Yearly Archives: 2016

Save the Date: Pedro Pablo Oliva

Save the Date: Pedro Pablo Oliva

Vernissage: August 25, 2016, 6 p.m. Exhibition: August 26 through September 17, 2016 Pedro Pablo Oliva (Pinar del Río, *1949) counts as one of the most remarkable living painters of the Cuban art scene. For his lifetime achievement he was awarded the Cuban National Prize for Visual Arts in 2006. Over 4 decades of an unbounded fantasy and relentless observations led to a lifetime oeuvre of technical excellence, visual fantasy, psychological acuteness and conceptional coherence. At the exhibition FACES OF AN ISLAND ArteMorfosis displays bronze sculptures and paintings from 2013 to 2015, most of…Read more …
Festival Caliente! Visiting ArteMorfosis

Festival Caliente! Visiting ArteMorfosis

José Fuster (*1946) has been labled "Gaudi of Havana" by The Guardian, NZZ-Feuilleton, TripAdvisor and others. He is known in Cuba for his initiative to convert his neighborhood in Jaimanitas, a suburb of Havana, into a ceramic dream world. Much hast been written about Fuster online at sites like lahabana.com and artsobserver.com or in tourist guides to Cuba. ArteMorfosis and Festival Caliente! are presenting Fuster in Zürich in the Week of the 'Züri Fäscht'. He will be painting live on the Caliente! stage during performances of the music groups and ArteMorfosis is displaying a…Read more …

Naive, candid people?… Cubans!

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - The presence of Alicia Leal´s work in the Artemorfosis gallery, in Zurich, and her proximity to a certain poetics of the popular art in Cuba, encourages us to offer a panoramic on the expressions of a visual culture rooted in the Antillean Island. However, before that, we need to offer two explanations. One explanation is about the categories usually used to classify the work of the creators out of the academy. The other explanation points to the necessary distinction among the results of who paints and draws in…Read more …
ArteMorfosis Celebrating first Anniversary

ArteMorfosis Celebrating first Anniversary

On April 16, 2015 ArteMorfosis opened its doors to the public for the first time at Weinbergstrasse 15 with Flora Fong's solo exhibition 'ART: ELIXIR OF LIFE'. In August Ernesto García Peña's solo exhibition 'ISLAND LYRICS' was the second and last exhibition to take place at that venue. By good chance we discovered a vacant store predestined to become our next gallery close to the Kunsthaus of Zürich, where several galleries are located - hence Gilberto Frometa's solo exhibition 'TROPICAL LIGHT' was opened at our new location at Rämistrasse 31. Our first year…Read more …
ALICIA LEAL – SIGNS OF MYSTERY AND LIFE

ALICIA LEAL – SIGNS OF MYSTERY AND LIFE

ArteMorfosis celebrates it's first anniversary with Alicia Leal and her exhibition 'SIGNS OF MYSTERY AND LIFE' Vernissage:  May 12, 2016, 6 p.m. Duration: May 13 through June 17, 2016 ArteMorfosis is opening it's second season with yet another distinguished Cuban female Artist. ALICIA LEAL (*1957) is an artist, who's work oscillates between dream and reality. With  carefree Caribbean color intensities she leans her narrative, surreal paintings towards Cuban folk art. Her subjects are fables, mysteries, visions, myths and life itself. To the occasion of it's first anniversary ArteMorfosis marks the new season with an update of…Read more …