"PINTURA : PALABRA, a project in ekphrasis" has launched

E. Carmen Ramos (center)

curator of the exhibit

"Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art"

Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

"Three years ago in Los Angeles, at my first Latino Art Now! conference, we unveiled a silkscreen print by Malaquias Montoya. We had commissioned him to use as inspiration the poetry of his late son, Andrés Montoya. In other words, the art created was a result of, if you will, an artistic dialogue across disciplines. Today’s session, “Ekphrasis: Theory, Then Practice In Poems Inspired by Latino Art” inaugurates “PINTURA : PALABRA, a project in ekphrasis,” which aims to foment an extended dialogue between Latino poets and Latino art—in particular, the work in the “Our America” exhibit. The two presentations today strive, jointly, to serve as an introductory gesture of what we hope will be a fruitful period of ekphrastic Latino writing. [...]"

---FA, November 8, 2013, Washington, D.C.

Latino Art Now!, Nov. 8, 2013, Washington, D.C.

Tino Villanueva, Francisco Aragón, Eduardo C. Corral

Donor's Lounge, 4th floor

National Museum of the American Indian

Introducing the session

Tino Villanueva delivers:

"Picture This: The Ekphrastic Poem"

Slide 1:

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

attributed to Pieter Bruegel (1560s)

Slide 2

"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"

Marcel Duchamp (1912)

Slide 3

"Self portrait in a Convex Mirror"

Parmigianino (c. 1524)

Tino Villanueva

Tino Villanueva

Eduardo C. Corral

Slide 4

"Our Completion"

Tino Rodriguez (1999)

Slide 5

"Untitled (Perfect Lovers"

Felix Gonzalez Torres (1991)

Slide 6

"The Broken Column"

Frida Kahlo (1944)

Slide 7

"La Pelona"

Ester Hernández (1980)

Slide 8

"My Hands Are My Heart" (1)

Gabriel Orozco

Slide 9

"My Hands Are My Heart" (2)

Gabriel Orozco

Eduardo C. Corral reading ekphrastic poems inspired

by the images depicted above in slides 4 to 9.

Exhibit Catalogue (cover)