From Cubanacan to the roads of the world: Tomás, Brey and Bedia

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - In 1981 an exhibition held at the International Center of Art in Havana became a reference point in the evolution of visual language in Cuba. Entitled as Volume I, a group of painters1 gathered works of dissimilar aesthetics showing an apparently paradoxical attitude to appropriate the tendencies of the time in the legitimating art centers in Europe and the United States and from them to inquire on the identities of cultures of the so-called Third World. Ten years later, several of the internationally recognized painters of that…Read more …