Oscar Abreu in the Cultural Souls Arts Fair in Miami, Florida

Oscar Abreu in the Cultural Souls Arts Fair in Miami, Florida
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 20^th, 2014

Renowned Dominican Painter and Sculptor Oscar Abreu announced his most recent artistic endeavor that will be exhibited during the first edition of the Cultural Souls Arts Fair, which is both an ambitious and entrepreneurial project.

The artist states that: “my art is a historical reference of memories and experiences through which I attempt to awaken a state of conscious human and social critique in the spectator.”

The Cultural Souls Arts Fair will take place in the Sherbondy Village Art & Cultural Center located in 215 N. Perviz Avenue, OpaLocka City, FL 33054. The opening ceremony will take place on Friday, August 22nd from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The event will be open to public on Saturday, August 23rd and Sunday, August 24th starting from 10:00 a.m.

In booth B134, Oscar Abreu will be presenting his exhibition titled: “La Forma del Pensamiento” that is comprised of a restrained collection of paintings and sculptures in which the artist reveals his bond with the most latent displays of humanism during our time, depicted in a strong and dramatic speech that is supported by the structure and reminiscences of abstract expressionism.

The artist states that: “my art is a historical reference of memories and experiences through which I attempt to awaken a state of conscious human and social critique in the spectator.”

According to art critic Marianne de Tolentino: “Oscar Abreu continues to be inspired by fine arts, and the abstract element has been strengthenedin his exhibit. It may be the lines, the rhythms, the spatial directions that now determine the association with scores, staves and notes.”

Specialists have described Abreu’s collection, which is currently being exhibited in Miami, as emblematic seals that reveal the distressing scriptures of individual and collective souls in these turbulent times controlled by the agitation of the globalization era.

Profile of the Artist

Oscar Abreu was born in San Juan de la Maguana in 1978. This was also the city in which he received personal artistic training by Dominican master sculptor José Nicolás Jiménez. He later studied in the School of Fine Arts in the same province. Afterwards, he settled in Spain, where he continued his academic training in the studio of Professor Muñoz in Alcala de Henares. In 1994, he dubbed his artistic style as Psycho-Expressionism. He followed his studied in the special programs in The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in the Marwen Foundation, also located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

He worked as director of the Alianza Art Gallery cultural project in the city of New York. In 2006, he founded a cultural center that bears his name in Santo Domingoand has worked as an independent curator of important exhibitsboth in the United States as well as in the Dominican Republic. His works have been widely displayed in art galleries and museums in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, New York City and Chicago, Illinois.

For more information and tickets, please contact the Cultural Souls office at 754-800-7380 or visit the website www.culturalsouls.com