVI, ARUBA

MAY 28 – JUNE 2, 2006

Asociación de Bibliotecas Universitarias, de Investigación e Institucionales del Caribe

Asociation des Bibliotèques Universitaires, de Recherche et Institutionelles de la Caraïbe

featuring an:

ART EXHIBITION:

Titled:

Information and Human Rights ;

The Social, Cultural and Ethical Aspects of the Information Society

Top contemoray female artists of world experience, with a major contribution to art in their society:

Osaira Muyale,

Alida Martinez,

Glenda Heyliger,

Maritza Erasmus,

Belinda de Veer,

Giolina Henriquez.

One of the most important art exhibitions of the year featuring recent works of top female artist in Aruba, organized by Alice van Romondt a true intellectual authority on the subject matter with the assistance of the  South End Art Foundation.  An exhibition of emotions carried through conceptual, abstract and figurative works of art.  Installations, paintings, sculptures and sketches will fill the rooms of the "Cas di Cultura" with passions and thought.  Great opportunity for the public next thursday (1st june) and friday (2nd) to come to cas di cultura and experience this important art exhibition, it is free.  Special tours are available for schools or groups beside being guided by the artists.   

We are looking foreward to see you there.

Yours truly,

Gilbert Senchi,  Director South End Art Foundation 

Artists:

Osaira Muyale       

If each human being is an individual with a complete
network of senses of his own and a special combination
of abilities, then the vision of each human being will
be different, and the way in which each individual
determines his life will be a unique interpretation.
Captured in the complexity of civilization, man often
loses sight of his human destination. The artist not
only records the physical data of his own being, but
has to act as an interpreter, a translator of human
experience. Art functions as diagnosis, definition,
and standard for human life.

Alida Martinez   

Is there a flirtation here with the notion of "Imago",
the "final and perfect form of an insect after it has
been through its metamorphoses"? The perfect insect
that emerges from chrysalis goes through a stage of
being cocooned. What is being hatched in the securely
bound cocoon of Alida's body? Warmed by human heat and
secured by nourishing fuid this seems to be another
rift on the theme of rebirth and new life in a new
world. As Alida says this work is all about identity
and invites viewers to enter "in our own inner body
that screams for understanding".

Glenda Heyliger  

When you as a person are part of different continents, or different continents are part of you, the eclectic feelings haunt you, leaving you bare, naked and empty.  Only when there is nothing, there can be anything….For me this state of bareness is a necessity of life.     Living between two continents.     
The spirals stand for two continents. They turn in opposite directions. I am from Aruba and lived for a long time in Holland. I felt like I’m squeezed and this feeling left me bare and naked. In this state of mind lies my power, and this power is growing like  the spirals. The crown stands for the Dutch monarchy and oppression by all the institutions I have to deal  with in my profession. The aloe stands for the trademark of Aruba. Finally I took the aloe back to South Africa, where it was taken from in the first place (300 years ago). 

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 JUNE, 2006

Presents its,

3th FCAA Congress

titled,

"The impact of Tourism on Architecture and vice versa."

June 14 -16, 2006, Aruba

Parallel presentation of an collective

ART EXHIBITION

of works by:

Charles Brouns III - Belinda de Veer - Eliza Lejuez -Karin Martens - Nigel matthew - Jani Croes - Paul van Driel - Winston Davis - Alfonso Valbuena - Stan Kuiperi - Juni de Windt - Elvis Tromp - Ciro Abath - Ryan Oduber - Edmond Teeijehut.

Guest speaker of the congress

Chien Chung Pei AIA,  International recognized museum architect.below;La Louvre, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, National Art Museum, museum of fine arts

Chien Chung (Didi) Pei earned a bachelor of Arts cum laude from Harvard College in 1968 and graduated in 1972 from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master’s Degree in Architecture. Prior to founding Pei Partnership Architects in 1992 with his brother, Li Chung, C.C. Pei spent the first twenty years of his career contributing to many of I. M. Pei and Partner’ (now Pei Cobb Freed & Partners) most celebrated projects. He was designer-in-charge and project architect for eight of their completed projects, including the Grand Louvre in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts West Wing in Boston and the modernization of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City. In addition to serving nationally and internationally as a design competition and award juror, Mr. Pei lectures at universities and other venues on current projects and design philosophy.

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Now showing

Exposicion Arte Visual di Aruba 

  U bent van harte welcom!

        Kunstexpositie "The Liquid Gold"