By Omar Pascual Castillo
Interesting. It turns out to be interesting to meet up here, at the beginning of a text when attempting to treat a theme like THE CUBAN NATIONAL IDENTITY. This time, as plastic speech or, to be more exact, as aesthetic philosophem of painting and installative art potentiated by what is known to be the most knowledgeable in interpretative and histographic matters within the artistic world such as…
By: Marlen Arrébola and Licet González.
Let there be no more talk of this absurd maxim: we need new things, we have to adapt to the times, everything changes, everything is changing, everything is changing, perhaps nature is changing, the light and the air are changing, the passions of the human heart have changed since the times of Homer? We have to adapt to the times: but what if my times are in error, because my neighbor does wrong, I am obliged to do it too, because they have a false idea of virtue?
By: Toni Piñera
A piece of pottery, any stone with the mark of an ornament, or a vestige of an ancient civilization, can be the object of a true cult by modern man. And if he is an artist, he questions the past as he was never questioned, in an effort to know better our roots, to know better where we came from? The current work of the young painter, draftsman and engraver Ernesto Benítez (Havana, 1971), which he recently exhibited at the Wifredo Lam Gallery…
