For a month, the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida
focuses on artworks by renowned artists, and young artists
who offer diverse proposals. Quality is the basis for selecting
the pieces to he exhibited, intending to offer seriousness and
credibility in every production. This is how the concepts of
creativeness and solidarity through art become tangible, visible,
and pleasant.
Arte en Mayo is an inclusive event that calls on the collector
and all those people who love art and are aware that a cultured
country is a more human and developed country.
Arte en las Calles
Art reaches the city streets to promote and democratize the
work of renowned national and international visual artists. For
nine consecutive years, in the month of January, a collection
of ten artworks is exhibited using ‘mupis’ -urban furniture for
illuminated outdoor advertising-. The city turns into a gallery
that shows this art collection distributed among 1000 two-sided
mupis placed throughout the urban context, seeking thereby
to appeal, in a casual and spontaneous manner, the interest
of people towards art.
Companies cosponsoring this activity provide passersby a
break from the turmoil of the big city, a space for reflexion. With
their contribution, they support the development of institutions
operating at Campus Médico San José with the sense that
art is for everyone and sensitizes us, and therefore, makes us
better people.
La Galería Rozas-Botrán
Before getting fully into describing La Galería, we would like
to highlight the philosophy inspiring the work at Fundación
Rozas-Botrán, and which is defined by the special place that
the Sacred Heart of Jesus occupies therein and to whom Jose
professes a special devotion that comes directly from an intimate
and essential identity. Therefore, in every site of the Fundación,
you may find a visual image of this representation of Jesus,
excelling, among them, the sculpture at the Main Altar of the
Chapel in Campus Médico San José.
In 2011, the second site of La Galería opens its doors in Zona
14. Coincidentally, the managers of Ciudad Cayalá concerted
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an alliance with Fundación Rozas-Botrán, through a branch of
La Galería managed by María Farias de Botrán, to coordinate
the cultural activities to be held at Paseo Cayalá.
La Galería, accomplishing 30 years of work in 2015, is a
contemporary space characterized for its innovating trend and
singular architecture. Its work is supported by an editorial programme
that gathers information about every artist and publishes it in
a series of catalogues. Through these spaces, the Fundación
has promoted the career of artists that are currently excelling
in the region of Central America, Panama, and abroad. Every
proposal is offered with reliability and credibility, the participation
of nearly 700 artists in the different programmes it has carried
out so far, grants value to the Central American and Panamanian
brand that is being developed.
Both venues of La Galería, at Zona 14 and Paseo Cayalá, are
devoted to promoting culture, and add value to the efforts of
Fundación Rozas-Botrán on resource mobilization and promotion
of new models to provide care for health and for research. The
contributions from artists and donations from other sources
are translated into programmes that advance and improve the
own quality of life and that of the others.
THE FUTURE OF FUNDACIÓN ROZAS-BOTRÁN
Jose Rozas-Botrán works on the elements that strengthen the
bonding of his relatives towards social advancement. This is how
Ana Clarisa Rozas-Botrán de Ochoa and her husband, Mario
Augusto Ochoa-Herrera, along with a group of parents, started
a new project called COELI. This institution is an occupational
learning centre that provides education and training to youth with
special capacities aiming to help them develop their skills in
different disciplines and become productive members of society.
In this same way, the seed is germinating in the next generation
that, having been brought up on solid values, already shows
enthusiasm and commitment towards the “Arte de Ayudar.”
Cristina Rozas-Botrán chairs La Revista and other innovative
activities that Fundación Rozas-Botrán develops in different
spaces at Paseo Cayalá.
Jesús Ramón and María Andrea Rozas-Botrán completed
their academic preparation abroad. Both of them have shown