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Young people have an outstanding position in contemporary Cuban art; they are the vanguard in the different ways of expressing art and tend to participate in all sorts of trends. Onay Rosquet’s work – which initially focused on characters and later on objects carefully reproduced in his drawings and paintings – attracts attention in an extraordinary way. In his first series on objects they appeared lonely, abandoned, but loaded with nostalgia that revealed much about them. At present, the young painter, by portraying accumulations of objects, constructs stories by arranging the objects into…Read more …

Duvier del Dago employs architectural elements of an emblematic space of Havana and representations of national symbols of Cuba and displays them in the light of both history and society. The artist shows his creative skills in a finely achieved watercolour on cardboard to revisit history and find the traces of origin and identity, the leitmotiv of Duvier’s creativity. In this case, the symbols of the first Cuban Republic, some of them present still in our times, are articulated in a visual metaphor: the Capitol, a copy of the famous equally named construction…Read more …

Lancelot Alonso (*1986, Havana) graduated in 1997 from the José Antonio Díaz Peláez Experimental Center for Visual Arts, where he finished elementary school. He continued his studies at the FIT School of Design in New York in 2005 and at San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, where he graduated in 2008.Read more …

Carlos Quintana was born in 1966 in Havana. As a young painter and autodidact, he came into contact with contemporary Cuban artists and from then on took part in exhibitions. In 1993 he emigrated to Spain and stayed abroad for more than 10 years. He traveled widely and exhibited in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States, among others. During his travels and exhibitions, he consolidated his work, which became increasingly independent and finally earned him international recognition. Since 2006 he lives in Cuba again, but he travels all over the world.…Read more …

A self-taught artist, Heredia García has organised workshops for children and teenagers. He is a member of the Visual Artists Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC ).Read more …

Abel López Valdés studied in the Experimental School for Visual Arts “José Antonio Díaz Peláez” and continued his studies at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 2004. He is a member of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS). Abel worked as a designer for the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba from 2008 to 2010. He is also a video maker at REMACHE studio. He currently lives and works in Havana.Read more …