Publications

WHERE IS THE STARTING POINT OF CUBAN ART?

WHERE IS THE STARTING POINT OF CUBAN ART?

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - 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, and it…Read more …
Wifredo Lam – Today

Wifredo Lam – Today

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - 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,…Read more …
Abstract and Different

Abstract and Different

By Virginia Alberdi Benítez; 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, one of the aesthetic tendencies from the artistic avant-garde of the XX Century…Read more …
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

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 …