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Ernesto Benítez Environmental art For a Religated Reality Religation Room Big Cultural Disorder (Aesthetics of Decadence and Disequilibrium) Cultural Anthropology - Religare (Religatio): Sala de Religación Realidad Religada Borderline, Galería Villa Manuela Gallery UNEAC Habana Arte Contemporáneo-Antropología

Borderline, A Radiography of the Contemporary Subject

By: Piter Ortega Núñez
“The self-alienation of the human being has reached such a degree that it allows him to live his own destruction as an aesthetic enjoyment of the first order”. This famous Benjaminian sentence, expounded in his anthological text “The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproducibility”, was the first idea that came to my mind as I toured Ernesto Benitez Borderline, a solo show at the Villa Manuela Gallery of the UNEAC from May to June 2006…

Ernesto Benítez My Illusion Antropología Filosófica (Arte y Ontología); El ámbito mediador Yo-Tú (auto-referencia Arte Contemporáneo) Arte Cubano Control Surveillance: Art and Ontology (OneThousand Eyes) Digital Contemporary Art Photography Visual Text and MassMedia Panopticon

Findings

By Elvia Rosa Castro
Nobody is perhaps aware of the fact that Nicholas Flamel, the famous French alchemist who affirms having discovered the Philosophal Stone in 1382, kept a manuscript, at the time of his death, revealing the antecedents of his alchemist practices as well as those of his book Hieroglyphica. Flamel, wise man who could even read Latin, had received from his wife Perenela -not a clue of where she found it- a piece of work titled De Veritate… I do know something about its origins though…

Ernesto Benítez All Names of God VI: Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios VI (Dibujos sobre papel) Arte Contemporáneo cubano. Muerte de Dios

All names of God VI: Scalpel (Scalpel)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God VI: Scalpel (Scalpel). Drawing 2007 Ink-Pencil on paper. 110 x 75 cm. Private collection. La Casona Art Gallery (Genesis Art Galleries), Havana.
Ernesto Benítez Ink-Pencil Drawing Visual Arts, All Names of God VII: Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios VII: Escisión, Amputación del sujeto contemporáneo (Dibujos sobre Papel). Arte Contemporáneo Cubano

All names of God VII: Mochliskos (Bone Levers)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God VII: Mochliskos (Bone Levers). Drawing 2007 Ink-Pencil on paper. 110 x 75 cm.
Ernesto Benítez Ink-Pencil Drawing) Visual Arts All Names of God IV: Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios IV: Escisión, Amputación del sujeto contemporáneo (Dibujos sobre Papel). Arte Contemporáneo Cubano

All names of God IV: Spathumele (Spatula Probes)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God IV: Spathumele (Spatula Probes). Drawing 2007 Ink-Pencil on paper. 110 x 75 cm.
Ernesto Benítez Ink-Pencil Drawing) Visual Arts Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios V: Escisión, Amputación del sujeto contemporáneo (Dibujos sobre Papel). Arte Contemporáneo Cubano

All names of God V: Ferrum Candens (Cautery)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God V: Ferrum Candens (Cautery). Drawing 2007 Ink-Pencil on paper. 110 x 75 cm. Private Collection, Cuba
Ernesto Benítez Ink-Pencil Drawing) Visual Arts, All Names of God II: Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios II: Escisión, Amputación del sujeto contemporáneo (Dibujos sobre Papel). Arte Contemporáneo Cubano

All names of God II: Cucurbitulae (Cupping Vessels for Blodless)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God II: Cucurbitulae (Cupping Vessels for Blodless). Drawing 2009 Ink-Pencil on paper. 110 x 75 cm. Private Collection (Barcelona, Spain)
Ernesto Benítez Ink-Pencil Drawing) Visual Arts, All Names of God I: Deus Otiosus. The Death of God in Contemporary Art Todos los nombres de Dios I: Escisión, Amputación del sujeto contemporáneo (Dibujos sobre Papel). Arte Contemporáneo Cubano

All names of God I: Acutus (Sharp Hooks)

Fracture, Scission, Amputation. A Doctrine of the Soliloquy (cultural monologue): Deus absconditus Share Contemporary Art: All the names of God I: Acutus (Sharp Hooks). Drawing 2007 Ink-Pencil on paper. 100 x 70 cm.
Ernesto Benítez Religio, Relegere, Religare Contemporary Art Exhibition (Absurd Harmony of Being) Instalación Cinética Ambiental (Environmental Art): Absurda Armonía de Estar. Instalación artística (Arte Cinético) Arte Contemporáneo Specific Site. Kinetic Art

Absurd Harmony of Being (Coincidentia Oppositorum)

Everything is Silence, Emptiness, Nothingness, Conscience: Absurd Harmony of Being (All Names of God). Environmental Kinetic Art Share Contemporary Art: Absurd Harmony of Being (Coincidentia Oppositorum) 2007 Kinetic installation with sound. 7 Metronomes made of wood and metal with electrical system. Each device oscillates with different cadence generating a particular sound. Environmental Art 220 x 120 x...
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