Hispanic American art collective “Quinta Mirada” unveils new exhibition in Boston

Boston, USA.- The Hispanic American art collective “Quinta Mirada,” known for its contemporary surrealist style, has unveiled its latest exhibition titled “Nahual, Deities and Spells – The Contemporary Artist as Shaman.” The show is currently being held at the Mary L. Fifield Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College and is open to the public from Monday to Friday until April 18th of this year.

Curated by the gallery’s director, Kevin Wery, and Dominican-American artist Jimmy Valdez Osaku, who is also exhibiting his work alongside a selection from the collective’s members, the exhibition showcases the growth of “Quinta Mirada” since its founding in Chile. The collective has expanded to include new members from various countries and nationalities such as Mexico, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and two artists in residence on the continent originally from Japan and Austria.

The exhibition is described as a kaleidoscopic range of images, colors, lines, and dimensions that dynamically transform. Focusing on a surrealist and historically grounded anthropomorphism, the works feature intuitive and bizarre creatures that act as predators in an absurd universe, subjected to the strange torment of institutionalized banality. This elevates and threatens a hidden cosmos, invisible for centuries, which a new generation of shaman artists has dreamt into existence in our current times and circumstances.

The artworks are considered of transcendental importance, representing one of the most significant contemporary surrealist groups in the Americas. Among the participating artists are Miguel Ángel Huerta Zúñiga (founder of the collective), a painter from Chile; Guillermo Grebe, painter, Chile; Jacki Praxedes, painter, Chile; Iñaki Muñoz, painter, Chile; José Duarte, painter, Chile; Enrique de Santiago, painter, Chile; Sergio Bozón, painter, Argentina; Rosalba Hernández, painter, Dominican Republic; Yupica, painter and filmmaker, Mexico/Japan; Bernhard Hetzenauer, filmmaker, Austria/Mexico; Ricardo Ayón Matzuwa, painter, Mexico; Saúl Kaminer, painter and sculptor, Mexico; and Jimmy Valdez Osaku, painter, writer and sculptor from the USA/Dominican Republic.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Monday to Friday until April 18th of this year, after which it will travel to New York City, specifically to the event and exhibition hall of the Dominican Republic’s External Culture Office, with the date to be announced.

Admission to the exhibition is completely free and is open to the public during the following hours: The Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery (Building A), Bunker Hill Community College, 250 Rutherford Ave, Boston, MA 02129, from 12 PM to 4 PM, Monday to Friday (or by appointment).

For more information, please contact the gallery or the exhibition organizers.