At a site topped by a green foliage, deep in the jungle of Mexico’ s Huasteca, surrounded by a crushing humidity, Edward James, a wealthy man from Scotland, amateur painter, poet, writer and patron of artists arrived one day…
Guillermo Machuca is a renowned theoretician, art critic, curator and academician in Chile, a man who in recent years has opted for some kind of silence or low profile. Far from leading major curatorship in or out of his country,…
Liliana Porter (1941) shoots with the effectiveness of a haiku through simple operations, with clean images and common objects placed in absurd or paradoxical situations. The Argentinean artist is one of the names to be…
Ethnotopia isa strategy of artistic representation, based on the synergic articulation of elements regarding the way of living and the habitat of a specific human group, obtaining as a result an indissoluble image. Such strategy is…
The Artistic Laboratory of San Agustin(LASA) is making headlines againin this Eleventh Biennial. Following its foundation four years ago in this community located in the west of Havana, it’s been four years of hard work to deliver art in…
(...) Organizing the Eleventh Havana Biennial in 2012 has been a challenge to the National Council of Plastic Arts, in the first place, and to the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, in the second, the latter being in charge of…
Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial, featuring artists who allegedly take the pulse of the visual arts in New York and around the world, is held under the same roof. What was the outstanding thing about this year’s edition then…
The latest edition of ARCO 2012 has come to a close, leaving the doors open to some kind of generalized optimism. Art analysts and an increasing number of economists describe a somewhat heart-wrenching view in their chronicles…
Esterio Segura’s new installation project for the 11th edition of the Havana Biennial (2012) implies the construction of a number of handmade underwater limousines and cars to be deployed along the Malecon seawall and other city areas in…
According to various seasoned Cuban artists and curators, one of the greatest weaknesses of our artistic field in the face of the international competition for exposé, positioning in the market, fairs and top-notch…
Q & A with Corina Matamoros
(...) All series of objects tell you something about the hand that collects them. That’s inevitable. It’s part of the…