Monthly Archives: February 2021

Notes on PRISMA – New Year’s Resolutions

Notes on PRISMA – New Year’s Resolutions

Commentary by ArteMorfosis, February 2021 Marco Arturo Herrera (1991. La Habana, Cuba) - Pa’ la caliente | For the Heat 2020, Mixed on canvas, 170 x 140 cm There is in this selection of works an unresolved tension between the artists' manifest desire and artistic implementation. Times of crisis, it is known, can stimulate a formal and conceptual renewal of artistic propositions, but it can also numb impulses. In times of economic uncertainty, the self-preservation instinct has triumphed. It does not seem that these creators intend to revolutionize their ways of expression, to…Read more …
Art In Pandemic Times

Art In Pandemic Times

Commentary to PRISMA - New Years Resolutions by Virigina Alberdi Leo de la O (1986. Bayamo, Cuba) - Ruinas Circulares | Circular RuinsFrom the Series Inhabited Absence, 2020, Mixed on paper and canvas, 123 x 200 cm The pandemic  No one imagined the devastating effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. No country in the world has been spared. In addition to the millions of infections and the consequent lethality the economy is in crisis and the social fabric is being ruptured. Culture has not been exempted; museums and galleries are closed, and art…Read more …