CALL FOR ARTISTS

CALL FOR ARTISTS

2020 has been a very complex year. Art has not been exempt and artists have left testimony of it. But it is time to look to the future. The ArteMorfosis platform wants to approach the expectations of young visual artists, residing in Cuba, for the new year that is beginning soon.  Send us a short video answering this question:  WHAT PURPOSES DO YOU HAVE WITH YOUR WORK FOR THE NEW YEAR?  Also send us up to three recent two-dimensional works.  The ArteMorfosis team will select up to 15 works for a group show to be held…Read more …
POST-IT, A Contest for Young Artists

POST-IT, A Contest for Young Artists

- By Sandra García Herrera - Visit the Virtual Reality Exhibition of the current issue: POST-IT 7 Among the young Cuban artists of the last decade there is a name that continues to be mentioned: Post-it. Sometimes to approve, others to question, but the truth is that this visual arts contest has achieved a space in the historiography of Cuban art. It began in 2013 at the initiative of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets, a Cuban company dedicated to the promotion of art and crafts in Cuba, and one of the merits…Read more …
Alicia Leal

Alicia Leal

Catharsis and Authenticity –VIRGINIA ALBERDI –Art Critic A young woman flies along with a rooster whose wings have the colors of fire and the sky. One ignores where it comes from or heads to. The retina only fixes one and the other on the front plane, with a background of very light trees and waves (are they waves or bubbles?) that hardly support the painting’s main characters. Another young woman hides her head in her thorax, accompanied by doves and illuminated by a sun of honey-colored rays, leaving a rain of fine spores…Read more …
Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén (Cienfuegos, *1987) graduated in Plastic Arts from the Provincial School of Art Instructors “Octavio García”, of Cienfuegos, in 2006. In 2014 she graduated in Social Communication. In the University "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez" of that city. She has made two personal exhibitions in her hometown and has participated in more than a dozen collective shows in Cuba and Venezuela. Her works are part of private collections in Cuba and the United States. There is in many of Yailén Sellén's engravings an almost childish candor, which evokes the illustrations of children's storybooks. Some,…Read more …
ArteMorfosis Transforming

ArteMorfosis Transforming

- Reopening - Thursday, October 3, 2019, 6..8 pm - Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zürich - We are moving and expanding our gallery into an art platform for Cuban art. From October onwards you will find us at Rämistrasse 33, where we will be welcoming you to our showroom with works by Manuel Mendive, Juan Roberto Diago, Choco and Adislen Reyes.. 'The only constant in the universe is change', this millennium-old wisdom of Heraclitus has been repeatedly confirmed and today seems particularly true for the art market. We are advancing a house number in…Read more …
New Location – New Concept

New Location – New Concept

Save The Date: October 3rd, 6 pm 4 years at Rämistrasse ArteMorfosis is opening a new Location in October, 2019. After over four years at Rämistrasse 31 - where we have mainly shown solo- and curator- exhibitions - we are switching up gears and intensifying ArteMorfosis' presence online and in different digital distribution channels. With that, the requirements for our exhibition space has changed. From October onwards we will be welcoming you in our new show rooms where we have space to sit and discuss and view Cuban art in a personal setting…Read more …