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A Cocktail Reception Launches the Portuguese Version of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens’ Audio Tour
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About 280 people gathered at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens recently to celebrate the launch of the Portuguese version of its new audio tour, Discover Vizcaya. The reception was hosted by the Honorable Hélio Vitor Ramos F., Consul General of Brazil in Miami, and Brickellian Founder Stella M. Holmes. “Vizcaya is a landmark of Miami and thus we are very glad to have a guided tour in Portuguese to its beautiful grounds. This accomplishment is yet another indication of the auspicious moment we are experiencing in the fruitful relationship between Brazil and Florida,” said Ambassador Ramos F.
Guillermo Ueno. Untitled. 2012 Journey
Estrangeiro Guillermo Ueno, West Encounters East
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I have never been in São Paulo – for seven days we probably entered from the east, and at the time of greatest peace and quietness, we entered a familiar territory where we could be tourists, researchers, makers of images, tellers of fantastic stories, foreign painters running downhill, with bread and bananas as food, sheets of paper and brushes confirming the illusion of time, hours drawing in the barracks hoping for the rain so as not to go out and thus be able to draw their mates, their new landscape, that life they were making up. That place is WEE, a smart and intense jumble, a mixture of childhood and history where I felt fraternity instantly, I thought I recognized the same place that we come from. It is odd – Japan does not remind me of Japan but my childhood does remind me of that country and I even think it does so in a more definitive fashion. I knew Japan when I was 20, a place where no one knew that they themselves lived in remote locations, among unknown fruit, exotic languages and different faces, the analogous Japan. In a recent trip to São Paulo I ended up understanding that I was there and took pictures but when I see the pictures, the territory becomes the intangible energy of WEE, so then, how can I photograph it?
Ms. Holmes, who is also a member of the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust, is a major supporter of the translation of the tour in to Portuguese. “Miami is Vizcaya’s home, but like all great works of art, it belongs to the world,” she said. “I have always believed that art is a wonderful bridge of communication between cultures. With this Portuguese version of the Vizcaya’s audio tour, we warmly welcome visitors from Brazil and South Florida’s Portuguese-speaking residents.” “The addition of a Portuguese version of the Discover Vizcaya audio tour reflects the ever-increasing international visitors to Miami-Dade County’s most popular visual arts museum,” said Vizcaya’s Executive Director Joel Hoffman. Built between 1914 and 1922, Vizcaya was the Miami estate of International Harvester Vice President James Deering. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is now designated a National Historic Landmark and is owned and operated by Miami-Dade County. The Discover Vizcaya audio tour, which is about 90 minutes long, guides visitors through the main spaces and primary ideas associated with Vizcaya at their own pace. It’s also available in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.
For more information visit Vizcaya´s website at www.vizcayamuseum.org
West Encounters East ® 9.12 For more information visit The Brickellian´s website at www.thebrickellian.com
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