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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1991
Revelaciones: The Art of
Manuel Alvarez Bravo will be
seen at the Detroit Institute
of Arts Jan. 16-Mar. 3. The ex-
hibition presents 113 images
representing six decades of
the 88-year-old photogra-
pher's work, and is free to the
public.
Alvarez Bravo's black-and-
white photographs are known
for their rich content and
powerful imagery. The sub-
jects — whether landscapes,
nudes, portraits, or murals —
often transcend the straight
image to portray his inner vi-
sion of Mexico through sym-
bolism and mythology. For
Alvarez Bravo, early in-
fluences included Mexican
muralista Diego Rivera,
David Alfaro Siqueiros, and
Jose Clemente Orozco;
writers such as Cervantes,
Joyce and Dostoyevsky, and
photographer-colleagues such
as Paul Strand and Edward
Weston.
Revelaciones: The Art of
Manuel Alvarez Bravo was
organized by the Museum of
Photographic Arts, San
Diego, Calif., and made possi-
ble by a grant from American
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support was received from the
Rockefeller Foundation and
the National Endowment for
the Arts. It was co-curated by
MoPA's executive director, Ar-
thur 011man, and the Israel
Museum's curator of photo-
graphs, Nissan Perez.
To augment Revelaciones:
The Art of Manuel Alvarez
Bravo, a bilingual video (15
min.) produced by the
Museum of Photographic
Arts will be shown con-
tinuously in a screening room
near the exhibition gallery.
Accompanying the exhibi-
tion is a bilingual catalogue
with an essay by Nissan Perez
and introduction by Arthur
011man (available in the DIA
Museum Shop).
Didactic panels in the
gallery and the accompany-
ing brochure are printed in
both English and Spanish.
Revelaciones: The Art of
Manuel Alvarez Bravo is open
to the public in the DIA's De
Salle Gallery of Photography
during regular museum
hours: Wednesday through
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.;
closed Monday, Tuesday and
holidays.
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The Sybaris Gallery will
begin its 1991 exhibition
season Jan. 12 with a group
show that runs through Feb.
23. The show will feature
woodturner Dennis Elliott,
ceramist Yih-Wen-Kuo and
weaver Fuyuko Matsubara.
Dennis Elliott creates
burlwood vessels. Mr. Elliott's
main focus is on large one-of-
a-kind vessels and wall
sculptures made of burl wood
such as maple, box elder and
cherry. His current work in-
volves the use of texture,
natural or imposed implying
techniques like carving, grin-
ding and even sandblasting to
create changes in the way a
piece looks and feels. He also
uses unusual approaches at
the lathe to invent specially
shaped pieces.
Yih-Wen Kuo, a native of
Taiwan, studied at the Na-
tional Taiwan Normal Uni-
versity before coming to the
United States to earn an
M.F.A. degree at Southern Il-
linois University in Carbon-
dale. Mr. Kuo notes that his
porcelain sculptures evolved
out of the traditional concept
of the vessel, but that his in-
terest is not in making func-
tional pots. lb him, it is much
more challenging to be able to
create new forms in response
to personal experiences. He
prefers minimalistic forms
because they are distinct.
These forms, with their
mysterious openings express
a sense of the unseen and the
unknown.
Fuyuko Matsubara pro-
duces work which is woven,
painted and then taken apart
and rewoven, overlapping
some of the images. The
results are pastel-colored fan-
tasies involving the sea, air
and space.
Ms. Matsubara, a native of
Sapora, Japan, is currently
an instructor at Parsons
School of Design in New York
City. She received . her
bachelor's and master's
degrees in craft and in-
dustrial design from the
Musachino Art University in
Tokoyo.
An opening reception will
be held 5:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 12.
For information, call the
Gallery, 544-3388.
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