No, that’s not really a bird. It’s a flying raffle-ticket holder. Or a work of art.
JANE WOOLDRIDGE“A Tongue to Utter & Ballerinas,” by Carlos Alfonzo, at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,
Within a decade after arriving in Miami via the Mariel boatlift, Carlos Alonzo was winning acclaim from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Cintas Foundation and the 1991 Whitney Biennial; he died a month before the show opened from AIDS. A chance meeting at the Miami “first communion” celebration between a collector and Miami gallerist Sergio Cernuda of Miami’s LnS Gallery led to the reunification of Alzono’s most monumental work, an 11 x 16 expressionist painting, and the three kinetic ballerina sculptures created to accompany it. The work conveyed Alonzo’s criticism of Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, who visited the U.S. praising the Cuban government in the 1980s. After Cernuda was asked to place the canvas, he tracked down the ballerinas. The dancers and their stunning backdrop are at the Lowe Museum until March, when they move to the European home of a private collector next year.
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