Amelia Peláez. A Retrospective Gaze (1928-1966)

The Consorci de Museus of the Comunitat Valenciana (Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community) presents at its Centro del Carmen the exhibition entitled Amelia Peláez. A Retrospective Gaze (1928-1966). Open to the public until May 8, 2012, the retrospective is the first grand exhibition in Valencia that centers on the work of Peláez (Yaguajay, 1896-Havana, 1968). It includes 32 paintings and 10 drawings, created between 1928 and 1966. Amelia Peláez. A Restrospective Gaze (1928-1966) was presented and inaugurated by Felipe Garín, director of the Consortium; Regla García, deputy director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba; and Elsa Vega, curator at Centro del Carmen and also curator of this exhibition. Amelia Peláez stands out as an important figure in 20th Century Cuban painting. Through her work-very much influenced by the European vanguards of her time-she combined several Cuban themes and successfully reinterpreted the art of her homeland. Her images depict still lifes, women profiles, and colorful characters and the spaces that surround them. Amelia Peláez. A Restrospective Gaze (1928-1966), offers a good opportunity to get to know the early work by this Cuban artist, created during the1930s and 1940s. The show also provides viewers an insight into the mark Cubism left in Peláez' works created in Cuba following her return from Paris. Additionally, the exhibition surveys the period after the 1940s, when she begins to define a style of her own and achieves the pictorial and technical definition that would characterize her work from then on. Finally, the exhibition also includes works created during the 1950s and 1960s. These reveal passionate developments in the use of color that follow the technical and visual guidelines of an original style.