Tag: Cuba
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Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’
The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
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Gustavo Pérez Monzón: ‘Interests, obsessions and people keep appearing in my life’
The Cuban artist discusses his return to production, a fascination with the systems of arcane sciences and why teaching and practice are born of the same spirit of enquiry
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Enrique Martínez Celaya: ‘The sense of past as memory always has force’
Enrique Martínez Celaya talks about his latest show, The Gypsy Camp, and his interest in nomadism and displacement, including his own experience of moving as a child from Cuba to Spain and then to the US, and explains his process…
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The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam
He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…
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Cuba Libre, Con Permiso
Artists are the plutocrats in Cuba and, with trade embargos with the US likely to be lifted soon, storied collectors and celebrities are already scouting around for their works.
