Cinesol and Art

Okay. So I've strayed....but like I promised I got some more juicy art info for you all! Also, I recently attended the screening of a movie called Puños Rosas at the CineSol Film Festival. It was all filmed in Brownsville and Matamoros so it was pretty interesting to see. I mean I haven't seen a movie with Brownsville since those old Mexican Pedrito Fernandez films with Lucerito or something...haha. The movie was good but quite violent. The Q&A afterwards was good feeling but could have credited better questions from its audience. There were questions like "In the film, was the guy gay?" and some lady also thanked the filmmakers for not putting in "inappropriate material" in the film (she kept saying that over and over... so I was thinking, "lady just say it...sex! sexual material, sexo, sexual innuendo, love-making, making whoppee, something but please stop saying "inappropriate material" as to keep my head from blowing up...ah!). So she thanked them because she was worried about bringing her small children to see the movie (it was very violent), but the violence she didn't mind because that was okay for them to see. I was glad that the filmmakers stated afterward that the movie was indeed not for children, and it isn't...it is good film and has a good story, but its violent and carries an implied plot that replies much on the assumption of its audience and for one you need to know Spanish to understand most of what's going on so even if there was no violence, it's not a film for children.

Okay so the art info here you go!

#1
There is a new art exhibtion at The Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center in San Benito entitled Telling Our Story: Dichos and Life in South Texas. The show includes Rio Grande Valley artists Philip Field, Jennifer Rodriquez and Benjamin Varela and I was very, very impressed with their work. I wish to could describe it all right now, but their styles and concepts are different from one another's but also run on this parallel theme of defining and celebrating cultural identity, that I would need to take half an hour to give their art any minimal justice and I need to go get ready for work...so all I can say is go, you won't regret it. I really recommend that you go to the see the exhibtion and if you need any information about the center's open hours call (956) 361-0110.

#2
A new gallery has opened in downtown Brownsville called tinSoupArtspace. I was finally able to find it after being mislead to think it was in the Alonso Building or somewhere on St. Charles St., which I was terribly wrong. So I finally just drove around one day after work and saw this red warehouse on St. Frances and I was like, a red warehouse in Brownsville?? Yup, there is artists there, haha! So anyways, the space also houses a graphic design business called Image-Formulaand it's all ran by two brothers who studied art as well. Pretty cool. Right now they have a show up by Valley artist Cande Aquilar, who does these great big giant abstract collages that are incredibly fun to look at. (*fun may not seem like a very appropriate term for art, but for me its fun to look at art and his art is especially fun.) So go check it out!
Here is their contact info: 903 e. St. Francis, Brownsville, Texas 78520, ph: 956.574.0888
Click Here for an article the was in The Herald about the gallery as well.

So go check it and support Valley art!