Jan 19
****Exhibit held over****
October 18, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
400 N Ashley Drive
Tampa, FL 33602
Essay by Joanne Milani, FMoPA Board of Trustees
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams” Aeschylus
Look, but don’t touch. Reach, but don’t grasp. Dream, but don’t wake up. That is how an exile feels about the homeland he cannot reclaim, and that is how Mario Algaze feels about Cuba. Born in Cuba in 1947, he remembers a happy childhood in the well-to-do Art Deco Havana neighborhood of Miramar. He can recall “the smell of seaweed and saltwater washing on the rocks.”
It was a magical time. He remembers his mother taking him to the ballet, and he remembers seeing the Alec Guinness movie, Our Man in Havana being filmed on the streets of the city. All this ended when he was 13 years old. That’s when he was brought to Miami by his parents. He was 52 years old before he was able to return.
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Jan 19
By: Megan Voeller – Tampa Bay Creative Loafing
In the early 1970s, Mario Algaze’s career got off to a quick start when he landed a job as a Miami-based freelance photographer for Zoo World, a music magazine and competitor to Rolling Stone. For the then-20-something, Cuba-born photographer, the gig meant a chance to immerse himself in America’s revolution of sex, drugs, civil rights and artistic expression.
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Nov 13
December 2, 2012 – January 2, 2013
McDermott Gallery
Siem Reap, Cambodia
McDermott Gallery Old Market is pleased to announce two photography exhibitions by seven photographers as part of the eighth annual Angkor Photo Festival.
Link>>Press Release
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Oct 12
October 18, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
200 N Ashley Drive
Tampa, FL
Look, but don’t touch. Reach, but don’t grasp. Dream, but don’t wake up. That is how an exile feels about the homeland he cannot reclaim, and that is how Mario Algaze feels about Cuba. Born in Cuba in 1947, he remembers a happy childhood in the well-to-do Art Deco Havana neighborhood of Miramar. He can recall “the smell of seaweed and saltwater washing on the rocks.”
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Sep 26
Thursday October 18, 2012
6:00PM – 8:00PM
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts 400 N. Ashley Drive
Cube 200
Tampa, Florida 33602
Look, but don’t touch. Reach, but don’t grasp. Dream, but don’t wake up. That is how an exile feels about the homeland he cannot reclaim, and that is how Mario Algaze feels about Cuba. Born in Cuba in 1947, he remembers a happy childhood in the well-to-do Art Deco Havana neighborhood of Miramar. He can recall “the smell of seaweed and saltwater washing on the rocks.” It was a magical time. He remembers his mother taking him to the ballet, and he remembers seeing the Alec Guinness movie, Our Man in Havana being filmed on the streets of the city. All this ended when he was 13 years old. That’s when he was brought to Miami by his parents. He was 52 years old before he was able to return.
Invitation
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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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Sep 15
published in Exhibits - New York City
tags : art, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, cuban photographers, Mario Algaze, New York City, photography, Throckmorton Fine Art
MARIO ALGAZE – FORTY YEARS
November 10th – January 7th, 2012
145 EAST 57th STREET, 3RD FLOOR
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022
TEL 212 223.1059 | FAX 212 223.1937
Opening reception:
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 6-8pm.
Book available:
Mario Algaze, Portfolio: $125.00
Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit highlighting four decades of work by the accomplished photographer, Mario Algaze. The exhibit will present 35 images included in the handsome catalogue of his work published in 2010, Mario Algaze: Portfolio. Algaze has worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including his native Cuba, and his photographs reveal his intimacy with the region and its peoples.
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Jul 17
published in Articles
tags : art, Carol McCusker, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Culture, Mario Algaze, Miami
by Carol McCusker
From Mario Algaze Portfolio, Di Puglia Publisher, 2010
A conversation with Mario Algaze is an exuberant experience. He talks openly and passionately about politics, photography, movies, travel, weather, food, music, and love, all punctuated by wit, profanity, and vivid description. All of this is to say that Algaze is not a man who gradually ascertains his tastes. He intensely
initiates, then quickly internalizes information and experience, resulting in the immediate recognition of what he finds true.
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Mar 31
published in Books
tags : Alejandro Anglada, art, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Culture, cuban photographers, Cuban photography, Jorge Moya, Mario Algaze, photography
Photographs by Mario Algaze.
Di Puglia Publisher, 2010.
151 pp., Black & white illustrations througout, 9¾x12¼”
Introductions by Carol Mc Cusker , chief curator at MoPA with a translation into Spanish by Enrique Fernandez.
Designed by Jorge R. Moya and Alejandro Anglada of MGSCOMM, NY
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