José Manuel Mesías’s False Apocryphals
(…) There are many things I would like to say on the research and artistic activity of José Manuel Mesías, but I will try to avoid definitions and explanations on his complex creative system which, to...
View ArticleFlags and Flags
Based on a symbol dear to Cubans, the national flag, this end of spring or beginning of summer in Havana, the emblematic Pabellón Cuba opened an exhibition of 100 artists of different expressions and...
View ArticleManuel Carbonell [ 1918 – 2011]
Manuel Carbonell, was one of the last Cuban Master Sculptors of the older generation. His chronological and artistic trajectory in the art world brought him from his beginnings in Cuba as a classical...
View ArticleInternational prize is awarded to Jose Rosabal
The 57th edition of the International Bice Bugatti Segantini prize is awarded to Jose Rosabal We are pleased to announce that this year’s prestigious International Award Bice Bugatti – Segantini in its...
View ArticleWhere his look rests
Last May Servando Gallery in Havana opened a painting exhibition by artist Osvaldo González, with the title Autofagia (Autophagy). Composed by a set of eight works made in oil on canvas, with different...
View ArticleART OnCuba 12
Imagine. A work has been conceived for intimacy. The artist does not want anyone to see it. He does not want nobody to express an opinion or try to unravel it. Possibly he is not sure if it is his best...
View ArticleAnother Abstraction
The strong trend to abstraction in Cuba, and of painting as a notable expression of our visual arts, has in Alejandro García (Havana, 1974) one of its protagonists. Formed in the almost bicentenary San...
View ArticleYou never, Heraclitus, tath your River was invisible
Sandra Ramos is, together with Belkis Ayón, Abel Barroso and Ibrahim Miranda, among others, protagonist of the turn engraving experienced in the decade of the 1990s. It is a phenomenon known as...
View ArticleWaiting for lightness
From February 26 to March 26, the gallery Thomas Jaeckel of New York welcomed the solo show by José Ángel Vincench, The Weight of Words. The exhibition included paintings and sculptures of the...
View ArticleAimée García
The project Behind the Wall usually offers categorical works to that symbolic patrimony the Havana Biennial is. Fe (Faith), by Adonis Flores in 2012, and La dama de rojo (The Lady in Red), by Aimée...
View ArticleA puzzle for multiple paths
(…) The game, its rules, strategies, roles and the ludic element it implies have been present in the work of Reinier Nande since his graduation in the High Institute of Arts in 2005. In his thesis,...
View ArticleOsy Milian builds his own imaginary
(…) Osy Milian surprises me every day. Before beginning a new project, she studies and researches. Her concerns are others, her context has changed; her former cosmos, legitimated in a contemporary...
View ArticleThe surprising return of Nelson Villalobos
I always thought that an Open Studio was something for youngsters, for adolescents, an occasion for the recently initiated artists to show their new and egomaniac creations to the boys and girls of...
View ArticleCuban contemporary Art on the other side of the Atlantic
Cuba. Tatuare la storia has been proposed as the most extensive exhibition on contemporary Cuban art. Because of that peculiarity it is placed in the list of great group shows with a national topic...
View ArticleBetween portrait and self-portrait: Photography & Representation
From its first edition in 2006, PHOTOIMAGEN has become a platform for the promotion of photography—in and from the Dominican Republic—that contributes to the positioning of the country in the...
View ArticleLoneliness in White and Black
In a close date, after the first decade of the 21st century was surpassed, Daylene Rodríguez appears in the Cuban photographic panorama with a set of images in white and black which deal with the...
View ArticleUtopia is rather a matter of the future
October 13 (…) the symposium Nuevas Utopías: Arte, memoria y contextos (New Utopias: Art, memory and contexts) was inaugurated in Havana. With this event, the academic reflections of the xlix Congress...
View ArticleClaiming Carmen Herrera
After seven long decades of living in New York, Carmen Herrera Nieto (Havana 1915) is still one of the best-kept secrets in American art, as well as within the art scene in Cuba where she was born....
View ArticleItineraries of Cuban Art in the Fundación Botín
Art grants—especially those linked with visual arts—propitiate new opportunities to the artists as to mobility, financing, logistic…; they constitute recognition in the field of the art critics,...
View ArticleCuba Material
My generation, that which was born in the decade of the 1970s, knew a Havana that, before filling itself with ruins, had been full of pieces of junk. The relationship of the Cubans with the material...
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