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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 …
Save the date: Li Domínguez Fong

Save the date: Li Domínguez Fong

Vernissage: January 12, 2017 - 6 p.m. “I am restless by nature. I have always responded promptly to the pressing need to create because new possibilities burn inside me that I must constantly express; to fill in the blank spaces of the canvas with these ‘worlds’ or living spaces I create. My work, eminently introspective, urges me to search inside and constantly create relations and affinities in that universe of new stories.” Li Dominguez Fong was born in Havana, Cuba in 1978, where he still lives and works. In 1989 he graduated from the Elementary School of Visual Arts…Read more …

Ethnic awareness in the Cuban art I (XIX Century to the first half of the XX Century)

- Virginia Alberdi Benítez -   An important area of the Cuban art reveals the ethnic awareness of the inhabitants of the Antillean Island. The encounter between Africa and Europe in the creation of the Nation determines that “condition of the soul” characterized by the Cuba anthropologist Fernando Ortiz as the element essential of the Cuban character. It is not about just an instrumental category. While in The United States and Brazil the Afro-Americans or Afro-Brazilian identities are profiled, according to the case, in Cuba almost nobody is defined as "Afro-Cuban", what doesn't…Read more …