Artists

Carlos Quintana – Passage

Carlos Quintana – Passage

  • Posted on May 26, 2018
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– by David Mateo, Art Critic, Habana, 2018 - Carlos Quintana (*1966, Havana) began his artistic career as a sketcher and painter in Cuba in the early 1990s.His pictures from this period show clear features of neo-expressionism.At the time, this stylistic orientation was characteristic of other contemporary painters in Cuba.His works showed the influence of paradigmatic artists such as Schnabel, Baselitz, Kiefer and Kippenberger.Nevertheless, Quintana was not granted a rapid rise in the national art scene of Cuba.One reason for this was that as a painter he was formally traveling on alternative paths…Read more …
Osy Milian – ALL ABOUT HERSELF

Osy Milian – ALL ABOUT HERSELF

  • Posted on March 8, 2018
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Osy Milian (*1992, Havana) places images of herself in the center of her paintings. They are obviously not traditional self-portraits, one of the most established genres in the history of western art. But whoever sees these works will remember the words of Pablo Picasso: “At first, self-portrait is a apprenticeship and later it becomes a representation; here is how I see myself, here is how I think I saw myself.” The artist represents her personal experiences in a very distinctive way. She calls “Fragments” both the group of works and, of course, each one of them separately, which…Read more …
Carlos Quintana – CONTEMPLATION –

Carlos Quintana – CONTEMPLATION –

Carlos Quintana: Contemplation as a synthesis of Santería and Buddhism Carlos Quintana is one of the most internationally renowned Cuban contemporary artists. His work is influenced by many cultural influences, both of his home country and from his living and traveling abroad Carlos Quintana: Contemplation as a synthesis of Santería and Buddhism The figures and portraits of Quintana have in common a self-contained attitude: the distance, emotionless facial expressions and the barely comprehensible gaze, which characterize the figures of Carlos Quintana, testify to a kind of introversion or rather to contemplation. They are…Read more …
Osy Milian – FRAGMENTS –

Osy Milian – FRAGMENTS –

ARTIST’S EXHIBITION CONCEPT - Havana, 2017 - In a Net Art piece in which the spaces of art and life were intermingled, the Italian couple known as the 01 exposed their private life in a website that enabled users to see what they were doing at that moment, regardless of the time of day or night. With that gesture they put on the table the topic of privacy in the internet era, treating their own life as a work of art . Similarly, the recording of time in diaries and man’s need to leave written memory…Read more …
Osy Milian – FRAGMENTS –

Osy Milian – FRAGMENTS –

https://youtu.be/pKK24mua10U Osy Milián (*1992, Havanna) studied Art at the San Alejandro Art Academy and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, where she lives and works today. To fragment means to break something into small parts. In the exhibition FRAGMENTS the artists uses this fragmentation as art form, enabling her to reflect her own life and individual experiences in dialogue with the public.  Read more …
ArteMorfosis Now Accepting bitcoins – btc –

ArteMorfosis Now Accepting bitcoins – btc –

ArteMorfosis is now accepting bitcoin With the bitcoin rising in value, it is increasingly interesting to purchase art with your bitcoins, cash in on the achieved gains and spread the investment risks on unrelated investment opportunities. From an investment point of view, Cuban art is interesting, since it is systematically undervalued. The art-prices any given artist can achieve depends mainly on his home-market, which drives the general value of artists. The Cubans adore their painters, but they mostly do not have incomes allowing for purchase or collecting of original paintings, rather they by…Read more …