Bear Guerra: Postcards from Invisible Cities September 5, 2009

Bear Guerra: Postcards from Invisible Cities
Photographs 2005-2009

Photographer Roberto (Bear) Guerra will be exhibiting “Postcards from Invisible Cities: Photographs 2005-2009” at L. Nowlin Gallery September 1-October 31, 2009. The opening reception will be held on Sat., September 5, 2009 from 6-8p.m. with light refreshments by Café Josie. As part of West End Gallery Night, additional receptions will be held on Thursday, Sept. 3rd and Oct. 1st, 2009 from 6–8 p.m.

Bear Guerra has focused much of his work on humanitarian and social issues around the world; his most recent projects being in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Haiti, Turkey, and the U.S. Bear's images and photo essays have been published widely, and his work has been in numerous exhibitions - most recently in the 2008 International World Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain.

In Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities, the emperor Kublai Khan listens to Marco Polo's travels throughout the vast Mongol Empire. In the end, Khan concludes that all cities are ultimately the same- human desires, dreams, fears, and memories have more in common than not. A modern-day version of Marco Polo's travel stories, Bear’s “postcards” are part of an ongoing body of work where human commonalities are revealed, and dissimilarities fade.

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