Los Desnudos y el Eroticismo en el Arte Cubano / Nudes and Eroticism in Cuban Arts (2)

Los Desnudos y el Eroticismo en el Arte Cubano / 2nda Parte

 Nudes and Eroticism in Cuban Arts / 2nd Part



Servando Cabrera - Fin de Temporada



Servando Cabrera - La Hora del Bochorno



Servando Cabrera - Los Novios de la Lisa



Servando Cabrera - Los novios del mediodia



Servando Cabrera - Mas Alla del Horizonte



Servando Cabrera Moreno - Bandera blanca para un Desnudo



Servando Cabrera Moreno - El Espejo



Servando Cabrera Moreno - Gabi Fofo Milike



Servando Cabrera Moreno - La Trinchera



Servando Cabrera Moreno - Pilatos



Servando Cabrera Moreno - Primera Persona



Vicente Dopico Lerner - Estudio Para un Descanso



Zaisa Del Rio
Signos No 37



Luis Pardini - Morning Dish - Acrilico en Canvas

Manuel Mesa Hermida - Desnudo Femenino



Mariano Rodriguez - Desnudo Con Frutas



Mariano Rodriguez - Desnudo de Mujer

Mario Almaguer - Las Tres Gracias



Miguel Ordoqui - Gorda Fumando



Miguel Ordoqui - La Tentasion



Miguel Ordoqui - Orgia



Ramon Unzueta

Ramon Unzueta - Arlequin - Graphite on Paper - 8in x 10in - 2011
Courtesy of the Flores Carbonell Collection

Ramon Unzueta - Desnudo



Ramon Unzueta - Erotico en Azul
 Courtesy of the Flores Carbonell Collection



Ramon Unzueta - Jean



Ramon Unzueta - Sin Titulo



Ramon Unzueta - Tatuaje. Oil on board. 12 x 17.



Ramon Unzueta - Icaro



Ramon Unzueta - Papaya

Roberto Estopinan - Femenine Torso 2



Roberto Estopinan - Femenine Torso



Roberto Fabelo - Delicatessen de Ocho Comensales



Roberto Fabelo - Dibujo Sin Titulo - 1987
 Courtesy of the Flores Carbonell Collection



Roberto Fabelo - Pedazos de Munecas





Roberto Fabelo - Untitled



Rocio Garcia - El Bano



Rocio Garcia - Encarnados



Rocio Garcia - La Modelo

INVISIBLE PRESENCE. RECENT WORKS BY YOVANI BAUTA @ FREEDOM TOWER A U.S. NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK.

Invisible Presence: recent works by Yovani Bauta
Took place between June 7 – August 10, 2013
at the MDC Museum of Art + Design

Invisible Presence was Yovani Bauta’s first solo exhibition at the MDC Museum of Art + Design. A Cuban born, American Painter, Bauta’s artwork has manifested in many forms including traditional painting, drawing and sculpture; as well as installation, performance and interactive art. Spanning a career of over 25 years, Invisible Presence is an exhibition of recent works, including a new interactive installation, Head in the Bathroom, which explores levels of privacy and false senses of security.

 

Miami-based Artist Yovani Bauta's "Invisible Presence" Solo Exhibition at MDC Museum of Art+Design

Article By WHATSUPMIAMI  |  Posted May 31, 2013    

CNN PRODUCER NOTE    

For more than 4 years, Cuban-born, Yovani Bauta- one of the most important and representative Cuban artists in exile- has been working on a series entitled “Los Desamparados” inspired by Miami’s darkest shadow: the chronically homeless people usually forgotten whose "invisible" presence continues to tarnish the city’s progressive image.

His long-awaited solo show is finally set for next Friday, June 7th, 2013 at 6PM when an opening reception sponsored by City Social World, Bartenura Moscato, Capriccio on the River and Brugal Rum will formally inaugurate “Invisible Presence. Recent Works by Yovani Bauta” (On view through August 10th) at the MDC Museum of Art + Design, Freedom Tower.

According to the last assessment report to Congress published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2008, there were 671,888 homeless people across the nation. In Miami, the homeless population has dropped from about 6,000 to 835 in Miami-Dade County alone with 351 of whom still live scattered throughout Miami's Downtown streets, as reported three days ago by The Miami Herald.

Bauta is among a handful of U.S.-based artists that have carefully worked on this type of social projects. Artists such Minnesota-based Tammy deGruchy Grubbs, Maine-based Pat Apt, and Monterrey County-based multidisciplinary artist and journalist Kira Carrillo Corser, have all contributed exhibiting at the National Coalition for the Homeless "Church’s Bird Room Art Gallery" in Washington, DC.

Bauta was one of the first Miami-based artists to be featured in WHATSUPMIAMI-WUM on December 2010. WUM's editor Jesus Rojas Torres was greatly impressed and fascinated by Bauta’s vast experiential life, who at the young age of 13 was already painting his first naked model in art school taking evening lessons during two years before enrolling at the School of Visual Arts in Cuba.

“I learned the hard way, my teachers used wooden sticks and slapped our hands or arms with them to make a point; as a kid it was very easy to quickly move and fantasize on anything,” said Yovani Bauta, a former Miami-Dade College Portrait Painting Professor.

An artist with a career extending across a quarter century, Bauta also holds a degree in Law and was a practicing attorney for 6 years in Cuba, a period in which he did not touch a paintbrush completely disappointed about the conditions that were necessary in order to be accepted as an artist.

“Back then, almost every artist began to shoot and then paint large-size canvas, similar to Richard Estes’ work; not only it was the form adopted throughout the island, but also thematically in the sense that we had to praise the heroes of the Cuban revolution if we wanted to have any chance for exhibition opportunities,” said Bauta.

And Bauta had to paint several heroes, but there’s one of great significance the “Che Vencido” or “Che Vanquished” painted in the early 70‘s and acquired by a close friend of Che Guevara.

“Nobody has ever before attempted to paint a hero of the revolution defeated; I was lucky that a girlfriend of his bought it, so I was kind of safe,” said Bauta.

As a visual communicator and commentator of various social problems, Bauta paints for those who contemplate. His portraits are done in a wide variety of materials such as canvas or linen tackling themes relating to male and female bodies depicting their innermost feelings.

His ongoing social project leans toward the left. He takes the view of the elderly, homeless, disadvantaged and poor people depicting the helplessness on their faces and bodies.

Political in nature, Bauta’s work are iconic and direct. Art dealer and curator, Aldo Castillo has always been interested in promoting Bauta’s work, first at his gallery in Chicago and most recently, at his gallery in Estero, Florida.

“Most of Yovani Bauta's works are a combination of studied techniques with social commentaries on the deprived and the displaced; that makes his work important and difficult, nevertheless,” said Aldo Castillo.

Exploring the human resilience in the face of the daunting obstacles that confront the homeless, the elderly and the immigrants (Bauta’s latest series) "Invisible Presence" will present a total of 28 pieces, 15 oil on linen paintings and 13 drawings on paper.

In addition, Bauta will be showcasing an installation entitled “Head in the Bathroom” which explores levels of privacy and false senses of security.

“Installed throughout the museum’s bathrooms’ walls, it consists of photo-impression of my paintings which will look directly at the viewer instilling the feeling of insecurity, to be observed in the most private places,” he added.

Artist Talk: Thursday June 13th, 2013 at 6PM. Freedom Tower Museum, 600 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Free Parking at MC Parking Garage.

 

Hialeah rinde homenaje a los artistas latinos con “La Mano Hispana”



Del 4 al 25 de octubre la ciudad de Hialeah presenta la inauguración del evento de arte “La Mano Hispana”, una exposición que celebra nuestra rica herencia hispana a través de pinturas y esculturas en el Mes de la Hispanidad.

Bajo la dirección general de Noel Santiesteban y Vicky Romay y presentado por el alcalde Carlos Hernández y el Consejo Municipal, se presentará la Banda “Luyano” con performances, pinturas y esculturas en el nuevo Centro Milander de Arte y Entretenimiento (4800 Palm Avenue, Hialeah) a las 7.00 p.m.

De este modo, la ciudad de Hialeah pretende rendir homenaje a todos los artistas que han enriquecido la cultura hispana con el fortalecimiento de la identidad de los individuos y comunidades hispanas.

Tel. 305 889 5714

PAMM MUSEUM. AMELIA PELÁEZ: THE CRAFT OF MODERNITY DEC. 4, 2013 – FEB. 23, 2014

PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI. Amelia Peláez: The Craft of Modernity Dec. 4, 2013 – Feb. 23, 2014

Written by Leticia del Monte



Amelia Peláez, Marpacífico (Hibiscus), 1936
Private collection © Amelia Pelaez Foundation. Photo credit: Sid Hoeltzell.



 

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present a focused selection of works by Amelia Peláez del Casal (b. 1896 – d. 1968), one of the most important Cuban painters of the modernist era. Alongside artists such as Carlos Enríquez, Wifredo Lam, Victor Manuel and Fidelio Ponce de León, Peláez personifies the primera vanguardia—the first wave of Cuban artists who traveled to Europe before World War II, where they were exposed to Cubism, Surrealism and other contemporaneous styles. When these artists subsequently returned to the island nation, they introduced the artistic innovations they had adopted abroad and transformed them by incorporating aspects of their native cultural and national identities.

Peláez is best known for brightly colored, quasi-abstract compositions that feature decorative objects and ornamental architectural motifs, evoking the traditional domestic interiors of Havana. This exhibition will take a socio-historical approach, examining Peláez’s work in the context of the changing material culture and urban landscape of Havana during the first half of the 20th century.

Amelia Pelaez

Amelia was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas (now Sancti Spíritus Province). In 1915, her family moved to Havana, to the La Víboradistrict, and this gave her the opportunity to enter the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” at the rather late age of 20 years (students at this academy usually start at 12–13 years of age). She was among Leopoldo Romañach‘s favourite students. By 1924, she exposed her paintings for the first time, along with another Cuban female painter, María Pepa Lamarque. She transferred to Europe in 1927, and established herself in Paris, although she paid short visits to Spain, Italy and other countries.^[1]

In Paris, she took drawing courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1927), and later entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and the École du Louvre. In 1931, she started studying with female Russian painter Alexandra Exter. The Zak Gallery hosted her paintings in 1933, and next year she returned to Cuba.

She received a prize in the National Exposition of Painters and Sculptors in 1938, and collaborated with several art magazines in Cuba, such as Orígenes, Nadie Parescia andEspuela de Plata. In 1950 she opened a workshop at San Antonio de los Baños, a small city near Havana, where she dedicated herself, until 1962, to her favourite pastime:pottery. She sent her paintings to the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1951 and 1957, and participated in 1952′s Venice Biennale. In 1958 she was a guest of honour and integrated the International Jury of the first Inter-American Paints and Drawing Biennale.^[1]

Aside from painting and pottery, she dedicated time to murals, located mainly at different schools in Cuba. Her most important works of this type are a 65-foot-tall (20 m) ceramic mural at the Cuban Ministry of Internal Affairs (1953) and the facade of the Habana Hilton hotel

 

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum - Three new exhibitions with a focus on Cuban art and artists.

Fallece el paisajista Santiaguero, Miguel Angel Botalin Pampin

En la mañana de el 9 de Octubre, 2013, falleció, a los 81 años, el intelectual y pintor santiaguero Miguel Ángel Botalín Pampín, destacado profesor y promotor cultural y quien desde muy joven desempeñó distintos cargos en varias instituciones nacionales.

Botalín inició sus estudios en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas José Joaquín Tejada, de Santiago de Cuba. En el año 1953, se imbricó en la creación del Grupo Plástico de Oriente, institución de gran notoriedad. Posteriormente se desempeñó como profesor de la escuela de Artes Plásticas, asesor del ministro de Cultura Dr. Armando Hart Dávalos, director de la Revista Revolución y Cultura, y de la Editorial Arte y Literatura del Instituto Cubano del Libro.
Fue también asesor por la UNESCO en Nicaragua e Historiador de la Ciudad de Santiago de Cuba.

Entre sus principales reconocimientos se cuentan la Medalla Raúl Gómez García, la Distinción por la Cultura Cubana, la Medalla de la Lucha Clandestina, la Placa José María Heredia y el Premio de Honor del Festival Internacional CubaDisco 2011.

Fuente: Granma