Pen and Ingrid Cayetano open Ubagari exhibition
A staple of his annual pilgrimage home, this month renown local artist Pen Cayetano will debut his latest collection of paintings to the Belizean public. This morning News Five’s Janelle Chanona got a preview.
Janelle Chanona, Reporting
For the first time in Belize, master artist Pen Cayetano and his wife Ingrid are hosting a joint exhibition at the House of Culture. It?s titled Ubagari or Life Art.
The centrepiece of Pen?s collection is called ?Belize 2005? a rendering of the civil disturbances that rocked Belize.
Delvin ?Pen? Cayetano, Artist
?These pieces that I brought along is mostly about what happened the other day among the cultural and political movements that happened last year, 2005. And I did also some paintings pertaining to the deaths of the kids in Belize as well as Garifuna paintings and historical paintings like the landing of Lindbergh. For the total exhibition here, I want to show the people here that yeah, life is not a dream, it?s a hard reality and we are passing through it right now.?
Cayetano and his wife Ingrid are partners in life and love for music and art.
In 1975, Ingrid spent eight days in the hospital having her tonsils removed. To fill the long days she used needle and thread to express herself artistically. Her meticulous attention to detail means hundreds of hours of dedication but the finished pieces speak for themselves.
Ingrid Cayetano, Artist
?When I do a piece, like when someone does a portrait I get a picture, a photograph. I did Pen, I did myself … I have the herbalist Barbara Fernandez here. I get her photograph and I draw it myself or several times, I get it to the copy places and I copy it on the cloth and from there I just stitch it out.?
Interest in the medium has prompted Ingrid to offer classes in the skill while she?s in Belize.
Ingrid Cayetano
?I would like to show. I was telling them we could do some workshops here with some kids. So tomorrow we are going to invite some schools and next week Monday and Tuesday, we?ll be here too.?
Reporting for News Five, I am Janelle Chanona
All the pieces are on sale. The exhibition officially opens tonight and will run until the end of the month.
