“Art and Idiocy” exhibit opens at House of Culture

There are two exhibitions by well-known artists who are shaking up the art scene in the old Capital. The first event for the week is taking place at the House of Culture entitled “Art and Idiocy” by Lola Delgado of Seine Bight. It is the first solo exhibit by the fifty-six year old artist and took six months to create. News Five caught up with Delgado this afternoon who says that the title of the exhibit was inspired by her grandson and marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening of her gallery in Seine Bight.

Lola Delgado, Artist
“The name of the show actually came from my little grandson because I started preparing for the show six month ago, a bit more than six months ago and I never got a name that pleased me. And one day he was playing outside with his trucks and came in all muddy and I said boy look at the state you’re in that’s idiocy. So he said, he was so unrepentant, he was grinning up with me and he said grandma what’s idiocy and I said that’s when you do crazy things. And at that time I was working on that painting over there called no skinny dipping and this is a nude man who’s skinny dippy and he’s just about to jump into the mouth of a shark. So we were sitting together in the evening and he looked at the painting and he said granny, that’s idiocy right and just at that point it came to me—that’s the name of my show—Art and Idiocy. Most of them are based on women, women in different colours, black, yellow, blue, you know whatever catches my fancy because I paint a lot of women. Some of them are fantasy scenes, some are, you know, the fauna and flora of Belize, the jaguar, a bit of that.”

Duane Moody
“What is the price range more or less?”

Lola Delgado
“The price ranges from a hundred and fifty to one thousand Belize for this selection. We also have six pieces that will be given away at the reception this evening, if you can guess the name of the painting. I think finally I’ve reached the point where I own my own gallery, I own my gift shops and I’d like them to see. The people that know me before, to see where I came from what I’ve done here and people that don’t know my work, I’d like them to come and see.”

The exhibit ends on April thirtieth. The other exhibit is by Pen Cayetano which we’ll carry in our newscast on Thursday.