OFILL ECHEVARRÍA
EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS
THE REAL WORLD
Exhibition and Book Launch
September 12th – 19th, 2013
Reception: September 19th, 2013 5-9 pm
The Gabarron Foundation – Carriage House Center for the Arts
149 East 38th Street
Nueva York, NY
www.gabarronfoundation.org / 212.573.6965 / infoGF@gabarron.org
A thematic monograph of the work of Cuban-American realist painter and multimedia artist, Ofill Echevarria, exploring urban life -- still and in motion.
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Oct 21, 2013, 08:57 ET
BOSTON, Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Unveiled in Mexico City with the support of Galeria Alfredo Ginocchio and the exhibit "Momentum," the work has now launched in the United States with the coinciding solo exhibition "The Real World," new large scale oil paintings from Ofill and a selection of his moving pictures, at the Carriage House Center for the Arts, sponsored by the Cuban Cultural Center and the Gabarron Foundation, New York City.
The 125 page clothbound hardcover with text contributed by Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montieland Alejandro Robles, translated by Marilu Menendez is now available online: ISBN: 978-0-9829198-1-1.
"His art speaks for itself ... has a language, emotional language, a visual language, a depth to it, that once you become familiar with it, it's hard to see the world without its influence ... he has been able to develop this language that, once you become familiar with, you'll never see the world the same way ... I find myself trying to look at crowds and trying to look at anonymous crowds through the eyes of Ofill, through the eyes of his work ... you try to see these situations, and these moments in time, and they mean something completely different; and if it wasn't for his language, if it wasn't for his creativity, I would have never been able to, perhaps, see those moments in that way ... ."
- Jorge Moya, Cuba Art NY
This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarria (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un-Gyve Limited. Debuting as a member of Grupo Arte Calle in 1988, a graduate of la Academia San Alejandro, Ofill Echevarria has since exhibited his work in galleries and museums internationally. He lives and works in New York City, the urban reality of which is vividly depicted in EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS | THE REAL WORLD book (Un-Gyve Press) and touring exhibition.
For further information, contact Un-Gyve Limited.
SOURCE Un-Gyve Limited
The Roger Lonsdale archive, at Balliol College, Oxford, includes his reflections, in 2005, on his poetry, with lists of his ninety poems—alphabetically by first lines, and chronologically—as well as his notebooks as a poet; and, at that time, he noted, in reference to these sixteen poems from Un-Gyve Press in a numbered, limited edition of seventy-five: “At present the following seem worth preserving for one reason or another.”