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Ethnic awareness in the Cuban art I (XIX Century to the first half of the XX Century)

- Virginia Alberdi Benítez -   An important area of the Cuban art reveals the ethnic awareness of the inhabitants of the Antillean Island. The encounter between Africa and Europe in the creation of the Nation determines that “condition of the soul” characterized by the Cuba anthropologist Fernando Ortiz as the element essential of the Cuban character. It is not about just an instrumental category. While in The United States and Brazil the Afro-Americans or Afro-Brazilian identities are profiled, according to the case, in Cuba almost nobody is defined as "Afro-Cuban", what doesn't…Read more …
Eduardo Roca «Choco» – EQUILIBRIO HUMANO

Eduardo Roca «Choco» – EQUILIBRIO HUMANO

  As the title 'EQUILIBRIO HUMANO' suggests, the works of the Afro-Cuban Artist Eduardo Roca «Choco» (*1949, Santiago de Cuba) are characterised by their search for equilibrium of man with himself, nature, his spirituality, his ancestry independent of ethnicity.  His work - whether painting, sculpture or print - is characterised by it corporeality which is formed by the motives as well as materiality. ArteMorfosis is the first Swiss gallery to display oil paintings, collagraphies and wood sculptures in Switzerland of the international renowned artist. Master of collagraphy like no other in Cuba, his solid…Read more …
Save the Date: Eduardo Roca Salazar «Choco»

Save the Date: Eduardo Roca Salazar «Choco»

Vernissage: November 3, 2016, 6 p.m. Exhibition: November 4 through December 3, 2016 As the title 'EQUILIBRIO HUMANO' suggests, the works of the Afro-Cuban Artist Eduardo Roca «Choco» (*1949, Santiago de Cuba) are characterised by their search for equilibrium of man with himself, nature, his spirituality, his ancestry independent of ethnicity. His work - whether painting, sculpture or print - is characterised by it corporeality which is formed by the motives as well as materiality. ArteMorfosis is the first Swiss gallery to display oil paintings, collagraphies and wood sculptures in Switzerland of the international renowned…Read more …
A VANGUARD BETWEEN “MULATAS” AND STAINED GLASSES

A VANGUARD BETWEEN “MULATAS” AND STAINED GLASSES

The first avant-garde in Cuban art of the 20th Century - Virginia Alberdi Benítez - Chronological time does not always conform to the real time. An English historian said the European twentieth century began with the bombing of Sarajevo and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall. The latter date also marked the end of the Cuban 20th Century- the Antillean nation, thereafter, has been and is a different one, even if it is also still the same- but the…Read more …