"Living in Havana" Exhibition
Marlborough Chelsea
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Each of these five artists addresses life in the city of Havana with their work, exploring the paradoxes associated with inhabiting a place with a magnificent recent past and an impoverished, yet culturally prosperous present. What is unique about this group of artists is that they all thrive and produce work in Cuba, and the challenges they face there inform their art. Each of these artists is operating in the precarious space of a politically charged environment, and working to articulate, artistically, their journeys throughout this social landscape. Corina Matamoros, chief curator at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, wrote that the selection of artwork in this exhibition, “draws us inward to the dark corners, to the coarseness of the materials and their implied meanings, to the sublimely humble, to the environment that brings the works together, to Habana profunda (deep Havana).”
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Schedule
from May 19, 2011 to June 18, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-19 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Abel Barroso, Roberto Diago, Kcho, William Pérez, Ernesto Rancaño