From spell, seduction and utopia, a flower sprouts, a hummingbird hops, and a color emerges. Moreover, it is then when those twinned elements, in perpetual alliance with tenderness and the ingenuity of such a genie, manage to bring the Pedro … Continue reading →

The enormous need for intellectual expression, nuanced by the freshness of a smile, serves as guiding strokes in Tonel’s drawings, whose real name is Antonio Eligio Fernández. Hence, the conceptual framework, the art of lines and a full humor in … Continue reading →

The usual dynamic of transitory exhibitions in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts seems to have been devoted to marbles since last November, as a material historically tethered to the artistic arena. On the Firth … Continue reading →

The value of the immovable, of what endures and remains in the artist’s creative environment, often goes unnoticed before the critics’ eyes, those of the public and the entire Art Institution. However, like a cabinet of Renaissance curiosities, these studios … Continue reading →

Nearing its third anniversary of permanence on the grounds of Havana’s Chinatown, the current Arte Continua center is presenting the collective exhibition How Is the Water? since September 22nd. The display includes Cuban artists Elizabet Cerviño, José Yaque, Yornel Martínez, … Continue reading →

A rendezvous with time, from the fleeting permanence of a photographic image, is the latest attraction at the National Museum of Fine Arts since September 21st. Labelled as La imagen sin límites. Exposición antológica de fotografía cubana (An unbound image. … Continue reading →

When the Cuban poster comes to my mind, a set of socio-political circumstances brings up continuous historiographical approaches, specifically the Cuban post-revolutionary graphics as a propagandistic support, and its strict documentary value and ideological training. This very first moment, in … Continue reading →

                                                                                                                                       …the reading of a photograph is always historical. It depends on the reader’s knowledge, just as if this were a matter of a real language, intelligible only if one has learned its signs. Roland Barthes The magnitude and … Continue reading →

…the immeasurable sadness of forever unreconciled contradiction… Stanislaw Witkiewicz   There is no longer any talk about landscape in contemporary Cuban art, nor does it abound. For the strictly (neo) conceptual artist that overflows these days, there is no space … Continue reading →

Paintings have a soul of their own that comes from the soul of the painter. Vincent van Gogh   For those who truly love and admire the work of the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, the film Loving Vincent will … Continue reading →