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May 24
A painting by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby’s strongest Latin American evening art sale ever on Wednesday night.
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Apr 29
Wendy Navarro | Barcelona | 29-04-2012
Diario de Cuba
Tras varios años sin exponer, el pintor y diseñador gráfico muestra sus últimas pinturas.
La creación de imágenes, como la expresión poética, es uno de los medios al alcance del hombre para trasmitir y asimilar experiencias y sensaciones inexplicables, para explorar aquello que nos rodea y que inevitablemente forma parte de nosotros mismos. Referencia imprescindible en el panorama de las artes plásticas cubanas de las últimas cuatro décadas, la obra de Umberto Peña (La Habana, 1937) ha estado estrechamente ligada a las influencias y efectos del medio circundante, configurando una original indagación sobre la condición humana.
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Mar 12
Publicado el domingo,11 marzo 2012
ADRIANA HERRERA
ESPECIAL/ EL NUEVO HERALD
La exhibición Games in the Dark, de Gladys Triana, reúne en Hardcore Contemporary Art Space su más reciente video, In Solitude, y una selección de cuatro de las series fotográficas realizadas desde el 2008. A lo largo de su larga trayectoria, esta artista cubana (Camagüey, 1934) residente en Nueva York, ha renovado incesantemente su lenguaje hasta desembocar en la fotografía como medio de invención de un lenguaje para la trascendencia.
En su práctica, Triana transforma pequeños objetos cotidianos encontrados en irreconocibles formas escultóricas que acaban refiriendo a una dimensión ontológica, relacionada con el ser y con la noción del cambio. Construye situaciones fotográficas ambiguas y abstractas -pese a la concreción de los elementos usados- donde los juegos de la luz y las sombras protagonizan diversas puestas en escena que llevan al espectador a observar de otro modo la representación de eventos correlacionados con la dramática existencial.
Mar 6
by Felicia Feaster
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Cuban-born, Atlanta-based artist offers an effusive to creativity
It’s hard not to rejoice when a longtime Atlanta artist achieves Big Kahuna status with a show at the High Museum. Local artist Radcliffe Bailey scored big in 2011 with his retrospective Memory as Medicine at the museum and is probably still fist-pumping the air after scaling that career hurdle. Now the Cuban-born, Atlanta-based artist Alejandro Aguilera has garnered his own real estate in a more intimate, but still impressive show. About the Modern Spirit is an effusive, life-affirming group hug to human creativity that proves a nice juxtaposition with the neighboring show’s cuckoo-for-color graf-anime of the Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS.
About the Modern Spirit @ High Museum of Art
www.high.org
1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta
404-733-4444
Mar 6
SARAH MORENO
Publicado el sábado, 03.03.12
El Nuevo Herald
En el verano de 1994, Willy Castellanos comenzó a ver cómo una oleada intermitente de personas que transportaban balsas, pedazos de madera y gomas de camión en los techos de los automóviles, en bicicletas y sobre sus hombros, se acercaba a las costas del vecindario habanero de Miramar.
Entre los arrecifes de las playitas ubicadas en la primera avenida a la altura de las calles 32 y 34, los balseros construían o les daban los últimos toques a las precarias embarcaciones que los llevarían por el Estrecho de la Florida rumbo al norte.
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Feb 22
Is the quintessential “Trans-cultural Spiritual Pilgrim”. He is the archetype traveler whose painterly passages refer to his experiences of mobility and transpassing. Jose in many respects is a modern day Indiana Jones. His trips abroad start off about his encounters and observations jotted down in his journal, followed by dialogue, apprenticeship and ultimately long term friendships. His travels have produced a plethora of spiritual keepsakes, art and even shamans who have become friends for life.
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Feb 6
How long can you keep the wolf from the door? A powerful title for a powerful piece of art. Conceptual artist Rubén Torres Llorca is considered a living master. He works in many mediums and creates his installation art sets entirely by hand. His incredibly detailed paintings weave romantic film noir novels in constructed spaces that resound with quietness, impending drama and leave the audience riveted. He is akeen to the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.
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Jan 28
Cuban artist and fashion- Carlos Luna along side the Italian designer Daniela Gregis created the 2009 “skirt of the year”. The skirt, a fabric sculpture that you wear, serves as a countdown to December 25.
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Jan 15
Por Carlos M. Luis
Especial/El Nuevo Herald
15 de enero 2012
La conocida distinción que Nietszche hiciera entre lo que él denominó lo dionisíaco y lo apolíneo, tuvo su momento de mejor definición cuando los expresionistas optaron por la primera a partir de los comienzos del siglo XX. En realidad ese espíritu se manifestó mucho antes y bajo diversas corrientes artísticas y de pensamiento. Podríamos entonces ver en los claroscuros de Caravaggio o en los personajes de Goya, indicios de una constante del espíritu expresionista.
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Jan 12
Perusing fashion’s omnipresent color-blocking—a trend that surfaced in the fall/winter collections and which has only strengthened in the resort pieces now in stores and spring clothes due to arrive any minute—one can’t help but notice an effortless association between these architecturally inspired looks and a certain South Beach neighborhood. From bold color combi-nations to design treatments that are often decidedly linear in their graphics (what leaps to mind is the “engineered plaids” crafted by the always architecturally minded Narciso Rodriguez, who for resort was inspired by Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera), do designers have the Art Deco District on their minds?
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Jan 7
Cuban artist Tomás Sánchez, whose paintings of idealized tropical landscapes have earned him a place among the island’s most important living artists and have nabbed as much as $800,000 at auction in New York, has dabbled with photography for several years, taking point-and-shoot cameras with him as he has traversed the beaches, rain forests and mountains of Costa Rica, which has been home for more than a decade.
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Dec 30
by Mariana Atencio
12.09.11
Sociéte Perrier
Looking at Mario Algaze’s photographs on Latin America is like being transported to Gabriel García Márquez’s Cartagena or Julio Cortázar’s Buenos Aires. There is timelessness in his silver-gelatin or platinum, black and white images that can only be addressed with one word: classic.
“What I look for is a message that will resonate ten, fifteen years from now, and will stay timeless,” says Algaze, talking in his Miami home.
By using old fashion methods, Algaze is taking a stand against digital photography and photo editing software. His garage turned dark room could almost be regarded as art itself; making his pieces are even more genuine, because they speak of that modernist staple that characterizes Latin America and persists nowadays. Latin America is stuck in time, like Algaze’s prints, for good or bad.
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Nov 26
From Cuban Art News
With thousands of international collectors in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, gallerist and collector Gary Nader is hosting a major auction of modern, contemporary and Latin American art next Thursday, December 1. The sale includes works by Picasso, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Warhol—and five modern and contemporary Cuban artists.
Since early November, the works to be offered in “Nader’s Latin American, Modern & Contemporary Art Auction” have been on view at Gary Nader Art Centre, the vast 55,000-square-foot gallery and exhibition space in Miami’s Wynwood district. A selection was also on display in Nader’s booth at the recent PINTA New York art fair.
Butinantes, a 1945 canvas by Wifredo Lam, received the highest estimate among works by Cuban artists, at $700,000 to $900,000. A second Lam work, Sans titre (c. 1942), is estimated at $500,000 to $700,000. In all, six works by Lam are being offered, with the lowest estimate at $80,000.
Two 2007 sculptures by Cuban-born contemporary artist Jorge Pardo, Untitled (Melissa) and Untitled (John), are estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 each. Other Cuban artists represented in the sale are José Bedia, Cundo Bermudez, and Enrique Martínez Celaya.
Gary Nader Gallery webpage
Nov 22
From artdaily.org
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is reinstalling its contemporary art wing, which will open in fall 2012 launching a three-year, comprehensive renovation plan leading up to its 100th Anniversary in 2014. Known for its longtime commitment to collecting and supporting the work of living artists and acquiring works that speak to the events and innovations of our time, the BMA’s contemporary art wing features a significant collection of American art from the last six decades, including major late paintings by Andy Warhol, as well as works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Judd, Glenn Ligon, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Anne Truitt. The museum is also home to a remarkable collection of notable international artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Susan Philipsz, and Franz West.
Several new acquisitions will make their debut in the reinstalled wing, including A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Bear by the artist collaborative Allora & Calzadilla, Untitled (bicycle shower) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Live Ball by Nari Ward.
Nov 18
The 11th Istanbul biennial in 2009 was visited by 101,000 people. According to figures, this year’s biennial was the most successful yet. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann, the giant art event showed how similar human experiences constituted some of the most fundamental aspects of life. Central to the biennial was Cuban-American contemporary artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ works “Untitled” (Abstraction), “Untitled” (Ross), “Untitled” (Passport), “Untitled” (History), “Untitled” (Death With a Gun), which lent their names to five halls in the biennial venues Antrepo 3 and Antrepo 5 as each exhibition hall displayed “related” artworks.
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Nov 18
Cuban-born artist Mario Petrirena immigrated to the United States in 1962 at the age of eight. As one of 14,000 children who arrived in the United States in what was called Operation Pedro Pan, Petrirena and his siblings lived in an orphanage in Colorado for nearly a year before reuniting with their parents in Belle Glade, Florida. It was in this small town next to Lake Okeechobee where Petrirena received his initiation in American culture. He says, “Most of the Cubans that came early on thought that Fidel would fall and they would be able to go back and Cuba would resume as a democracy or a better Cuba. At first they really believed that. There was always a real appreciation about what this country had to offer as far as the ideals – the freedom of speech and being able to vote for a presid
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Nov 12
Por WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
http://cafefuerte.com/
Manuel Carbonell, el último patriarca de la escultura moderna en Cuba, falleció este jueves en Miami a los 93 años.
Escultor, dibujante y grabador, artista versátil y hombre emprendedor, Carbonell deja una obra que lo consagra entre los más singulares cread0res del arte escultórico cubano del siglo XX. Con su muerte, termina una ejecutoria de tradición y modernidad que logró imponer un estilo personalísimo y dotar sus piezas de un inusual sentido de calidez.
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Nov 7
In Spanish
Revista Encuentro
El pintor cubano Heriberto Mora expone Por los laberintos de Eva en la Galería Espacio, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, en este mes de octubre. A propósito, CUBAENCUENTRO ofrece una entrevista para dar a conocer la obra y trayectoria personal de este talentoso artista.
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Oct 27
From artdaily.org
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Following the success of the U.S. Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 54th International Art Exhibition, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will bring works by the collaborative team Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla to Indianapolis in Spring 2012. The IMA is acquiring Delta (Body in Flight), which will be presented with scheduled performances in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion March 8, 2012, through April 22, 2012. The artists’ Vieques Series, including Half Mast\Full Mast from the Pavilion, will also be shown in its entirety for the first time as part of the exhibition Allora & Calzadilla: the Vieques Series, on view March 8, 2012, through October 14, 2012, in the Holeman Video Gallery.
Body in Flight (Delta) and Half Mast\Full Mast are among the six commissioned works that comprise the U.S Pavilion exhibition Gloria, on view in Venice, Italy, through November 27, 2011. Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the exhibition employs a variety of artistic practices including sculpture, performance, video, and sound elements that destabilize existing narratives around national identity, global commerce, international competition, democracy, and militarism. To date, more than 280,000 visitors have seen Gloria at the Venice Biennale since it opened in June, and another 69,000 have viewed the exhibition online.
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Oct 26
1550 South El Camino Real
Encinitas, CA 92024
Vibrant, textured and bursting with a calculated chaos, the dynamic works of painter Emilio Perez also evince sculpture. The artist’s unique process entails painting sheets of latex and acrylic in different hues onto wood panels and then, using an x-acto blade, slicing away at and removing layers, revealing tracts of muted colors underneath. The canvases juxtapose freeform movement with labor-intensive, measured actions, simultaneously evoking upheaval and harmony, spontaneity and control. Dizzying, vertiginous patterns, roiling swirls, undulating lines and tornado-like vortices are interwoven with short, staccato breaks. They build up and collide into one another with a force that creates a physical and psychological phenomenon wherein the eye attempts to fill in for what is not actually there.
Article on Emilio Perez in Art Nexus
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Oct 23
MDC’s Art Gallery System will showcase the works of visual arts finalists at an exhibition at the Iconic Freedom Tower
Miami, October 14, 2011 - After reviewing nearly 100 submissions from around the world, the CINTAS Foundation has selected ten finalists in the visual arts category for its annual CINTAS Foundation Fellowship competition. They are Ivan Abreu, Harold Batista, Domingo Castillo, Ivan Depena, Coco Fusco, Jillian Mayer, Fabian Pena, Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, Ruben Torres Llorca, and Juana Valdes.
Miami Dade College (MDC), the new home of the world-renowned CINTAS Fellows Collection, will host an exhibition of this year’s visual arts finalists. The CINTAS Fellows Finalists Exhibition opens with an invitation-only reception at 7 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 27,at the college’s Freedom Tower.
Oct 16
domingo, 16.10.11
Carlos M. Luis
Es ya un lugar común afirmar que la invención de la fotografía (del griego photos, luz y grafos, escritura) cambió radicalmente el rumbo de la pintura moderna. Pero vale la pena recordarlo y en estos tiempos, aún más cuando la fotografía elevada a la categoría de arte, mezcla sus técnicas con la pintura. Inventada en 1826 por Joseph Nicephore y Louis Daguerrre, pasó por numerosas etapas de refinamientos hasta que en 1888 George Eastman introdujo su famosa cámara Kodak. Las fotos en color comenzaron a comercializarse en 1907, cuando la pintura había roto sus amarras con la “realidad” en cuadros icónicos como Les Demoiselles D’Avignon de Pablo Picasso. A partir de esa época, desde las fotos digitales y los numerosos experimentos que se han hecho con toda suerte de procedimientos, una nueva forma de expresión ha surgido, mostrando una vitalidad incesante. Pero a pesar de las variantes a la que ha sido sometida, la fotografía guarda para mí algo especial: su misterio mágico. La foto congela en el tiempo y en el espacio un momento de nuestras vidas, fijándolo para siempre tal y como ocurriera en el momento en que fue tomada.
Oct 16
Sunday, 10.16.11
By Anne Tschida
Special to the Miami Herald
The entry into this room at the Miami Art Museum, built specifically for this exhibit and seemingly recessed from the main gallery, is startlingly dark.
A dim light ahead suggests the way forward, but meanwhile a loud humming, or more like a chugging sound, fills the space, emanating from an almost old-fashioned looking machine. Turn the corner, and a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling reveals a solitary chair, a somber antechamber. The view from the chair is of a bed, also lit by a single light bulb, which in turn has its own view out into a winter forest with trees covered in snow, bereft of leaves. Although the doorway to this third room is blocked by a low fence built of branches, look closely and the bed is covered, literally, in a frozen blanket with pillow.
Oct 7
In Spanish
By: CARLOS M. Luis
Después de un largo periplo por el abstraccionismo de corte expresionista, Lia Galleti, nacida en La Habana y quien llegó a Nueva York en el 1960 y desde el 1970 vive en Miami, ha comenzado a explorar en su obra más reciente, otras posibilidades sintéticas para su pintura. No es la primera vez que sintiéndose incómodos dentro de la práctica constante de un mismo estilo, algunos pintores escojan otra vía expresiva. Sin abandonar del todo los procedimientos que la llevaron, en un momento dado, a cultivar las relaciones informales que aparecen en la pintura llamada por los críticos estadounidenses all over, Lia Galleti va descubriendo la figura como objeto de su atención. De qué figuras se trata, y a qué manera de interpretarlas obedece, nos dan la clave de los descubrimientos que va logrando su mirada en tanto que pintora.
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Oct 4
By Scarlet Cheng, Special to the Los Angeles Times September 11, 2011
“Many things come to me in my trips,” says artist José Bedia. “I see myself as a kind of anthropologist. I do field work, I collect things and take notes — and then the ideas start to come out.”
The ideas pour out in his powerful, outsize drawings, paintings and installations, which are full of references to his physical and spiritual journeys. Nearly 30 of his pieces are being presented in “Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia,” at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Sept. 18 to Jan. 8.
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Oct 3
The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center has installed a sculpture by Cuban artist Manuel Carbonell at the main entrance to the building. The work, titled “Torso” is a bronze sculpture with black patina. Carbonell is the last of the Cuban modern master sculptors of his generation. His work is often regarded alongside other internationally-known greats including Rodin, Henry Moore, Brancusi, and Lipchitz. His sculptures are unmistakably modern; he masterfully transforms metal materials such as bronze into works of beauty, grace and harmony.
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Oct 2
Por Jesús Rosado
Jorge Moya, ese amigo entrañable, nos ha permitido acceder al material visual que CANY atesora del Padre Miguel Angel Loredo. Teníamos cierta premura reflexiva en torno a ese legado pues cuando falleció el apreciado sacerdote todos los obituarios se enfocaron en la faceta biográfica ligada a su actitud patria. Comprensible. Pero, era lamentable obviar la sensibilidad ya no del teólogo o del hombre apegado a un activismo cívico, sino la de una honda vocación que compartía la incertidumbre de Deleuze sobre si las ciencias del pensamiento habrían aportado algo a la pintura o si a la inversa cabía “la posibilidad de que la pintura tendría algo para aportar a la filosofía”.
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Oct 1
Article – Nuevo Herald
In Spanish
by: Adriana Herrera
La exhibición individual de Aurora Molina en el espacio de Project Rooms de Bernice Steinbaum Gallery representa un desafío estético y ético para una sociedad que vive de espaldas a la realidad de la muerte y con la pretensión de negarse a aceptar el proceso natural de envejecimiento. Tan obsesivo es el culto que rinde a patrones impuestos de belleza corporal que por ajustarse a éstos sus jóvenes agonizan de hambre, o en cirugías invasoras.
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Sep 28
artdaily.org
NEW YORK, NY.- Frederico Sève Gallery presents Shaping Light, an exhibition of works by Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) featuring thirteen paintings and works on paper completed from the early to mid 1970’s. The Cuban-born American artist developed an early fascination with light and shadow on colored forms, and is celebrated for his architectural geometric abstractions, which are distinguished by their simplified forms.
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