Surrounded by Water: Expressions of Freedom and Isolation in Contemporary Cuban Art
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The art from the period represented in this exhibition has recovered and renewed the cosmopolitan traditions characteristic of the most advanced Cuban intelligentsia, and with a sense of its own prestige has firmly claimed a place on the international scene. The reaffirmation of outstanding aesthetic qualities, at the generational and individual level, is a process inseparable from the history, the politics, and the social and cultural upheavals in whose midst these artists worked. This turmoil is reflected, from different points of view, in the works selected for the exhibition. For example, among them are allusions to the frequent, risky, and illegal emigration of rafters from Cuba to the United States, and comments on the insularity, understood as a state of geographical isolation-with cultural resonance and as an existential, solitary condition of individuals.
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Contents: Surrounded by water : expressions of freedom and isolation in contemporary Cuban art, Natania Remba, Plates, Sandra Ramos, José Manuel Fors, Ibrahim Miranda, Ernesto Pujol, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado), José Bedia, Carlos Garaicoa, Rocí García, Tomás Sánchez, Manuel Mendive, José Ángel Vincench, Iván Capote, Los Carpinteros, Yoan Capote, José Ángel Toirac, Meira Marrero Díaz, Patricia Clark, Belkis Ayón
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Boston University Art Gallery, February 9-April 5, 2008.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57)
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