Artists

From Cubanacan to the roads of the world: Tomás, Brey and Bedia

- By Virginia Alberdi Benítez - In 1981 an exhibition held at the International Center of Art in Havana became a reference point in the evolution of visual language in Cuba. Entitled as Volume I, a group of painters1 gathered works of dissimilar aesthetics showing an apparently paradoxical attitude to appropriate the tendencies of the time in the legitimating art centers in Europe and the United States and from them to inquire on the identities of cultures of the so-called Third World. Ten years later, several of the internationally recognized painters of that…Read more …
CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH – March 4 through March 23

CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH – March 4 through March 23

ArteMorfosis sets the theme 'CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH' for it's first independent exhibition Vernissage:  March 3, 2016, 6 p.m. Musical Evening; March 10, 2016, 6 p.m. Finissage:    March 23, 2016, 6 p.m. Alex Morales Puig, Alexey Cubas, Carlos Piloto Canovas are Cuban artists who live and paint in Zürich. They are representatives of a large number of cuban trained artists living abroad and amongst which world wide known artists have emerged. ArteMorfosis is setting the theme for its first independently organized exhibition on 'CUBAN ART MADE IN ZURICH' thus giving it a…Read more …
The Dream of Cubanacán

The Dream of Cubanacán

  – By Virginia Alberdi Benítez – When the biographies of Cuban painters, sculptors and engravers with a greater presence in the international circuits of exhibition and commercialization of the visual arts for the past five decades are reviewed, it is common to find a mutual reference in its formative stages: they have studied at the National Art School (ENA) or the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Flora Fong, Ernesto Garcia Peña and Gilberto Frómeta, who displayed their works in solo-exhibitions at ArteMorfosis during 2015 and currently are presented side by side in…Read more …
THE ART OF THE REVOLUTION

THE ART OF THE REVOLUTION

Flora Fong, Ernesto García Peña & Gilberto Frometa are representatives of the generation of artists who established their professional career as artists and art professors in the 60’s, and as such revolutionized and formed the aesthetics of the new Cuban society. The gallery ArteMorfosis celebrated it's opening year in 2015 with solo exhibitions of these artists because they embody the taste of the Cuban Society. Their work forms part of the collection of contemporary cuban art of the 'Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana', and is displayed in all art fairs in Cuba and -…Read more …
A VANGUARD BETWEEN “MULATAS” AND STAINED GLASSES

A VANGUARD BETWEEN “MULATAS” AND STAINED GLASSES

The first avant-garde in Cuban art of the 20th Century - Virginia Alberdi Benítez - Chronological time does not always conform to the real time. An English historian said the European twentieth century began with the bombing of Sarajevo and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall. The latter date also marked the end of the Cuban 20th Century- the Antillean nation, thereafter, has been and is a different one, even if it is also still the same- but the…Read more …