Beautiful Absences
Beautiful Absences is an exhibition that speaks of those imperfections that hide behind appearances, and make us unquestionably better human beings. It is a collection of oil paintings, mostly large...
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The book approaches a very complex and interesting cultural horizon, revisited by diverse specialists from multiple looks, who have suggested new contributions to the knowledge of the period in...
View ArticleAisar Jalil in the Midst of the Storm
(…) Distant from the family and cultural Arab legacy accompanying him in his childhood—whose aesthetic coordinates, as many of us know, cross the non-figuration, a forceful calligraphy and dissimilar...
View ArticleOn Artists, Honeys and Countries
Agave and sugar cane (caña de azúcar) are plants, the first one native of Mexico and the second the so much well-worn heroine in Cuban history. If they have something in common, it lies in that sweet...
View ArticleVideo as Immediacy of Posterity
He graduated in 1997 from the San Alejandro National Fine Arts Academy and, since 2005, lives in Berlin. In spite of being given recognition with a work made in Havana, he is barely known there. His...
View ArticleThe Zoo of Art
WANTED: 4.5 METER TIGER SHARK was the announcement Damien Hirst applied for in the post offices of the Australian coast, after noticing that his work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of...
View ArticleVoyages of the Secret Noise
The mind is a muscle Yvonne Rainer (…) Against tropical messianism, Glenda León and Diana Fonseca reject religious transgressions (Belkis Ayón) or public defiance with media impact (Tania Bruguera)....
View ArticleImport/Export: Art and Exchange in Portland, OR
What does it mean to have an exchange? Universities in the U.S. define exchange through their study abroad programs: offering students a chance to engage with other cultures and professors to present...
View ArticleART to Change The World
A purpose of restoration of relations between Cuba and the United States, the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has written to the presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama. His letter is a call to...
View ArticleThe First International Design Biennial of Havana
Between May, 14th and May, 20th it will take place in Cuba the First International Design Biennial of Havana. The island, so fashionable these days in the Caribbean, aims to become the main center of...
View ArticleThe Veiled Experience
MS17 Art Project, New London’s youngest and most innovative gallery with three exhibition spaces, including a temporary public art space opened an exhibit with an eclectic mix of installations and...
View ArticleArt OnCuba in Art Basel, Switzerland
Next month of June, from the 16th to the 19th, Art OnCuba magazine will for the first time take part in the European edition of Art Basel fair, after two consecutive years of forming part of the sector...
View ArticleCuban designers talk about Design Biennial
Havana holds its First International Design Biennial from May 14 to 20 of the present year of 2016. With regard to this event which has generated many expectations in the artistic circuit of the...
View ArticleBase/Superstructure and Hermetic Drift
Base/Superstructure should have been made in the National Museum of Fine Arts. It was meant to be the solo show this institution sponsors because of the granting of the National Visual Arts Award...
View ArticleThe Art of reencounter
(…) CIFO Talks / Volumen Uno and Shifting Perceptions Transnational Movements between Miami and Havana (in the Pérez Art Museum Miami, PAMM) were events well constructed by today protagonists and...
View ArticleMaking of or trying to make Requer readable
SYNOPSIS: Renier Quer—better known as Requer—spent a large part of his time in the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy with a folder under his arm copying from nature. An admirer of Ilya Repin, Käte...
View ArticleDisloyalties with drawing
(…) Line Up has been a pretentious exhibition. Up to a certain point. At least in its conception. A proposal with a double standard: making us think and moving wills brooding over day by day, with...
View ArticleAn artist’s life is the Art…
(…) Ana Albertina is one of those indispensable artists of the second half of the 1980s who has also maintained a constant creative process since she left Cuba in the early 1990s. Together with her...
View ArticleOn the Work of Michel Pérez Pollo
(…) Someone commented on a given occasion that great artists pursue an obsession. In his case it becomes increasingly conscious. It reveals through a symbolic universe of its own that distinguishes...
View ArticleBattalion heading nowhere
Alejandro Gómez Cangas (Villa Clara, 1986) likes to set abstract concepts on his canvases. He knows that abstract and figurative, hyper-reality and fiction or multitude and individual, are diffuse...
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