Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Ambos Lados Opening -- at the El Paso Museum of History


Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints
 organized the USA side


"Art Takeover"
at the El Paso Museum of History


Erica Marin introducing the artists during the opening,
with Angel Cabrales to her right


Manuel Guerra
speaking about Ambos Lados


and also submitted a print to Ambos Lados


Raul Monarrez is part of Horned Toad Prints,
standing here in front of his orange print




Photo by Miana Saucedo


Photo by Miana Saucedo
















Vallarie and Arturo Enriquez are pictured above.  They had just come back from the Netherlands where their photo is showing in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, where Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" used to hang.  

 
Vermeer's famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was on loan to the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam for the Vermeer exhibition -- so the Mauritshuis Museum asked artists to "make their own girl," and received over three thousand submissions.  Five of those submissions are now hanging on the wall where the original "Girl with a Pearl Earring" used to hang, and one of those five was from Vallarie and Arturo Enriquez of El Paso.  The submission that got all the controversy and publicity however, was an AI (artificial intelligence) version by Julian van Dieken.







Michael Reyes was the curator for Ambos Lados,
seen here speaking at the podium





Krrrl (left), Erica Marin (director of the El Paso Museum of History),
and Michael Reyes (History Museum Curator) 

We would like to thank the entire staff at the El Paso Museum of History for putting on a great exhibition and a wonderful opening.

And also thanks to Federico Villalba and Miana Saucedo who took the best photos of the opening.


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