7300 días en la coleccíon de Juan Manuel Portela Bisonó
A la memoria de Gachy Bisonó de Portela
Collector: Juan Manuel Portela Bisonó
Curators: Sara Hermann, Joel Butler Fernández y Danilo de los Santos
Museographer: Leticia Moronta
Date: March – June 2016
Venue: Centro León
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Press:
Periódico Hoy – Los 7,300 días de Juan Portela
Periódico Hoy – Centro León Jimenes expone colección Juan Manuel Portela Bisonó
Ritmo Social – 7300 días en la colección de Juan Manuel Portela Bisonó
This is an exhibition that aims to enhance the figure of the art collector as a driving force of the cultural scene. His art collection is, in this case, an object of study in itself. From its contents, narrations are generated and parallel stories that evolve from three discursive axes addressed in five thematic areas. The discursive axes that are touched upon as points of intersection that provide the narrative tension of the show are: The act of collecting, the collection and the collector.
The exhibition is composed of 5 thematic areas that are: Surroundings Commitment, Consistency, Variations and Dissonances. 7.300 days equal twenty years of collecting, and as an exhibition is an exchange dialogue project that’s starts from the curatorial team and the collector himself, expanding to the institution and its publics.
Awarded with the prize for Best collective exhibition of 2016 by the Dominican Art Critics Association ADCA-AICA