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By Antonio Correa Iglesias
While there is a visual production that, being Cuban and contemporary, is anchored in technical automatism, in the glossy patina, in the recurrent figuration, in the empty image, in an anxiety to monetize rather than to create something truly new, there is another one that consolidates its processes of inquiry with the sole objective of finding that which constitutes us ontologically. The elusive question for ontology catalyzes here a nature in terms of inquiry, once it does not pursue an attitude as vindication…

By Abram Bravo Guerra
Adjusted to the keys of a past and present with its own dramas, the Cuban visual narrative has cleverly played with the reinvention of processes, styles, discourses, even worn-out speeches. It seems to me a perfectly natural path in a context for which moving at the wrong time has been, more than a matter of regret, a safe bet to take things with a certain reflective distance… However, what about the reflective dissent from Cuban art?…

By Arianna Covas Alemán
From irreverence and satire, Benitez enunciates his theses, of great tropological density and solid conceptual foundation. His artistic proposals are the tip of the iceberg of a whole research process in which philosophical, socio-historical and anthropological knowledge are interconnected. Thus, approaching his work is an intellectual exercise in which any interpretative naivety is discarded. There is nothing puerile and fortuitous in his creative work, but rather a skein of signifiers that the receiver must…

by Yenny Hernández Valdés
Let us briefly review Hannah Arendt’s ideas on the importance that for her the philosophical postulate of “humanity” has taken on for current generations, inasmuch as it has become an urgent reality due, among other issues, to the impact that the West has had on the rest of the world, not only because of an evident saturation of its products and technological development, but also because it has “exported” its recipe on the construction of the nation-state as the only possible form of government…

By EDGAR ARIEL
Leviathan is the title of the exhibition with which Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benitez (Havana, 1971) returns to Havana since his last presentation there in 2019. The exhibition can be seen from January 13 until January 17 at the Zambrano Hall of the Hispano-American Cultural Center, located at 17 Malecon Avenue, between Prado and Capdevila, Old Havana…

By RIALTA STAFF
Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benitez (Havana, 1971) exhibits in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, his most recent work, gathered under the title Reset Work. The show, inaugurated on Sept. 15 as part of the Nit de l’Art 2022 festival, will be on view through mid-November at the Mallorca Progress Society. The Nit de l’Art 2022 in Palma was organized by the Art Palma Contemporari gallery association. This year the event reached its

By: Artcónica Team
After a long period of time away from the national exhibition scene, Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benitez returned to the island to inaugurate the exhibition Ab æternō, in his Open studio, taking advantage of the context of international visibility offered by the XIII Havana Biennial. Numerous friends, artists, art critics and curators, interested in reconnecting with the creator and assessing the trajectory of his visual production in recent years, have attended the space -eventually located in the Vedado…

By Lida L. Sigas
Ernesto Benítez gives to us a least part well-known of its production, the exhibition will be from September 10 in gallery La Casona. In this occasion the exhibition will be composed only by drawings. This manifestation, although recurrent in spite of his inquire into other supports, it rarely appears in an exclusive way in his show. His immediacy provides now to him the dose of necessary truthfulness to make model that it obsesses him everyday. The natural decontextual…