Abel López Valdéz (Havana, *1985)

Abel López Valdéz (Havana, *1985)

López Valdés, who lives and works in Havana, studied in the Experimental School for Visual Arts “José Antonio Díaz Peláez” and continued studies at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 2004 . He is a member of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS ). Abel worked as a designer for the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba from 2008 to 2010 . He is also a video maker at REMACHE studio.Read more …
Hector Frank Heredia García (Havana, *1961)

Hector Frank Heredia García (Havana, *1961)

Trained engineer and self-taught artist, Heredia García has organized workshops for children and teenagers. He is a member of the Visual Artists Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC ). He currently lives and works in Havana.Read more …
Carlos Quintana – Passage

Carlos Quintana – Passage

– 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

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 …