Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Presents:
FWACATA!
June 25th - July 9th, 2010
Dominican Village Presentation, FRI, June 25th (7- 11PM)

Curated by Christian Montalvo with Miguel Trelles

Abrazo Interno Gallery
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street (between Rivington & Delancey)
Lower East Side (F, J,M,Z to Essex)

OPENING DATE: FRIDAY , JUNE 25th from 7- 11PM

FEATURED ARTIST:

Christian "XIAN" Montalvo
Antonio Montalvo
Wilson Ramos, Jr.
Jun Nuñez
Chevez Sanchez
Anibal Arroyo
Marivel Mejia
David Quiles
Robert Nuñez

Live Percussions by : Kako Sanchez

Spoken word edutainment by :Taina & company
special thanks to Yenny Love

More events to accompany the FWACATA movement so stay tuned!!
at fwacata.blogspot.com/

Featured as the visual art exhibition component of the Dominican Village @ the Abrazo Interno Gallery of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (ADDRESS), Fwacata! Look at My Hands addresses Caribbean history through sequential art.

La Bande Dessinée (BD), los paquitos, manga (in its contemporary sense) or comic books were first published in the United States around the 1930s. By the 60’s it had become clear that they were not really all that “comic”, and that their artists were really graphic novelists creating what Will Eisner later called sequential art or, in the prescient assessment of the French, “the ninth art.”

Fwacata! is both a visual arts exhibition and a comic book The show plumbs the tension between the gallery and the comic book striving for synergies between the wall and the page, aware of the comic book medium’s Pop genealogy in the gallery and of its coming of age as literature.

This visual haiku by contemporary Latino comic book creators focuses on hands, those hands that played the drumbeat of Caribbean history, rowing from one island to the next and beyond. Based on an original poem by Christian Montalvo, this historical rumination has been co-curated by the author, a self-published graphic artist and co-founder of Alpha Godz Entertainment along with his brother Antonio Montalvo. Co-curator Miguel Trelles is a visual artist in residence at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center.

Fwacata! Look at My Hands is a collaborative effort between Alpha Godz Entertainment (A.G.E. Studios), and a number of Local Latino based Comic Studios, including Section 8 Comics (Wilson Ramos-Jr.), Cabezón Studios (Jun Nuñez, Chévez Sánchez), MAS Media Studios (Aníbal Arroyo) as well as Maribel Mejía and David Quiles. The collective understands that as Latino Comic creators, they follow in the footsteps of such contemporary trail blazers as the Hernández Brothers, George Pérez, Javier Saltares and the late Carlos Meglia, to name just a few.We hope you can join us for this historical artistic event.