The story is just a narration. Its effectiveness depends on the implied veracity in the story, on the empathy involved in the development of the facts and the emotionality of the argument. The story is a narration that catches human … Continue reading
How do You Want your Call to Be Supported?
From the objects that make up the contemporary world, money has a hierarchical connotation. Its existence forges in man a terrible anxiety, to such extent that it breaks will. Its depersonalized entity becomes omnipotent and generates more than a myth … Continue reading
Will Words Continue to Exist in Iván Capote’s Visual Creation?
With VERBUM (I), Iván Capote deploys his visual games with words once more in Habana Gallery. The oldest Capote brother is one of the Cuban artists who has been more constant in the use of verbal language as a starting … Continue reading
Hander Lara Says: Don’t Play with History / Coming Soon at the Gallery Rubén Martínez Villena
Next Friday, November 20th, at 6.00 pm, the exhibition Don’t Play with History will be opened at the Gallery Rubén Martínez Villena. There, the Cuban visual arts’ audience will have the chance to enjoy the most recent work by the … Continue reading
Moments of the Human Condition at the Fine Arts Museum
American photographer Peter Turnley’s solo exhibition at the National Fine Arts Museum can be defined as a real cultural event. The exhibition has been promoted as the first occasion in which a lens artist from the United States presents a … Continue reading
Vincench – Form, Concept, and Method
Activismo (nombre masculino): Actitud o comportamiento de las personas que participan en movimientos, especialmente de tipo político o social. Arts, in any of their manifestations, generate an overwhelming feeling, a passion, both for the executor and for the public. In … Continue reading
Invited by the National Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandre Arrechea is Making Headlines with his Latest Exhibit
Alexandre Arrechea is a Cuban artist with a successful international career. Among his latest projects, the collection of public sculptures, placed in Park Avenue, New York City, has been highly advertised. El mapa del silencio is a solo exhibit he … Continue reading
A Retrospective Exhibition of One of the Greatest Living Legends of the Cuban art: Gustavo Pérez Monzón in the National Museum of Fine Arts
Gustavo Pérez Monzón is a name surrounded by mythological resonances. He was one of the most energetic artists in the 1980s. He quickly developed a very peculiar visual and conceptual poetics. He was the protagonist of the most important expositions … Continue reading
Tomás Sánchez’s Landscape Virtuosity in the National Museum of Fine Arts
The Cuban Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts participated in the last Havana Biennial with a series of exhibits. They are still open to the public and will continue to be the rest of the summer break. … Continue reading
After 30 Years of its Foundation, Havana Biennial has Been Willing to Reinvent itself with a Risky and Ambitious Curatorial Proposal
Today, on Monday, June 22nd the 12th Havana Biennial has symbolically come to an end. I use the word symbolically because… although many exhibits have already been dismounted and others are ready to, this edition of Havana mega-gathering will continue … Continue reading