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Friday,
January 10, 2003
Tucson,
the only U.S. stop for Kino art show
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QUICK
TAKE
Homage
to
Father Kino
When:
Opening
recep- tion is 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tuesdays-Satur- days; noon-4 p.m. Sundays. The exhib- it runs
Jan.11-31.
Where: EI Centro
Cul- turai de las Americ- as, 40 W. Broadway
Cost: Free
Information: 621-1481
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"Il
Lungo Viaggio" By Annamaria Rossi Zen is among the works
int the exhibit |
"Omaggio
a Padre Kino" is an acrilic by Giorgio Tommasi of Italy |
By
Anthony Broadman
ARIZONA
DAILY STAR
On
May 3, 1681, Father Eusebio Kino landed at Veracruz, Mexico. The New World has never been the
same. Kino,
a Jesuit priest. established 12 colonial missions in what he called
Pimeria Alta the land straddling the present day Arizona-Sonora
border - forever marrying the cultures of Spain and the Sonoran
Desert.
But
he was from northern Italy, not Spain.
It
took an international ensemble o fMexican, Italian and U.S. artists to
bring about "Homage to Father Kino," a ret rospective o fhis
legend and legacy.
This
artistic look at the man born Eusebio Francisco Chini opens Saturday
evening with a reception from 5:30 to 8 at El Centro Cultural de las
Americas.
Blanca
Villalobos, a Sonoran artist living in Tucson and a living testament
to the rich accul- turative product of Kino's colonization, brought
together an international ensemble of artists for the exhibit.
The
list of contributors to the the
exhibit reflects the international interst in Kino's life
In concert with a cultural association celebrating Kino's life from his
hometown of Segno, Italy,Villalobos gathered more than 60 works -
paintings, engravings. photographs. ceramics ,sculptures and
mosaics from 33 artists.
The exhibit "shows how peopIe from another country become related to you and your
ideas,
Villalobos said in an in an interview last week.
Organizing has exhibit has given Villalobos an appreciation of its subject
-especially
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when she realized Kino was responsible for her
favorite food:
taquitos de carne asada. He brought beef cattle to the Southwest.
Tucson is the only U.S. city to host
the traveling exhibit, which has shown in Segno and in Obregon, Guaymas,
Hermosillo
and Caborca, Sonojra.
In addition to artwork inspired
by Kino's life, the special collections
department of the University
of Arizona Library and the Arizona State Museum have lent artifacts from
the priest's lfe to the exhibit.
Claudio Chini of Segno, a descendant
of Kino's, will tly to Tucson for the opening of the exhibit.
Kino's
contribution to the hjstory of Southern Arizona and the legacy
of the missions he constructed here -in Tucson, Tumacacori and Guevavi -
are retlected in Tucson being selected as the exhibit's only stop in the
United States, according to.Homage" promoters.
From
Tucson, the exhibit con tinues on to Magdalena, Sonora, where it will
conclude on March
15 -the 292nd anniversary of Kino's death.
Contact reporter Anthony Broadman at 573-4124 or
broadman@azstarnet.com
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2003 Arizona Daily Star |
