PRISMA 7 – Jury’s Verdict

PRISMA 7 – Jury’s Verdict

Acta del jurado en español CALL FOR ARTISTS Photography can be much more than just documentation. This has always been known by numerous artists who dedicated themselves to a practice that for a long time was approached with prejudice, underestimation, or condescension. But today, photography (specifically photography understood as a proposal with undeniable aesthetic and conceptual values) is considered one of the pillars of visual arts. And it is one of the manifestations that most clearly builds bridges with the still insufficiently explored potential of new technologies. In our call for entries to…Read more …
PRISMA 7 – Acta del Jurada

PRISMA 7 – Acta del Jurada

Jury Verdict in English CONVOCATORIA La fotografía puede ser mucho más que documento. Eso lo supieron desde siempre numerosos artistas que se consagraron a un ejercicio que por mucho tiempo fue asumido desde el prejuicio, la subestimación o la condescendencia. Pero hoy por hoy la fotografía (cierta fotografía, entendida como propuesta con indiscutibles valores estéticos y conceptuales) está considerada como uno de los pilares de las artes visuales. Y es una de las manifestaciones que tienden puentes más evidentes con las potencialidades todavía insuficientemente exploradas de las nuevas tecnologías. En nuestra convocatoria a…Read more …
New Year Resolutions

New Year Resolutions

ArteMorfosis has aksed Cuban artists to make a short video of their New Year Resolutions as artists. The selected videos have been published on our facebook page and a selection of entered works have been chosen for an exhibit in the Showroom in Zürich. The date will be announced when the Covid-Situation allow for the exhibit. Commentaries on PRISMA - New Year Resolutions by:- Virginia Alberdi- Yuris Nórido All pubished videos can be viewed on our facebook page, here is a short selection of the videos received: https://youtu.be/tTT3C_TNVHE The Island of my Dreams…Read more …
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 …
Onay Rosquet – ATTACHMENTS

Onay Rosquet – ATTACHMENTS

Exhibition: January 11 through March 16, 2019 Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm Onay Rosquet (Havanna, *1987) takes inventory of our lives. He demonstrates: We can not give up our "attachments", cannot live on bread alone. As insignificant as every object, every meaning appears, in their totality they show our life. The exhibition ATTACHMENTS is his second solo exhibition in Zurich. The latest work presented is a continuation of his series of collection of objects shown in 2017. His seemingly random - yet carefully orchestrated - compilation of papers…Read more …

SAVE THE DATE

Vernissage - November 1, 2018, 6 pm Exhibition - November 2 through December 15, 2018 The art historian and curator Rosemary Rodríguez (* Havanna, 1984) shows in the exhibition EVERYDAY UNIVERSEwith works of Hektor Frank (* Havana, 1961) and Abel López (* Havanna, 1985), how scarcity gives rise to artistic impulses. In Cuba, in the early 1990s, when the former Soviet Union ceased to exist and the gross national product of Cuba collapsed by more than 30%. Practically over nicht everything became scarce, including canvas, paper or paint – but not creativity. The…Read more …