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Duvier del Dago – Making of STANDBY

Duvier del Dago – Making of STANDBY

Duvier del Dago built all three installations of the exhibition STANDBY on site. The central installation is a 3D drawing placing a drone above a giant dragon fly for ultraviolet illumination. The time lapse video shows the 2 final days of work. https://youtu.be/NDBdmwCZbLg   In total more than 4'000 meters of vertical carrier threads were suspended between over  2'000 ring screws. The actual spacial drawings were laid out using 400 meters of artificial silk attached to the carrier threads with knots. The installations are radiated with ultraviolet light making the artificial silk radiate…Read more …

Ethnic awareness in the Cuban art I (XIX Century to the first half of the XX Century)

- Virginia Alberdi Benítez -   An important area of the Cuban art reveals the ethnic awareness of the inhabitants of the Antillean Island. The encounter between Africa and Europe in the creation of the Nation determines that “condition of the soul” characterized by the Cuba anthropologist Fernando Ortiz as the element essential of the Cuban character. It is not about just an instrumental category. While in The United States and Brazil the Afro-Americans or Afro-Brazilian identities are profiled, according to the case, in Cuba almost nobody is defined as "Afro-Cuban", what doesn't…Read more …