Sunday, December 11, 2011

“José Ramón Rotellini: Escultor Dominicano”

“José Ramón Rotellini: Escultor Dominicano”
Elder Darrel L. Hammon

José Ramón Rotellini and Bennie Lilly
The day dawned early for us. We went on a special tour today with Brother José Rotellini. Sometime ago, I learned he was a sculptor of some merit here in the Dominican Republic who is actually quite famous among the art crowd. He has worked at the University—Universidad Autónomo de Santo Domingo (USAD)—for some years and still does.
José Ramón Rotellini
José Ramón Rotellini, the son

Juan Pablo Duarte
In the art world, he is known as José Ramón Rotellini who began his artistic studies in the Dominican Republic and spent a couple of years in Spain honing his sculpturing craft and his ideas. He has won many awards for his sculptures that have been placed in numerous public and private places throughout the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Martinica, and Spain.
Brother and Sister Rotellini are the Thursday coordinators at the Bishops’ Storehouse and work in the Santo Domingo Temple on Friday evenings. They are truly amazing people. And we were able to find a little more about Brother Rotellini and his incredible talent that he has passed down to his son also named José Rotellini who help his father guide us on this tour I have titled: “José Ramón Rotellini: Escultor Dominicano”. The depth of each piece is intricate and detailed. We were pleased to view just a few of his pieces:


La Justicia
  • Estatua de “la Justicia” en el Palacio de Justicia, just a few blocks from where we live
  • Busto de Eugenio M. De Hostos, a bronze near the Iglesia Regina in the Zona Colonial
  • Estatua de Patricio Juan Pablo Duarte, Bronce, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD)
  • Busto de Patricio Juan Pablo Duarte (He has done many of Juan Pablo Duarte who is considered one of the fathers of the Dominican Republic)
  • Mural, “El Cangrejo,” located on the Malecón, one of the main travel arteries in Santo Domingo that winds its way along the ocean front
  • Bustos de “los Trinitarios”—Juan Pablo Duarte, Fransciso del Rosario Sanchez, and Matías Ramón Mella, Pedro Alejandrino Piña, Vincente C. Duarte (brother to Juan Pablo Duarte), y Juan Isidro Pérez. These busts are located in the Museo de Duarte, which is the old home of where Juan Pablo Duarte was born.
  • Estatua de “Musa de la Pintura” outside the Palacio de Bellas Artes
José Ramón Rotellini and "Musa de la Pintura"
We enjoyed our time immensely. Brother Rotellini and his son are incredible artists whose talents far exceed their contemporaries. We wish we had had time to have seen all of them, but I think it would take us years to do because José Ramón Rotellini has over 130 of them around the world. Some of the ones we saw today were a joint effort between the two of them. The Dominican Republic government commissioned many of the works of art, particularly the ones of former governmental leaders.

5 comments:

  1. That is so amazing. The statues are gorgeous.

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  2. Yes, they are. Plus, Hermano Rotellini is an incredible sculptor.

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  3. el mejor maestro , un profesor excelente !!!

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  4. Shelly, gracias por su comentario! Me imagino que usted es muy talentosa también, especialmente si Hermano Rotellini fue su maestro/profesor. Tiene algunas esculturas o pinturas que puede mostrarme?

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