Yearly Archives: 2016

LAST DAYS: CUBAN JOY OF LIFE

LAST DAYS: CUBAN JOY OF LIFE

Flora Fong, Ernesto García Peña and Gilberto Frómeta Duration: April 2 through April 30 - Wednesday to Saturday from 11a.m. to 5p.m. The gallery ArteMorfosis celebrated it’s opening year in 2015 with solo exhibitions of these artists because they embody the taste of the Cuban Society. Their work forms part of the collection of contemporary cuban art of the ‘Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana’, and is displayed in all art fairs in Cuba and – most importantly – their work hangs on the walls of many Cuban homes; hardly a household that does not…Read more …

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 …
CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH – March 4 through March 23

CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH – March 4 through March 23

ArteMorfosis sets the theme 'CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH' for it's first independent exhibition Vernissage:  March 3, 2016, 6 p.m. Musical Evening; March 10, 2016, 6 p.m. Finissage:    March 23, 2016, 6 p.m. Alex Morales Puig, Alexey Cubas, Carlos Piloto Canovas are Cuban artists who live and paint in Zürich. They are representatives of a large number of cuban trained artists living abroad and amongst which world wide known artists have emerged. ArteMorfosis is setting the theme for its first independently organized exhibition on 'CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH' thus giving it a…Read more …
The Dream of Cubanacán

The Dream of Cubanacán

  – By Virginia Alberdi Benítez – When the biographies of Cuban painters, sculptors and engravers with a greater presence in the international circuits of exhibition and commercialization of the visual arts for the past five decades are reviewed, it is common to find a mutual reference in its formative stages: they have studied at the National Art School (ENA) or the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Flora Fong, Ernesto Garcia Peña and Gilberto Frómeta, who displayed their works in solo-exhibitions at ArteMorfosis during 2015 and currently are presented side by side in…Read more …