Exhibition "I have a dream" in New York - A Homage to Martin Luther King:
Josep Puigmarti present in the exhibition “I have a dream” which is taking place in New York as a homage to Martin Luther King.
From January 21st to March 8th 2009, The Gabarron Foundation of New York presents the exhibition "I have a dream", in collaboration with the City Hall of Sitges, to honour Martin Luther King on the 80th anniversary of his birth, through Art.
The exhibition shows the original works of over a hundred artists and intellectuals from around the world, a proposal whose organizers have identified as "full of visions, different techniques and styles to serve a single purpose: to update Martin Luther King’s message".
Over 70 artists from 5 continents are participating in this proposal where the common denominator is “that dream". Dr. King had a dream more than 45 years ago and this exhibition presents the display by the artists of that dream. The exhibition is complemented by a myriad of relevant letters of writers, thinkers and scientists who have presented their "dream".
Among others, these are the artists have made possible to fulfill this dream: Andreu Alfaro, Enric Ansesa, Eduard Arranz Bravo, Louise Bourgeois, Lluis Cera, Miguel Condé, Xavier Corbero, Luis Feito, Cristobal Gabarrón, Juan Genovés, Luis Gordillo, Josep Grau-Garriga, Richard Hamilton, Laura Iniesta, Menchu Lamas, Anton Lamazares, Matt Lamb, Lluis Lleó, Robert Llimós, Eva Lootz, Waltraud Maczassek, Santi Moix, Perico Pastor, Antón Patiño, Carlos Pazos, Josep Puigmarti, Manolo Quejido, Josep M. Riera i Aragó, Benet Rossell, Josep Uclés, Juan Uslé and Vicenç Viaplana.
The mayor of Sitges, Jordi Baijet said that "it is a coincidence that the exhibition comes now, one day after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first black president in U.S. history, which gives "an added value" to the event.
After New York, the exhibition will move to other states in the U.S. as Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Illinois, to return to Spain and start its journey through different cities of the country and travel in 2011 to European capitals such as Paris and Berlin.
The project could be summarized as an attempt to raise mutual awareness between U.S. and Spanish societies through the various cultural manifestations in both countries, as well as to recover the collective identity to advance in the present and future knowledge throughout the twenty-first century.
Once again, the union of the two territories has, once more become real in this wonderful exhibition through the efforts of the City of Sitges, the curator of the exhibition and Sitges’ town councillor for Culture, Gabi Serrano and The Gabarron Foundation in New York.
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