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Sacramental Light
January 22—April 22, 2007
Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
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"Sacramental Light" will feature over thirty important works from the private collection of Puerto Rican philanthropists Antonio and Lola Roig Ferré. These extraordinary devotional objects and paintings depicting saints and biblical scenes present the interaction between Hispano-Catholic and indigenous Central and South American religious and artistic traditions in 17th and 18th century colonial art of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Puerto Rico.
The exhibit includes important canvases from the School of Cuzco and a variety of Central and South American ateliers. Silver liturgical objects and unique folkloric sculptures round out this comprehensive display of viceregal period religious art. In addition, the exhibition will include vestments from the same period on loan from Santa Clara University.
While many similar exhibitions have focused on the European impact on indigenous arts and religious practice, the works in "Sacramental Light" demonstrate how the Catholic visual and devotional traditions were deeply influenced and changed by their contact with the arts and religious cultures of the Americas. As such, the works in the exhibit suggest important issues around the questions of inculturation of Catholic and indigenous religious imagery in the New World.
Opening Reception and Curator Walk-Through
January 25, 4:00-6:00 pm
4:00 pm
Walk-Through with Curator Fr. Thomas Lucas, S.J.
Symposium on Sacramental Light: A scholarly conference on themes of cultural and religious inculturation.
February 3, 2007
1:00 pm
Fromm Hall, USF (Campus Map & Directions)
Followed immediately by a reception in the Thacher Gallery
Presenters:
Gauvin Bailey, Boston College, Author of Art of Colonial Latin America (2005) and Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 (2001)
Marcus Burke, Curator, The Hispanic Society of America
Jaime Lara, Associate Professor of Christian Art & Architecture, and Chair, Program in Religion and the Arts, Yale Divinity School
Thomas Lucas, SJ, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, and Director, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco
Thomas Lucas S.J., curator of the exhibit and director of the Thacher Gallery at USF, says “This exhibit will offer an important contribution to our understanding of interrelationship between the visual and devotional traditions of Europe and the Americas. While many studies focus almost exclusively on the European impact on indigenous arts and religious practice, this exhibit shows how the Catholic visual and devotional traditions were deeply influenced and changed by their contact with the arts and religious cultures of the Americas. The Roig-Ferré Collection is a remarkable depository of great art and a tremendous resource for the study of cultural and religious inculturation.”
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