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Duvier del Dago – Interview by Virginia Alberdi

Duvier del Dago – Interview by Virginia Alberdi

In the wide-ranging interview, renowned Cuban visual artist Duvier del Dago discusses his unique and intellectual artistry, the inspirations from his childhood and early education, and his experiences in the prominent Cuban art collective, Galería DUPP. He emphasizes the integration of historical events and collective memory in his work, indicating how these elements have come to shape his creative vision. Dago's recent art exhibition in Zurich centers on the ethical implications of drone technology on society, embodying his ongoing fascination with the interplay between technology and nature. The show reflects Dago's belief that…Read more …

Surrealism in Cuba?

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - Alejo Carpentier, a Cuban writer of universal hierarchy, was a witness in Paris to the appearance of the surrealism in the European culture of the period between the World Wars. He even wrote articles for the magazine Revolution Surrealiste at the request of André Breton. Being pursued by the tyranny of Gerardo Machado that at the end of the twenties of the last century kept Cuba under his rule, the writer moved to Europe. The French poet Roberto Desnos, affiliated to surrealism, facilitated for Carpentier to move to…Read more …

Naive, candid people?… Cubans!

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - 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. However, 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…Read more …

From Cubanacan to the roads of the world: Tomás, Brey and Bedia

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - In 1981 an exhibition held at the International Center of Art in Havana became a reference point in the evolution of visual language in Cuba. Entitled as Volume I, a group of painters1 gathered works of dissimilar aesthetics showing an apparently paradoxical attitude to appropriate the tendencies of the time in the legitimating art centers in Europe and the United States and from them to inquire on the identities of cultures of the so-called Third World. Ten years later, several of the internationally recognized painters of that…Read more …