B'TOWN MUSEUM OF FINE ART EXHIBIT ELICITS REACTIONS

(Ed.'s Note: The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art has brought you flying men, overturned Greek [or Roman?] heads, a fake King Tut, and some stuff that is, frankly, undecipherable to the average layman without the benefit of art appreciation training. But their new exhibit, the "Soul of Urban Man" has struck a chord on local motorists passing by the frontage road near the intersection with East Price Road. Where some may see a tangle of rebar and concrete, the artist, Rosendo Perika, of the art commune outside San Miguel Allende, sees the deterioration of modern culture and man's reach for redemption. The BMFA is paying Perike untold bundles of cash to exhibit his works of art in the open air around town. "Mr. Perika likes to exhibit his works where the people can see them, where they travel, where it can have an impact on their daily lives," said a curator at the museum. Perika uses mixed media such as rebar and concrete chunks to impress the futility of modern man to survive in an urban setting, according to a pamphlet on the exhibit. While the average observer may think that the chunks of concrerte are just that, to someone who appreciates fine art and expression they actually symbolize the uprooting of modern man from his connection with Mother Earth and the strands of rebar his aspiration for freedom for the everyday bonds that keep the soul entangled in the material world. The exhibit will continue indefinitely or until the owner of the property can afford to construct a new building on the lot.)