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Gallery opens sex, AIDS exhibit
Nunnery's museum
offers link between
religion, sensuality
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In an unconven
tional art gallery, a new exhibit of daring oil
paintings and sculptures explicitly depicts
sexual acts and links them with religion.
It’s a gallery run by Catholic nuns.
Known as ReBarn — A Center For Spiri
tuality and Art, the gallery is operated by
the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
Housed in a renovated, century-old bam, the
gallery sits next to the nunnery’s mother-
house and retirement center.
The new exhibit by Houston artist Donell
Hill titled “Spiritual, Sensual, Sexual” also
includes a body of work called “Inner AIDS,”
depicting the plight of people with AIDS.
ReBam director Sister Alice Holden said
that the show is the “most upsetting” exhibit
held at ReBarn since it opened about three
years ago.
“It was upsetting to a couple of people,”
Sister Holden said. “It is explicit because it
is the beautification of sexuality.”
Among the exhibit pieces are flesh-colored
clay sculptures of genitalia, embedded in
flower-like formations and also oil paintings
depicting sexual intercourse and other pas
sionate expressions.
One painting, which Ms. Hill calls “Initia
tion,” portrays an angel having intercourse
at an altar.
Ms. Hill said that at a Valentine’s Day art
show in Houston, a show sponsor asked her
to drape a cloth over her sculptures.
Sister Holden declined to say who con
nected with the San Antonio religious
gallery has objected to the exhibit. She said
one man told her, “God has nothing to do
with sex.”
"It was upsetting to a couple of
people. It is explicit because it is
the beautification of sexuality."
— Sister Holden, ReBam director
“I said, ‘How can that be?”’ she recalled.
Sister Holden said she prayed about
whether to hold the monthlong show at the
gallery. She ultimately decided the exhibit
needed to be displayed because it depicts
sexuality in a spiritual way and calls atten
tion to AIDS.
Monsignor Lawrence Stuebben, with the
Archdiocese of San Antonio, said he was not
aware of the exhibit and could not comment.
ReBarn board member Trinidad Sanchez
said he and the rest of the board support the
show. Previous exhibits at the gallery —
like one featuring the art of jail prisoners
have been just as “strong,” he said.
Sister Holden said the Bible teaches
uality is a tremendous gift from God.”
“I am very much opposed to pornog
phy,” she said. “Yet, I do not believed
exhibit) is pornography. It’s a sacred rer. ;
tion of the beauty of sexuality.”
Sister Holden entered the convent
1953. She became a school teacher andp;
cipal, worked in juvenile treatment cent,
and later studied Hinduism. These days
addition to running ReBarn, she teacha
new version of tai chi.
Ms. Hill said she is not part of an on
nized religion, but she communicates s
her “spirit.”
She has shown her work with ot!
artists in Houston and New York. Th
Hill’s First solo show, and it is the debi
her “Inner AIDS” portraits.
Ms. Hill began the 11 AIDS works inj
uary of this year.
She interviewed people with AIDS, vie
taped the sessions and then tried to capti
their struggles on canvas.
One portrait depicts a man burning o:
crucifix: another shows a woman with
children next to a brick wall with syrinr
overhead; yet another is of a man sitti
amid total darkness.
“There’s a fine line between compass:
and pity,” the artist said. “This is not
being negative. It’s about a sadness.”
Compaq introduces new ProLiant line
HOUSTON (AP) — Compaq Computer
Corp., seeking a bigger piece of the corpo
rate computing pie, today introduces a new
line powered by up to four 100-megahertz
Pentium processors.
The new members of its ProLiant family
of servers also include the first fruits of
Compaq’s alliance with Oracle, a database
software company.
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large amounts of information, said Mary
McDowell, Compaq’s director of systems
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puter would be, say, a company Uiat doe*
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The new machines will run Intel’s top-of-
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The faster chips will not be available until
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The servers also feature an optional de
vice Compaq calls the “transaction blaster,”
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Estimated prices on the machines star
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puters’ y ealth.
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