‘Etoile des jardins’
Matta (Chile)
Print on carborundum on hand made paper

M2A2

In collaboration with the French Embassy of Trinidad & Tobago, CCA7 hosts ‘Espace des Amériques’ from M2A2, in both the Main Gallery and the InterAmericas Space, from Wednesday 19th December 2001 – Friday 18th January 2002.

This exhibition is a definitive collection of Latin American, Caribbean and Martinican Art. The exhibition is the collection of the Martinican Museum of the Arts of the Americas, otherwise known as M2A2 and was originally initiated by Édouard Glissant is well known writer and poet in both France and Martinique.

The collection includes the work of such emblematic figures such as Wilfredo Lam (Cuba), Matta (Chile), Augustín Cárdenas (Cuba), Antonio Suguí (Argentina) and other recent important artists from the region. These artists show a mixing of techniques, colour, schools and approaches, converging to harmonize and enrich the life force of the project. The works show the encounters between the artists and their successive contexts, where they lived and where they traveled, encounters between creations over the centuries and cultures – in one’s case with Africa or santeria and candomble, in another with the Taino Indians or in yet another the vision of the intrusion of American modernity in the Brazilian jungle and Marcel Duchamp in Buenos Aires.

The exhibition, which was previously in the National Gallery of Art in Jamaica. The collection then travels to Peru and through Latin America, before returning to Martinique, where it will be housed in a permanent space of M2A2 to be situated in Lamentin, Martinique.

Artists, students and those interested in the arts are encouraged to visit, as the opportunity to see the works of these regional masters may not always be accessible.

One of the sponsors for M2A2 is Canal Satellite Caraïbes, who will launch the number one satellite channel listing of French speaking channels in Trinidad & Tobago, at the exhibition. Subscribers in Trinidad & Tobago will be able to receive a satellite signal from Guadeloupe directly to their home which include an offer of 11 to 35 channels, including the famous Canal + and the number one European paid channel. For more information on Canal Satellite Caraïbes please call Jean Michel Gibert at 625 3262.

‘Espace des Amérique from M2A2’ was part of CCA’s continuous programme of exhibitions in both the Main gallery and the InterAmericas Space at CCA7 from December 18th 2001 to January 18th 2002.

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