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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 …
CALL FOR ARTISTS

CALL FOR ARTISTS

2020 has been a very complex year. Art has not been exempt and artists have left testimony of it. But it is time to look to the future. The ArteMorfosis platform wants to approach the expectations of young visual artists, residing in Cuba, for the new year that is beginning soon.  Send us a short video answering this question:  WHAT PURPOSES DO YOU HAVE WITH YOUR WORK FOR THE NEW YEAR?  Also send us up to three recent two-dimensional works.  The ArteMorfosis team will select up to 15 works for a group show to be held…Read more …
Call For Artists

Call For Artists

What experiences, what reflections, what lessons does the Covid-19 pandemic leave us with? Artemorfosis invites you to share the many nuances of the worldwide emergency. Where there is shade, there is light, and we invite you to share your vision of the unexpected aspects of the crisis. "PRISMA, the colors after a crisis", is a space to socialize the diverse visions of a common experience. If you are on Facebook or Instagram you can participate. The requirements and instructions for participation can be found at dev.artemorfosis.com/prisma. PRISMA's main goal is to present your…Read more …
Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén (Cienfuegos, *1987) graduated in Plastic Arts from the Provincial School of Art Instructors “Octavio García”, of Cienfuegos, in 2006. In 2014 she graduated in Social Communication. In the University "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez" of that city. She has made two personal exhibitions in her hometown and has participated in more than a dozen collective shows in Cuba and Venezuela. Her works are part of private collections in Cuba and the United States. There is in many of Yailén Sellén's engravings an almost childish candor, which evokes the illustrations of children's storybooks. Some,…Read more …
Osy Milian Painting life on Stage at the Züri Fäscht

Osy Milian Painting life on Stage at the Züri Fäscht

Osy Milian (*1992, Havanna) displayed her work for the fist time in Zürich in her exhibition FRAGMENTS in January 2018. One and a half years later she is back in Switzerland and painting life on the Brasil Latin Stage at the Münsterhof during the Zuri Fäscht - The City Festival in Zurich Osy Milian participated at the collateral exhibition NEW RADIANCE FOR THE CAPITAL which ArteMorfosis organized at the Hotel Gran Manzana Kempinski during the 13. Art Biennial of Havana. In the video Osy talks her work of the Biennial https://youtu.be/nW7lW5KobYARead more …