Photography defines a true epistemic category, irreducible and singular, a new form, not only of representation but more fundamentally, of thought, that introduces us to a new relationship with signs, with time, with space, with the real, with the subject, … Continue reading →

An introduction… The goldsmith and sculptor Jorge Gil (Havana, 1961) is a unique artist within the Cuban context. The audacity and innovation he preaches make his creations unique in design and elaboration. Without precursors in the context of the Island, … Continue reading →

More than thirty years after his first personal exhibition, José Manuel Fors (Havana, 1956) breaks into the Cuban art scene again, this time, as 2016 National Plastic Arts Award’s winner. The exhibition will take place this December 22 in the … Continue reading →

¡Qué interesante y triste la historia de los pueblos y la conciencia y valores de los hombres que los habitan!1 Yo Publio. Raúl Martínez There is no doubt that Raúl Martínez is a chronicler, yes. But those appreciations focused on … Continue reading →

In the complex process of transformation from academic to avant-garde in the case of national art, the precursor quality of drawing and graphics is well managed by the historiography of Cuban art. However, for those of us who have been … Continue reading →

Servando Cabrera Moreno is without a doubt, one of the classics of modern Cuban painting. His immense work, full of variations and motifs, is representative of one of the most controversial episodes in Western history: the Cuban Revolution and the … Continue reading →

(…) billions of tons of material are being used to make cars, pottery, books, textiles, chemicals –but how many kilos of sculpture are made today? The non-utilitarian use of material is important. Utility means limitation in the forms produced. Expedient … Continue reading →

“Once Upon a Time,” the famous starting line of every fable and fairy tale: that is the title of Jorge Rodríguez Diez’s personal exhibition at Casa 8 Gallery, in Vedado. Since R10 –the name he uses in the world of … Continue reading →

A gathering of sculptures makes up the most recent personal exhibition of the Cuban artist Pedro Pablo Oliva. A look is enough to recognize the fantastic appearance offered by the numerous artworks cast in bronze. This is a harmonically structured … Continue reading →

A well-deserved homage to the oeuvre of a tireless artist comes with the opening of En cuerpo y alma: Bronces de Pedro Pablo Oliva (Wholeheartedly: Bronzes by Pedro Pablo Oliva), an exhibition that will stay at Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art … Continue reading →