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PRISMA 4 – Curating in Virtual Space

PRISMA 4 – Curating in Virtual Space

Behind many exhibitions of visual arts is the figure of the curator, in charge of spinning themes and speeches, to function as an interpreter between the receiver and a certain aesthetic proposal. The Havana Biennial has been, throughout its history, an eminently curatorial event, focused on reflecting on the problems of the Third World through the art produced in these regions. Coinciding with the 14th edition of it, ArteMorfosis proposes to encourage curatorial practice as a creative exercise, generator of meanings and knowledge that provide new readings about Cuban art and its context.…Read more …
Results – Cuban Digital Art & Crypto Art Market

Results – Cuban Digital Art & Crypto Art Market

VR-Exhibit - Computer VR-Exhibit - Phone / Pad In its quest to contribute to the promotion and presence of Cuban art through its artists, ArteMorfosis - Cuban Art Platform, convened ‘PRISMA 3 - Cuban Digital Art and crypto Art Market’, with the purpose of encouraging the presence of Cuban artists in the art spaces of NFTs, a phenomenon that in recent years has been increasing in importance and creating a universe of new commercial possibilities. In response to this call for artists, a total of twenty-nine works by the same number of artists…Read more …
ArteMorfosis en Telegram

ArteMorfosis en Telegram

Desde que en 2019 ArteMorfosis decidiera enfocarse por completo en el espacio virtual, hemos generado iniciativas y proyectos que impulsen la presencia del arte cubano en Internet. Si algo ha caracterizado todas estas propuestas es la intención de que los artistas cubanos comprendan la importancia que tiene, en la actualidad, mostrar y circular su obra por las vías que ofrece la red. Como parte de estas acciones se ha creado un canal en Telegram, donde compartiremos la actividad habitual de ArteMorfosis -exposiciones virtuales y convocatorias-, así como información de interés para artistas cubanos,…Read more …
Artes plásticas en las redes sociales: cambio de paradigma

Artes plásticas en las redes sociales: cambio de paradigma

- Por Virginia Alberdi Benítez - La pandemia del coronavirus ha tenido repercusiones incalculables no solo en los órdenes sanitario, económico, material y financiero a escala mundial, sino también en la vida cultural de casi todos los países. Si, para decirlo con el concepto de Mc Luhan, la internacionalización de las relaciones sociales había llevado a conformar una aldea global, en la que la comunicación emergió como un factor de primerísimo relieve, las nuevas circunstancias imperantes confirmaron tendencias y acentuaron procesos en ese campo que implicaron un cambio radical en los modos de…Read more …
Notes on PRISMA – New Year’s Resolutions

Notes on PRISMA – New Year’s Resolutions

Commentary by ArteMorfosis, February 2021 Marco Arturo Herrera (1991. La Habana, Cuba) - Pa’ la caliente | For the Heat 2020, Mixed on canvas, 170 x 140 cm There is in this selection of works an unresolved tension between the artists' manifest desire and artistic implementation. Times of crisis, it is known, can stimulate a formal and conceptual renewal of artistic propositions, but it can also numb impulses. In times of economic uncertainty, the self-preservation instinct has triumphed. It does not seem that these creators intend to revolutionize their ways of expression, to…Read more …