Mar 3
March 14 – May 8, 2015
Opening March 13
Kadel Willborn
Birkenstrasse 3
40233 Düsseldorf
Laura Lamiel, Björn Braun, Jürgen Drescher, Diango Hernández, Vajiko Chachkhiani
“Opaque Waters is the title of an installation mainly composed by two objects, both of a familiar nature to us all. At your left hand -if you are standing in front of the gallery wall in which they hang from- there is a stretched fragment of a 1940’s table cloth that has been mounted on a heavy plexiglass, with same measurements, both the table cloth and the plexiglass, give you the impression that ‘something’ is hidden between them. The other object is a Hi-Fi sound amp that hangs from the wall as a picture frame does. In this case the amp is disconnected from the power so it is in silence, its only function is to be the support of a printed image, a digitally generated map of all Atlantic retired hurricanes.” Diango Hernández
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Nov 15
published in Exhibits, Exhibits - Miami
tags : 10 pintores concretos, 80's generation, art, ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries, Carlos García, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Hugo Consuegra, Jose Angel Vincench, José Rosabal, Lolo Soldevilla, Los Once, Luis Enrique López, Miami, Pedro de Oraá, Raul Martinez, Sandú Darié
Opening on November 1st from 6-10pm
ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries
169 Madeira Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
“The Silent Shout” is the first exhibition outside Cuba featuring these groups of artists from different generations, including three artists being shown in Greater Miami for the first time.
This exhibition provides an overview of these nine important abstract artists from Cuba, as well as a glimpse into that nation’s historically significant “10 Pintores Concretos” and “Los Once” groups.
One of the curators of Pinturas del Silencio—José Angel Vincench—is an artist whose work is included in The Silent Shout as well as being one of its three curators. Other artists whose paintings are included in The Silent Shout are Hugo Consuegra, Sandú Darié, Carlos García, Luis Enrique López, Raúl Martínez, Pedro de Oraá, José Rosabal, and Loló Soldevilla.
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Nov 10
published in Exhibits, Exhibits - Miami
tags : art, Art Basel, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Hybrid, Jorge Enrique, Miami, multimedia art, Waltman Ortega Fine Art Gallery
November 9 – December 10, 2013
Waltman Ortega’s White Room
2233 N.W. 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33127
Waltman Ortega Fine Art gallery presents “Hybrid”, a solo exhibition of recent works by Jorge Enrique (USA/b. Cuba).
Tearing down the veil of the urban culture is Jorge Enrique’s leitmotiv. The Cuban-American artist resembles the contrasted city which has been inspiring him for over a decade – Miami – a true gateway of the Americas. For him, it is all about capturing the urban tension and then rendering his own recomposed vision. Considering himself a multimedia artist, he often blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, print-making and photography.
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Nov 10
published in Articles, Books
tags : 80's generation, Academia San Alejandro, art, Carriage House Center for the Arts, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Cultural Center, Cuban Culture, El Mundo de los Vivos, Gabarron Foundation, Grupo Arte Calle, New York City, Ofill Echevarria, San Alejandro Art Academy, The Real World, Un-Gyve Limited
This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarria (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un-Gyve Limited. Debuting as a member of Grupo Arte Calle in 1988, a graduate of la Academia San Alejandro, Ofill Echevarria has since exhibited his work in galleries and museums internationally. He lives and works in New York City, the urban reality of which is vividly depicted in “El Mundo de los Vivos” book and touring exhibition.
Unveiled in Mexico City with the support of Galeria Alfredo Ginocchio and the exhibit “Momentum,” the work has now launched in the United States with the coinciding solo exhibition “The Real World,” new large scale oil paintings from Ofill and a selection of his moving pictures, at the Carriage House Center for the Arts, sponsored by the Cuban Cultural Center and the Gabarron Foundation, New York City.
The 125 page clothbound hardcover with text contributed by Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montiel and Alejandro Robles, translated by Marilu Menendez is now available for purchase online.
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Oct 26
published in Exhibits, Exhibits - New York City
tags : Alexis Mendoza, art, Boricua College, Boricua College Art Gallery, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Guillermo Lorenete, Identity and the Accumulation of Memory, Jesus Rivera, Juana Valdez, Manhattan, Margarita Fresco Crespo, Mario Petrirena, Nelson Alvarez, New York City, Raul Villareal, Renelio Marín, Tony Chirinos
December 4 – December 27, 2013
Group Show with the following artists participating:
Nelson Alvarez, Tony Chirino, Margarita Fresco Crespo, Guillermo Llorente, Renelio Marin, Alexis Mendoza, Mario Petrirena, Jesus Rivera, Juana Valdez, and Raul Villareal.
Opening Reception December 6th from 6-9pm
Boricua College Art Gallery
3755 Broadway (@156th St.)
New York, NY
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Oct 26
published in Articles
tags : art, Basel, Bienal of Graphic Arts, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Ljubljana, Maria Elena Gonzalez, New York City, Slovenia, Switzerland
The jury, whose members included Tev Logar (president), Chema de Francisco, Sally Tallant and Dusica Kirjakovic, awarded the Grand Prize of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts to Cuban artist María Elena González for her work The Tree Talk Series.
María Elena González (1957), born in Havana, Cuba, lives and works in New York and Basel, Switzerland. “Best known for sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally informed, one of González’s most recent series, Tree Talk, was inspired by her encounter with a fallen birch tree in the woods of the summer artist colony the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
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Oct 26
published in Articles, Exhibits
tags : art, Belfast, Belfast Festival, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Jorge Rodríguez Gerada, Northern Ireland, portrait, portraits, Rodriguez-Gerada
Belfast’s reputation for producing stuff that’s larger than life continues with a monumental artwork that comes a century after the sinking of the Titanic.
“Wish” is a portrait of a local 6-year-old girl that has been carved into an 11-acre field close to where the Harland and Wolff shipyard, birthplace of the massive doomed ship, once stood.
It’s the work of Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, who has been known for creating enormous portraits such as one of Barack Obama on a Barcelona beachfront.
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Oct 14
published in Articles, Exhibits, Exhibits - New York City
tags : art, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Ernesto Pujol, New York City, Performance art, performance artist, performng arts
Pujol was born in Cuba and raised there and in Puerto Rico. As a site-specific public performance artist, his work explores concepts of collective identity, spirituality, and the notion of the artist as a citizen and cultural worker. “I believe that everyone has the right to culture,” he has stated. “And I mean critical culture rather than entertainment. Critical culture is a human right.” His performance practice is based on walking—“durational group performances as public art,” as he states in his website, creating “psychic restorative portraits of peoples and places across the U.S.” Most recently, Pujol choreographed a work presented this past summer at the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, in collaboration with Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins and the Silsila Collective.
Time After Us was presented as part of “Crossing the Line,” an annual festival of interdisciplinary and performance art presented in New York by the French Institute Alliance Française. It took place in Saint Paul’s Chapel, one of the oldest churches in New York, which opened for Episcopal services in 1776.
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Oct 8
published in Exhibits, Exhibits - Miami
tags : art, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, FIU, Frost Art Museum, Humberto Castro, Miami
16 October – 16 February 2014
Opening Reception October 16th from 6-9pm
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU
10975 SW 17th St.
Miami, FL
Humberto Castro executes an artistic journey across the Antilles in an ever-transforming exhibition that conceptually circumnavigates the islands of the Caribbean. FIU’s Frost Art Museum commissioned the Cuban-born contemporary artist to create a new multimedia site-specific installation entitled Tracing Antilles. Curated by Ana Estrada, the exhibition is the result of an artistic investigation of the historical events that have shaped the region’s cultures through colonization and emigration.
Humberto Jesús Castro García (Havana, Cuba, 1957– ) is one of the most active members of the “Generation of the 1980s,” which transformed the aesthetic and conceptual art scene of Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts and at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana. In 1983 he founded the creative team “Hexagon” in which, alongside other artists, he mounted installations aimed at provoking public participation in the work. In 1999, he moved to the United States and currently lives and works in Miami.
Link:>>Exhibition catalogue
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