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The following brief summary of the activities
of our organization fairly represents the path that is being opened:
1)
Twenty-one issues of Manos Artesanas;
2) Nine issues of
Nuestra Platería magazine;
3) Fifteen theme catalogs
published;
4) Two books published:
Aperos Criollos. Arte y Tradición, and El Poncho. Arte y
Tradición.
5) Ten exhibits organized
in five-star hotels in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata;
6) Six auctions organized
at the art market —took place next to the Bank of the City
of Buenos Aires;
7) Nine exhibits presented
in Argentina: three at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, two
at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish American
Art, and the rest, at the José Hernández Museum of
Argentine Popular Motifs, at the Argentine Rural Society (twice)
and in Bragado, within the frame of the Provincial Horse Fair;
8) International shows
of the work of silversmith Juan Carlos Pallarols in Santiago de
Chile (Summit of the Americas) and in Tokyo, Japan (both in 1998);
9) In 2001, an exhibit
entitled “Stirrups, spurs & saddles: Gaucho Silver from
Argentina” was co-organized with Eguiguren, Arte de Hispanoamérica,
in the US. This exhibit remained open for three months in the rooms
of the Museo de las Americas (Denver, Colorado, USA).
10) In 2002, a new
exhibit, "Aperos Criollos en las tierras del Plata y en América"
(Creole Riding Gear in the Lands of the River Plate and in America)
was presented within the frame of the IV Juegos Ecuestres Mundiales
(IV World Equestrian Games), at Jerez de la Frontera, the birthplace
of the Spanish horse. Over fifty saddles and riding gear from all
the Americas were exhibited at the Salas Nobles (Noble Rooms) of
the Alcázar Real, in the south of Spain.
11) Besides, in the
last few years we have conducted over thirty television programs,
aired on cable TV, among which it is worth mentioning the cycle
“Pincelada Nacional”, broadcast on Canal Rural through
most of Latin America.
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