Upcoming Guest Lectures

The Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program is proud to present the artist duo, Guerra de la Paz as our Summer 2012 Visiting Artist. Their exhibition, Guerra de la Paz: Until Now, runs from May 24 – July 14, 2012 in RMCAD’s Philip J. Steele Gallery. Please join us for the exhibition opening on Thursday, May 24 from 6 – 9 pm. The evening will also include a free public lecture by the artists at 7 pm in the Mary Harris Auditorium.

Running concurrently with their exhibition at the Philip J. Steele Gallery, Guerra de la Paz will create Trench, a site-specific, large-scale earthwork on the RMCAD campus, sponsored by the VASD Program. Trench, to be located in the ditch that runs along RMCAD’s Texas Building, will be composed of clothing gathered from rag trades in Miami and local donations. The result will read as a river of clothing, a filled trench, a mass burial site.

In their RMCAD lecture, “Until Now: Guerra de la Paz,” the artists will present an overview of their sixteen-year long collaboration, which began with two-dimensional work and transitioned to work almost exclusively based on clothing.

Guerra de la Paz is the composite name of Cuban-born, Miami-based artist duo Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, who have been collaborating since 1996. Guerra de la Paz’s work, while focusing on sculpture and installation, ranges in terms of media to include painting, photography, and video. Their upcoming exhibition, Guerra de la Paz: Until Now, will feature several sculptural works, video, and paintings. The form and materials of their work reference the politics of contemporary social conflict and consumerism, alongside almost archaeological investigations into spirituality via the found clothing that forms the basis of their work.

Guerra de la Paz have exhibited widely internationally, and have shown in venues such as the Saatchi Gallery in London, Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin, Miami Art Museum, and many others. Guerra de la Paz’s work has been recently reviewed in Art News and the Art in America, and their work graced the Jan-Feb 2011 cover of Sculpture magazine.

Opening Reception
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6 – 9 pm
Philip J. Steele Gallery

Public Lecture
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7 pm
Mary Harris Auditorium
The lecture is free and open to the public; however, reservations are recommended.