Erwin de Vries is by no means part of a rare breed of Surinamese artists, the country has blossomed with artists over the past few decades and both artists and audience continue to grow and maintain an evolving Surinamese art world. As Rinaldo Klas, artist and director at the Nola Hatterman institute in Paramaribo, comments: ‘There are more and more visitors at every exhibition nowadays, the audience is growing literally and figuratively. People ask more questions now. The public approaches you more readily’.
The uniqueness of Surinamese art is evoked by the ‘Federation of Suriname Visual Art’ which declares that Surinamese art gets its particular power from the ‘the brightness and the heat of the sun, as well as the different ethnic groups living there:Amerindians, Creoles, Indians, Javanese, Chinese, Lebanese, Jews and Europeans, who have mixed through the ages and produced fascinating ‘mixtures’’.
The Federation of Suriname Visual Art brings together individual and groups of artists, art dealers, galleries and other members of the art world in Suriname. Their website provides an insight to the exuberant art that Surinamese artists produce, reflecting a culture that provides an important contribution to the South American art world.
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