Cuban artist Jesús Hdez-Güero in his studio in Madrid. Courtesy of the artist
With the work Luis Manuel-Boitel (2020) the visual artist Jesús Hdez-Güero, based in Madrid, joins the support
of a wide swathe of the Cuban artistic community for Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who in the last six months has gone on two hunger strikes to demand
freedom of creation and an end to the repression of dissenters.
The collage, part of the
Proteus Syndrome series, with two versions forming a diptych,
also evokes the Cuban poet Pedro Luis Boitel, a fundamental figure in the history of dissidence on the island, who died 53 days after declaring
Written by J. Alberto Guzman, April Ranck
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UPDATED, May 8: The Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) has awarded the 2021 poster design with an allusion to peace (at right) to Elena Mathis, student of Mass College of Art in Boston. An accompanying $500 aims to assist a student in advancing art studies.
Mathis s design creates a strong connection with the viewer while the bird taking center stage, making direct eye contact and spreading his feathers announce the festival
. The bird carries an olive branch in its talons,
an ambassador of peace.
Elio Villafranca Wins Guggenheim Award
Villafranca was classically trained in piano, percussion, and composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba.by BWW News Desk
Born in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba, Steinway Artist, pianist, and composer Elio Villafranca is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; a two-time Grammy nominee; 2019 Downbeat Critic s Poll Rising Stars Pianist; winner of the 2018 Downbeat Critic s Poll Rising Stars Keyboard; first Cuban born recipient of the Sunshine Award (2017), founded to recognize excellence in the performing arts, education, science and sports of the various Caribbean countries, South America, Centro America, and Africa; and a recipient of the first Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) Millennium Swing Award in 2014.
Tomás Esson’s Erotic Politics
At David Lewis, New York, a presentation of the artist’s recent paintings and drawings reveals his continued obsession with sexual imagery and socialist Cuba
The Cuban artist Tomás Esson hasn’t shown in New York in over a decade; his last solo outing in this city was in 2011 at the now-defunct Ramis Barquet – a gallery that specialized in contemporary Latin-American art. This spring, however, at David Lewis, Esson returns to Manhattan with the solo exhibition ‘KRAKEN’ – an extensive overview of his more recent painting and drawing. The show also coincides with the artist’s 30-year career retrospective, ‘The GOAT’, at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Both exhibitions were organized by Gean Moreno – ICA Miami’s curator of programmes – who neatly positions ‘KRAKEN’ as a bookend to ‘The GOAT’, presenting works that culminate in the artist’s most iconic and explosive visual play of whirling sh