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Feb. 15--Amigos Artistas founder Dr. Romeo Montalvo was the first person in Brownsville to own one of Mexico City artist Saul Kaminer's works.
The painting, called "Alta Mar," was part of a one-person Kaminer show before the Organization of American States.
It's appropriate, then, that Amigos Artistas Friday will hold a reception with Kaminer and exhibit his works at the Historic Brownsville Museum.
"The purpose of Amigos Artistas was to do this every year," Montalvo, a Brownsville pediatrician, said of the group's fifth-annual show featuring a prominent artist.
Kaminer called the exhibit "a retrospective" because it includes works from 1988 to 2005 and encompasses painting, sculpture and mixed media.
"I need to express in different media my language," Kaminer said.
When asked to describe how his style had changed over the years, Kaminer said it had become "maybe more open."
Although born in Mexico City, Kaminer spent 21 years in Paris. He said he moved there because Mexico's "artist constellation" was small.
Now, he said, artists were in every corner of Mexico, and the number of well-known names was greater than the handful it was years ago.
"It was like kind of a Big Bang -- an artistic Big Bang," he said.
Brownsville collectors, including Montalvo, own 15 of Kaminer's works.
Kaminer said art provides an "amplification of conscience," something Montalvo hopes those who see contemporary art for the first time at Friday's reception can share.
"I think if we get our art students from the university and from our high schools, this will be an impression," he said.
Kaminer's works will be displayed for more than a month at the museum and then for a month in Matamoros.
Amigos Artistas has produced an 80-page catalogue of Kaminer's works to commemorate the reception and exhibition.
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If You Go
-- What: "Source of Light and Shadow" exhibit and reception for artist Saul Kaminer
-- When: 6:30 p.m. Friday
-- Where: Historic Brownsville Museum, 641 E. Madison St.
-- Cost: Free
-- For more information, visit www.amigosartistas.org or call the Historic Brownsville Museum at (956) 548-1313.
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