Season of Stealth Art at elit-tile 2014-2015

Season of Stealth Art at elit-tile 2014-2015
Santo Domingo, December 12, 2014

In the framework of the Fifth World Ceramic Tile Triennial (elit-tile 2014), the Igneri / Art and Archaeology Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Modern Art, disclosed the details of the new season of Stealth Art.

Thimo Pimentel, organizer and founder of the Ceramics Triennial, explained that Stealth Art is an original artistic and cultural event that began in the last quarter of 2012. Its objective is to find one or more pieces by a Dominican artist with over 50 years of professional career in the arts and secure it.

“On this occasion, the pieces are similar but each one is different and they will be signed by the author. By participating you will learn new things about Dominican culture, its history, geography, anecdotes and, more than anything else, during the process you can make new friends and enjoy healthy entertainment with the entire family. This is where physical and mental health are important and nurtured, and where collecting is being promoted”, said Pimentel.

The rules of the game are to find the “clues” that appear on Facebook, under the heading looking for THIMO PIMENTEL, or in some cases you will receive them by email and then you have to decipher them. To receive one of the clues being provided, at any time, you must send an email to: thimop@elit-tile.net.

“After receiving the clues, you need to go out either alone or with family and friends to look for the pieces until you find them. Then, you must take a picture of yourself with the piece, wherever you found it, and immediately upload it to Facebook so that everyone else will stop searching for it”, he says.

In this edition of the event, scheduled to take place during the Long Night of the Museums, the collectible pieces are: cylinders, hearts, aones, guaripakis, cocolondrios, trilobites, jewels and trigonolitos. Their cost ranges from RD$500 to more than RD$30,000, but, because they are collectibles, their owners would not sell them for much more money.

“As you can see, this is an activity that creates addicts, and hence the word ‘adicthimos’ for those who cannot sleep trying to decipher the clues. And when you wake up at midnight because you receive a clue or because you have found a location, then you will become a new `furufo’ of STEALTH ART. If you lose sleep completely, you would have become an ‘adicthimo’”, he says.

The Igneri Art / Archaeology Foundation is a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting and developing art and archeology through research, showing and publication of any event or material that would contribute to this purpose.

The Foundation also promotes the rescue of graphics and other art forms by the first inhabitants of the West Indies, as well as the development of the ceramic tile and the dissemination and rescue of the work of its most prominent representative in the Dominican Republic, maestro Paul Giudicelli (1919-1965).

The Fifth World Triennial will remain open until February, 2015, Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at the Museum of Modern Art of the Dominican Republic, located at Ave. Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, in Santo Domingo.