[Peace] Fwd: IPRH + CLACS Exhibit Opening

[Alfred Kagan]

>
>>May be of interest. . .
>>
>>
>>Greetings!
>>We hope you are able to join us for the opening 
>>reception for this exhibition on Monday from 
>>5:00 to 7:00 p.m. -- please let me know if you 
>>have any questions!
>>Cheers,
>>Chris
>>
>>>The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
>>>and
>>>The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
>>>
>>>
>>>invite you to an
>>>
>>>
>>>Exhibit Opening
>>>
>>>Territorios/Territories:
>>>Mapuche Art and Identity
>>>
>>>Recent Paintings by
>>>René Eduardo Rapiman Marin
>>>
>>>
>>>Monday, February 16
>>>5:00 p.m.
>>>Humanities Lecture Hall
>>>IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue
>>>
>>>There will be a reception for the artist.
>>>
>>>
>>>René Eduardo Rapiman Marin is a young Mapuche 
>>>artist from southern Chile with a growing 
>>>national and international reputation. His 
>>>large acrylic canvasses and more intimate 
>>>watercolor paintings focus on the territories 
>>>and experiences of his native American people 
>>>- famous for its valiant and spectacular 
>>>resistance to Spanish colonial and Chilean 
>>>national subjection, immortalized in Alonzo de 
>>>Ercilla's seventeenth century epic poem La 
>>>Araucana. By employing the tools of modern art 
>>>in stunningly vivid instantiations, Rapiman 
>>>seeks to contribute to a repositioning and 
>>>reclamation of Mapuche territory and identity 
>>>against the attempted erasures of the Chilean 
>>>national state and dominant society. Beyond 
>>>numerous exhibitions in Chile, he has 
>>>participated in exhibitions in Havana, Kiel 
>>>(Germany), Basel, and Brunei (where in 2000 
>>>William Jefferson Clinton had the honor of 
>>>meeting him).  Before the exhibition and other 
>>>presentations on our campus, Rapiman exhibited 
>>>his work at Yale and presented lectures at 
>>>Harvard.
>>>
>>>During his visit to UIUC, Rapiman Marin will 
>>>also participate in a number of other 
>>>activities:
>>>
>>>Tuesday, Feb. 17
>>>
>>>4:00pm, room TBA: "Arte Contemporanea Mapuche 
>>>y Territorios" Una presentación powerpoint de 
>>>René Eduardo Rapiman Marin; con siguiente 
>>>discusión. Este evento, en castellano trata de 
>>>la gran influencia del arte en la 
>>>reconstitución y afirmación de la nación 
>>>Mapuche (in Spanish).
>>>
>>>Wednesday, Feb. 18
>>>
>>>4:00pm, 201 International Studies Building: 
>>>Screening of the Chilean documentary video, 
>>>"Política social y represión en Chile: Le 
>>>lucha del pueblo Mapuche." Subsequent 
>>>discussion with René Eduardo Rapiman Marin (in 
>>>Spanish).
>>>
>>>Thursday, Feb. 19
>>>
>>>3:00pm, Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH: 
>>>"Artistic Representation, Space and Native 
>>>American Identities" -- A Panel Discussion 
>>>(with Spanish/English translation) featuring:
>>>- René Eduardo Rapiman Marin, Agrupación de 
>>>Creadores Mapuche Contemporáneos, Pitrufquén, 
>>>Chile
>>>- Brenda Farnell, Anthropology
>>>- Durango Mendoza, Artist, Champaign
>>>- Judi Ross, Art and Design
>>>- Nan Volinsky, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
>>>Moderator: Michael Goldman, Sociology
>>>
>>>
>>>For more information, please contact the IPRH at 244-3344
>>>or go online at www.iprh.uiuc.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Stephen Hartnett
>>The Helen Corley Petit Scholar of Speech Communication
>>The University of Illinois
>>244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St.
>>Urbana, Illinois 61801
>>(217) 333-1593; hartnett at uiuc.edu


-- 


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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