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Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Culture inaugurated the National Biennial of Visual Arts 2025, dedicated to the painter, drawer, and educator Elsa Núñez, one of the "most influential" figures of Dominican contemporary art.
At the ceremony, held on Saturday night, the Minister of Culture, Roberto Salcedo, presented the artist with a plaque of recognition for her more than six decades of career, marked by a poetic work, socially committed and of great aesthetic sensitivity, the ministry specified in a note.
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Salcedo announced that he will present to the Executive Branch a draft decree for the formation of a permanent Biennial committee, which will guarantee greater stability in its organization. Likewise, he announced that for the 2027 edition, the prize amounts will be increased, with the purpose of making the participation of artists more attractive. For her part, Núñez expressed feeling deeply moved to receive the tribute, highlighting the importance of it taking place at the Biennial, which has been a space for searching, breaking, and rebirths. It was also pointed out that a path taken, with its lights and shadows, is rewarded. "Art is a form of resistance, of naming what hurts, what burns," expressed the creator, who affirmed that her work has been a way of dialoging with the country, with its contortions and its wounded beauty. The Biennial Grand Prize, endowed with one million pesos, was awarded to the work 'Healing Ritual', by the artist Lucía Méndez Rivas. In addition, nine awards of 300,000 pesos each and two honorable mentions were granted. The Biennial has established itself as the main stage for exhibition, reflection, and promotion of the visual arts in the country, renewing in the present edition its commitment to celebrate identity, preserve memory, and project the future of national art, the information specified.
