CUBA – USA: autopista en las artes visuales

CUBA – USA: autopista en las artes visuales

Por Virginia Alberdi Benítez La presencia de las artes plásticas cubanas en Estados Unidos en el último medio siglo puede compararse con el tránsito por una autopista, a veces interrumpida por grandes obstáculos, pero nunca cerrada al paso de los vehículos. Indudablemente la nueva etapa de las relaciones entre ambos países, abierta el 17 de diciembre de 2014 con el anuncio del restablecimiento de vínculos diplomáticos y afianzada con la reapertura de embajadas en Washington el 20 de julio de 2015 y La Habana el 14 de agosto de este mismo año, debe…Read more …
Ernesto García Peña – Island Lyrics

Ernesto García Peña – Island Lyrics

The Poetry of Dreams DOLORES DENARO - Art Historian and Curator - Ernesto García Peña (Matanzas, Cuba, 1949) belongs to the first post-revolutionary generation of Cuban artists. The long list of his exhibitions reflects the fact that he is recognized in Cuba as one of the best known and respected artists of his country. Upon completing his studies at the Academy in Havana, he remained as a professor and for many years influenced the generations that followed. The motifs of his paintings – as evidenced by the title of the exhibition and of the present…Read more …
Ernesto García Peña – Island Lyrics

Ernesto García Peña – Island Lyrics

Ernesto Garcia Peña (* 1949, Matanzas, Cuba) is one of the first post-revolutionary generation artists of Cuba, and in Cuba a well established painter and draftsman which shows in his long list of his exhibitions. Himself trained at the Art Academy in Havana, he taught there for many years and influenced the following generations. The exhibition displays a selection of works by the artist painted in the period from 2008 to 2015.Read more …
Ernesto García Peña

Ernesto García Peña

A Vibrant Style of Dazzling Painting Motifs - ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ SEOANE - Art Specialist - Covering a creative period of approximately seven years of his powerful painting production, Ernesto García Peña now presents, in Zurich, a well-conceived selection of his artistic talent from his recent work to the present, in which voluptuous body forms are connected in a vibrant, unquestionably erotic style bursting with love. His style extends to zones of esthetic interest never before explored, such as the animal element of the horses in Poderosos (Powerful) and in the bullfighting magnificently portrayed in…Read more …
Flora Fong Exhibition Extended Until June 26

Flora Fong Exhibition Extended Until June 26

We are happy to announce that Flora Fong's solo exhibition 'Art: Elixir of Life' has been extended until June 26, to allow for all Art | Basel 2015 visitors to attend Flora's first exhibition in Switzerland at your leisure without time conflicts .Flora Fong is one of the best-known Cuban female artists and one of the first women who finished art studies in post-revolutionary Cuba and developed a professional career as an artist. Active in art since 1970, she assumed a forerunner role as a woman on the Cuban art scene. All this happened at the time Cuba became…Read more …