Consuelo Castañeda
(…) An active protagonist of the “Cuban Renaissance”, as Luis Camnitzer baptized this movement, was artist Consuelo Castañeda who, as many of her contemporaries, contributed to the art of those years...
View ArticleRegarding the Cuban Flag
(…) Because of diverse reasons, some of the problems motivating that article came to my mind some days ago, with regard to the reposition in Havana of an exhibition whose standpoint was the Cuban flag,...
View ArticleLooking Aside
Undjetzt (¿Y ahora qué? –And Now What?) was not only one of the most attractive and original exhibitions of Photo España 2016 in Madrid, but also had the virtue to reveal some essential keys of the...
View ArticlePerformance by Cuban artist Carlos Martiel
This Thursday, is day #2 at Miami Art Week and there are some amazing events going on. Art OnCuba begin the day at 9 am at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), where you will get to see their...
View ArticleThe History of a Silence
(…) In 1952, when an Association of Critics and Researchers of Visual Arts was created, there was a well-defined field of art, an appreciable group of massive and specialized editions in which critique...
View ArticleArt further from tourism
Trinidad, recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage because of being one of the important colonial enclaves of Cuba and the world (…), today experiences an outstanding development in the field of visual...
View ArticleWe all did the harvest
To Machete (as his friends used to call Rigoberto) and Leovigildo In memoriam Photo reports on Cuban sugar cane harvests were frequent in Cuban documentary photography in the 20th century and, with...
View ArticleThe Market of Contemporary Art
(…) The 2016 winter auctions concluded a great year for Cuban art in the international market. Those fulfilled in New York on November 22 (Phillips) and on November 22 and 23 (Sotheby’s and Christie’s)...
View ArticleJust stop and look…
May painting represent ideas, states of mind or actions as meditation, introspection, inner contemplation, the unblocking of the mind towards an unconscious flow of thought, the abstraction or evasion...
View ArticleThe exercise of the formal in a Caja China
As explained in literature, Chinese box (literal translation of Caja China) is a narrative technique in which different stories are involved, one inside another, increasingly shorter until closing, or...
View ArticleDistended city
I discovered Eugenio Trías only three years ago.[1] Since then, my perception of the city has been permanently signed by the amplitude of his philosophical project. Because behind the rhizomatic...
View ArticleWater is all around
The objective of the artist as a powerful and prominent being in the social change or improvement has been, since ages questioned and relativized. Nevertheless, the contemporary author has not stop...
View ArticleAbout Statement
When you think on Cuban contemporary art a priori it is difficult to diagram a common topic line. Discourse proposals are as wide as the existing spaces for their spreading; it is a feature of post...
View ArticleFeel the world through my body
Since the epic fable of Aesop, The hare and the turtle, it was clear to us that speed is subjective in terms of competition. Nevertheless the world goes round and gets transformed so fast that in...
View ArticleSusana Pilar Delahante at the Venice Biennale 2017
ICI Venice – Istituto Culturale Internazionale in collaboration with Galleria Continua present, concurrently with the International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale 2017, a personal exhibition by the...
View ArticleCuban artists: The Prodigious Decade
Aluna Art Foundation is pleased to announce its latest exhibit: Cuban Artists: The Prodigious Decade [1]. This curated project that takes place at the Sagamore Hotel shows-case a significant selection...
View ArticleArtist trouvé*
(…) It is not the time scheduled for the opening yet. However, when the elevator door opens, I find there are already plenty of people in the salon. My strategy of getting there early to see the...
View ArticleFabelo’s world*
(…) Fabelo’s “beautiful painting” seems to find its exterior nourishment in the Renaissance and the Baroque preciosity. On the other side, the sneaky intention to search, the exploration for narrative...
View ArticleMOEBIUS SALIARA
Art works as a Moebius ring, in a de-territorialized manner, virtual, with fluctuations between public and private spaces, proper and common ones, subjective and objective, as spiral band that boosts...
View ArticleArt OnCuba 15
Several events of notable interest for Cuban artists and, in general, for the island’s art have coincided in recent months. The first, the Venice Biennial, in which Cuba’s presence is almost a must,...
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