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Artist Daniel Cosentino and UTRGV assistant professor of Photography Romeo Di Loreto present their collaborative exhibition "On Silence (Silenzio)," running from Oct. 2 to Oct. 30, 2024, at the UTRGV Rusteberg Art Gallery in Brownsville, Texas. The exhibition showcases Cosentino's work in traditional and modern photographic techniques, including platinum and palladium printing, intaglio and laser etching, metal gilding, and 3D printing. (Courtesy graphic)
Monday, September 30, 2024
Announcements, Arts
By Amanda A. Taylor-Uchoa
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – SEPT. 27, 2024 – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Art and Design is inviting media partners to attend a lecture and exhibition opening by renowned artist Daniel Cosentino as part of his one-week residency at UTRGV in collaboration with Romeo Di Loreto, assistant professor of Photography in UTRGV’s School of Art and Design.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Rusteberg Building, 65 Gorgas Dr., Brownsville, TX. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the UTRGV Rusteberg Art Gallery, 65 Gorgas Dr., Brownsville, TX.
Cosentino will discuss the theoretical and technical aspects of his work, which includes traditional platinum and palladium photographic printing, intaglio and laser etching, metal gilding, and 3D printing techniques.
The exhibition, titled "On Silence (Silenzio)," will run from October 2 to October 30, 2024. The exhibition is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between Cosentino and Di Loreto, which began in 2022.
"These images began as conversations or 'lessons,' as Romeo coined them, on the evolving presence of photography and its discourses," said Cosentino. "From these discussions, we explored a concept in our photographic work—in this case, 'silence,' which, it turns out, can be quite noisy and filled with tonalities."
Several works from this collaboration have been selected for numerous juried exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
Notably, Cosentino's work will be featured in the 2024 New Jersey Arts Annual at the Montclair Art Museum, opening on September 26, just prior to his residency at UTRGV.
Di Loreto's work has been selected for the Pingyao International Photography Festival in UNESCO-protected Shanxi, China.
"We are delighted to support this exhibition and lectures from Professor Cosentino and our own Professor Di Loreto. We look forward to this exhibition and the future exchanges it will produce," said Dr. Jeffrey Ward, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at UTRGV.
For more information about upcoming events at the UTRGV College of Fine Arts, visit: https://www.utrgv.edu/school-of-art/.
ABOUT UTRGV
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.
UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.