Romance curated by Peter Menendez

February 9 - April 6, 2014

In 1998 the album titled “Romance “ by pop singer Luis Miguel was released to critical and popular acclaim.  The twelve recorded songs celebrated the bolero and instantly revived the genre into the mainstream in Latin American countries, Spain and the United States. The exhibition Romance takes its cue from the songs that make up this landmark CD and ponders the relationships between sound and lyrics, of memory and visual statement. 

A line of text from each of the twelve songs in the CD has been randomly provided as spring board in the creation of art, opening dialogues that could reflect and move on unhindered from their source of origin, not unlike the chance interactions between Cage, Cunningham and Rauschenberg, or the goings-on between the surrealists with their exquisite corpse experimentations. 

- Peter Menendez