Basque Art in Indiana

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Indiana presents biggest Basque artists' exhibit ever in US

"From Rust to Restoration: Basque Art and the Bilbao Effect" will display works by 20 artists at both the Center for Visual and Performing Arts in Munster and the IU Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art in Gary.

After months of hard work, last week the Vice Deans of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of the Basque Country, Jose Mari Herrera and Ismael Manterola, travelled to Indiana alongside administrator Gotzone Sagardui to witness the staging of the exhibit "From Rust to Restoration: Basque Art and the Bilbao Effect." They were shocked by the careful work organizers were carrying out to prepare the show of 20 Basque artists.

Among the painters and sculptors to showcase their works are Jesus Mari Lazkano, Jesus Lizaso, Angel Garraza, Jose Angel Lasa, Alfonso Gortazar, Daniel Tamayo, Javier Villarreal, Jose Ramon Anda, Sonia Rueda, Luis Candaudap, Iñaki de Lafuente and Dora Salazar.

Jose Mari Herrera has been arranging the exhibit for months. From Chicago, Herrera told Radio Euskadi that he received "around 50 dossiers of Basque artists" from the University of the Basque Country "and we chose around 20 of them and 40 of their works."

Presented concurrently at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts in Munster, Indiana, and the IU Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art in Gary, "From Rust to Restoration: Basque Art and the Bilbao Effect" will be open from December 4, 2006 to February 18, 2007.

Of course there was never something like this going on throughout the time I lived three hours away from Gary, Indiana.

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