Kunst in Kuba

Artikel, Medienversagen, usw. auf kubanischer Kunst

Naive, candid people?… Cubans!

- Von Virginia Alberdi Benitez - The presence of Alicia Leal´s work in the Artemorfosis gallery, in Zurich, and her proximity to a certain poetics of the popular art in Cuba, encourages us to offer a panoramic on the expressions of a visual culture rooted in the Antillean Island. Jedoch, before that, we need to offer two explanations. One explanation is about the categories usually used to classify the work of the creators out of the academy. The other explanation points to the necessary distinction among the results of who paints and draws in…Lesen Sie mehr …

Von Cubanacan auf die Straßen dieser Welt: Tomás, Brey und Bedia

- Von Virginia Alberdi Benitez - In 1981 Eine Ausstellung im Internationalen Kunstzentrum in Havanna wurde zu einem Bezugspunkt in der Entwicklung der Bildsprache in Kuba. Titel: Band I, Eine Gruppe von Malern1 sammelte Werke unterschiedlicher Ästhetik, die eine scheinbar paradoxe Haltung zeigten, um sich die Tendenzen der Zeit in den legitimierenden Kunstzentren in Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten anzueignen und von ihnen aus nach den Identitäten der Kulturen der sogenannten Dritten Welt zu fragen. Zehn Jahre später, einige der international anerkannten Maler davon…Lesen Sie mehr …
The Dream of Cubanacán

The Dream of Cubanacán

  – By Virginia Alberdi Benítez – When the biographies of Cuban painters, sculptors and engravers with a greater presence in the international circuits of exhibition and commercialization of the visual arts for the past five decades are reviewed, it is common to find a mutual reference in its formative stages: they have studied at the National Art School (Dieses hier) or the Higher Institute of Art (IST EIN). Flora Fong, Ernesto Garcia Peña and Gilberto Frómeta, who displayed their works in solo-exhibitions at ArteMorfosis during 2015 und werden derzeit nebeneinander in präsentiert…Lesen Sie mehr …
WHERE IS THE STARTING POINT OF CUBAN ART?

WHERE IS THE STARTING POINT OF CUBAN ART?

- Von Virginia Alberdi Benitez - The strength of the images of the Cuban contemporary artists and the interest they awaken among collectors, critics and European viewers, as evidenced by the experience of the Artemorfosis Gallery, in Zurich, have a backup history that dates back to the beginnings of the establishment of the nation in the Antillean island, when Cuba was a territory belonging to the Spanish colonial empire. Cuba is called the key for the New World, because of its strategic position at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, und es…Lesen Sie mehr …
Wifredo Lam – Heute

Wifredo Lam – Heute

- Von Virginia Alberdi Benitez - As time passes, Wifredo Lam confirms his status as one of the most secure values of the Cuban Visual Arts in the global context and remains an essential reference of the vanguards of the Twentieth century. A prevailing trend among art historians, that classifies artistic results in schools and aesthetic trends, often includes Lam within the Surrealist movement. But a close look at his work, taking into account its evolution and the internal dynamics of the images captured in many different formats, will show an irreducible originality,…Lesen Sie mehr …
Abstrakt und anders

Abstrakt und anders

Von Virginia Alberdi Benitez; Translation by Luz María Rodríguez Cabral - With the presence of the paintings by Gilberto Frómeta in the ArteMorfosis gallery, in Zürich, this November, the art lovers of Switzerland and other countries that visit this singular space for the promotion of the contemporary Cuban art have the opportunity of having access, not only to the creations by one of the most active and consistent painters inside and outside Cuba, but also to the impact of Abstraction, eine der ästhetischen Tendenzen der künstlerischen Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts…Lesen Sie mehr …