Fourth edition of Camaradas UK-Mexico Art Competition

Menier Gallery
​51 Southwark St, London SE1 1RU
from the 14th to 18th of March 2017
​The opening cocktail and award ceremony will be on Tuesday 14th March at 6 pm.

Gary Black joins me (Fernando) as a true ‘camarada’.
We both though in a topic related to our current global social affairs, and more specifically with the current proposed project of building a wall between Mexico and the USA.
Title of the work: ‘la nueva division’
 ('The new division')

The scope of the work is a photograph made by Gary entitled ‘Brick Mac’ and a Painting made by Fernando, entitled ‘Big & beautiful’.
‘Brick Mac’ (2017- 42 x 59 cm photograph By Gary Black)
‘Big, Beautiful’ (2017 - 350x185 cms Oil on canvas By Fernando Holguin Cereceres)
Both works depicting the wall as a concept in the current social concerns.

The jury Jenny White, Head of Visual Arts Program at the British Council; Catherine Petitgas, Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary art, collector, patron and benefactor; George Blacklock, Dean of Chelsea College of Art, as well as the curator and founder of the Chalton Gallery, Javier Calderon

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