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Aquarellists honored Francisco Amighetti with unpublished works

As part of the celebration of the centennial birth of the artist Francisco (Paco) Amighetti, the Costa Rican Association of Aquarellists (Costacuarela) present the exhibition “Gathering with Paco” (Tertulias con Don Paco) in the gallery Sophia Wanamaker in the Costa Rican American Cultural Center (CCCN), located in San Pedro.

"The purpose of this project was to permit the artists gain an intimate conversation with Amighetti achieving a connection between the artist's original work and style of each painter,” said Juan Diego Roldan, coordinator of the gallery.

The sample consists of 50 unpublished works of artists members of the Costacuarela group.
On the first floor of the gallery you can see works more realistic pieces, and in the second, the more abstract works.

The artists were inspired in different ways, illustrating the poems of Don Paco or with illustrations and text of the autobiographical artist.
For example, Ana Elena Fernandez presented the book: The girl who is facing the westerly. In it, Fernandez embodied in the paper a watercolor piece inspired by the poem.

For his part, the painter Walter Herrera was inspired by one of the engravings of Amighetti, in which a child appears spying a naked woman.
Herrera interprets this scene in two watercolors paint, in front and in the back with its own style. A transparent acrylic allows the appreciation of both sides of the piece.

The realization of this show took a whole year of planning, because, in the process, each artist had to study the life of Don Paco and his philosophy, and then tried to do something new, commented Grace Herrera Amighetti, president of the Association of Aquarellists.

According to Juan Diego Roldan, this exhibition gives you a sense of satisfaction. This is a way to shown that there are artists who are paying to universalize their art work.
The exhibition will be open until November 29, Monday through Friday from 8 a. m to 7:30 p. m., and Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.