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PRESS RELEASE Ancient Music Festival
Event: Paintings Exhibition
Who can catch the color of music, Music, with its scales and harmonies... painting, with its strokes and scales of colors, produce intense emotions by stimulating sight or hearing. We can enjoy a concert as intensely as we can contemplate a painting, but why don't we let us surround by notes and colors at the same time for the delight of one's mind ? Mixing sensations is a physical disorder known as "synesthesia". There are thus persons who "see" smells or sounds, though for art lovers (either creators or spectators) synesthesia is a virtue which can multiply art's esthetic pleasure by melting visual feelings with auditive or sensitive ones. Some art forms have adopted the means of two arts to enrich the feelings, such as dance, opera, etc. The Municipal Institute of Culture of Queretaro (Mexico) invites us to experience this multiple sensations with the Festival of Ancient Music. The exhibit presented from November 22, "The Color of Music", in the Gallery Rosario Sanchez de Losada, with recent works by Javier Perez-Duarte, is a step more in the platonic romance music and painting have lived since ancient times. Music and painting have always lived a mutual fascination. There has existed curiosity or interest in one towards the other, perhaps as a desire of complementarity, since by their own essence (pigments and acoustic waves) they cannot blend. The contemporary expressions "audiovisual" are a reflection of this fascination. However, how many times have we listened to some music while being flown to imaginary landscapes? how many times, burrowed in the painting of a landscape or a romantic scene, have we not added the music which would complement it? Music and painting have been trusted partners in the long road of art history: from its primitive beginnings to baroque, unto classicism and romanticism. Impressionism in painting, and impressionism in music, are the recent proof of this identity quest. Abstract painting courts serial and dissonant music. To celebrate the Ancient Music Festival which brings together several artistic events, Javier Perez Duarte, painter and architect, was invited to present his paintings where music occupies the largest place. The oil paintings shown have music sown in their canvas. Music will be in the background, while interpreters and instruments will be the main actors. If we let ourselves go, we will feel the rhythm, the harmony and the colors caught in the pictures by oil and white spirit. The artist, passionate music fan, takes part in the homage to "ancient" music and instrument making appreciated in Queretaro, presenting for the first time a collection of paintings in which the magic and mystery surrounding medieval musicians is recreated.
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