Apología del silencio (o la astucia de tensar los límites)

I La obra del artista cubano Jorge Santos (La Habana, 1973) posee un acento fuertemente antropológico. El ser humano y sus principales dudas y conflictos existenciales se erigen como los núcleos temáticos de mayor interés para el autor. Sus personajes están preñados de angustia, soledad, aislamiento. Desidia. Son seres sufridos, que padecen un estigma indeleble: la incomunicación. Les ha sido vetada la posibilidad del habla, … Continue reading Apología del silencio (o la astucia de tensar los límites)

The art of melting borders

Riccardo Attanasio obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University. Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for … Continue reading The art of melting borders

Greater masters that have immortalized Notre Dame

There are few monuments that are more distinctly French or more woven into the history of France than Notre Dame Cathedral. As images of the fire ravaging through the historic church sparked outcries around the globe, people from all walks of life are mourning. Its place in Catholicism is undisputed, as is its role in French history. It was the site of some of the … Continue reading Greater masters that have immortalized Notre Dame

Allison Kotzig: Death Mask of the Fertile Crone

by Odette Artiles  Allison Kotzig’s oeuvre is raw and untamed, a provocatively tongue-in-cheek opus, and quite beautiful in a primordial sort of way. Her work carries an innate sense of mysticism and recalls folkloric aspects associated with nature, mythological creatures, dark magic, and the divine feminine that binds it all. Allison’s works are conceptual by nature and focus on fertility, sex, and the life-death-rebirth cycle. … Continue reading Allison Kotzig: Death Mask of the Fertile Crone

La revolucionaria respuesta al 349

La historia de la Revolución Cubana esta llena de expropiaciones y apropiaciones. El grupo Pro-CI (Proyecto Curatorial Independiente) presenta en el Museo de la Revolución con motivo de la XIII Bienal de La Habana, “349 Arte Revolucionario”, una exhibición que explora 60 años de arte cubano y reúne 349 obras importantes de pintura, escultura, fotografía, video, instalación y performance, de artistas cubanos que vivieron, o … Continue reading La revolucionaria respuesta al 349