The Morphologies of Power
“Power, instead of obstructing knowledge, produces it.” — Michel Foucault (…) Adriana Arronte has moved her view to the field of symbolic expression, demonstrating that the idea of power is a human...
View ArticleBetween Materiality and Metaphor
The recent exhibition of new works by Florencio Gelabert (b. Havana 1962), Journeys: Dialogues with Time, offers the viewer an opportunity to navigate among seemingly opposing realms which are...
View ArticleSegundo Always First
(…) Perhaps many of us remember Segundo as the neo-surrealist of the eighties in Cuba, who little after graduating in the High Institute of Arts was esteemed because of his contribution to the blooming...
View ArticleInterview with Carlos Garaicoa
(…) In your pieces, the city and its ruins are present, but also their history, at times from archives, other times invented. Do you think your work reinvents or rediscovers architecture? When I began...
View ArticleThe Princess and Her Garden
(…) Lisbeth Ledo García has proved she is a vital creator with her own poetics, which still operates with children iconography, although now confirmed as a consistent and deliberate discursive and...
View ArticleA Conversation with Holly Block
It was the year 1999 when I first met Holly Block. I had just started working at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, in Havana —a meeting point for an ever-growing group of Americans interested in the arts...
View ArticleColores cubanos… in NY
(…) Obviously, for the last fifty years, the representation of Cuban art in the United States has been negligible. While the artists of earlier generations, Wifredo Lam, for example, are well known,...
View ArticlePremio Art OnCuba
Fuego Enterprises y OnCuba convocan a la Primera Edición del Premio de Arte Cubano con el objetivo de evaluar y promocionar el arte cubano joven. El concurso está planteado para ofrecer premios en...
View ArticleThe new free airs of Havana
Wilfredo Prieto opened at the 12th Biennial of Havana the exhibition curated by him in the former bicycle factory, just a few hundred meters from the tunnel of Línea Street and the Iron Bridge . The...
View ArticleGustavo Pérez Monzón: Life’s days are numbered
Over the years you’ve been described as a myth: a figure who abandoned his artistic career in order to dedicate himself to the career of live, as some have put it. This artistic “dis-animation”, so to...
View ArticleThe Voyages of Enrique Martínez Celaya
Metaphors are the affirmation of poetry and function as the contentment of life. Many individuals use them as pillars of existence, like cyclical journeys through which they exercise lifepath...
View ArticleProphylactic life and collective amnesia
[…] Vida profiláctica (Prophylactic Life) is the title of the most recent solo exhibition by Hamlet Lavastida. Opened in the Dotfiftyone gallery in Wynwood Art District, Miami, the show is an...
View ArticleDouble play
Between September 12 and October 31, 2015, 24th street of Chelsea in New York received an exhibition in two parts by artist José Parlá entitled Surface Body/Action Space, the fi rst of them in the...
View ArticleThe image as epicenter
Adrián Fernández (Havana, 1984) is one of those artists with a restless intellect. For him, image is not only support, but gains life in each of his proposals and becomes the essence of his creative...
View ArticleArchitecture, Art & Promise
Two young women in muslin dresses sit in a relaxed yet formal pose, surrounded by aristocratic markers of 19th century Cuban life: rococo gilt tables, chandeliers, birds mounted inside shiny glass...
View ArticleART OnCuba 09
A painter moves away from his brushes for twenty years to then retake them with greater energy. A young artist moves between action and painting withthe subtlety of breeze. The island and its art...
View ArticleAn artist bathes in the Ganges
Elizabet Cerviño (1986), who knows how to paint properly, was five years away from traditional pigments and without touching a paintbrush. It was when she studied in the High Institute of Arts in...
View ArticleFrom the Path to Eden, Ariamna
I questioned the depth of the research made by Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández, as a preamble to the production of the works integrating their project Camino al Edén (The Path to Eden), for Zona...
View ArticleThe Illusory Fragility of the Sentimental Country
The recreation of the sand bodies in large scale by Liset Castillo marks the second time in my most recent novel and refers to the sign of insularity many of us carry as a second skin. The...
View ArticleContemporary rara avis
When only 25 years old, working and living between Havana and Barcelona, Rachel set out to cover several territories of painting with predominance, at the beginning, of figuration (enormous paintings...
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