Keep tabs on contemporary Cuban artists and on those who appear on the Havana Cultura website. This is where you’ll find the latest info about their concert tours, gallery exhibitions, CD releases and book launches, in Cuba and around the world.
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, New York’s Center for Cuban Studies hosts an exhibition featuring a wide array of political, cultural, and movie posters authored by Cuban graphic designers from the 1960s up until today.
More information on the exhibit
Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela will tour Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay next May to present his new album No es el fin. The dates and venues are as follows:
09/05- Neuquén – Teatro Casino Magic
10/05- Rosario - Sala Lavarden
11/05- Buenos Aires – Teatro Sha
13/05- Santiago de Chile- Teatro Nescafé de las Artes
18/05- Buenos Aires – Teatro Sha
Jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca is touring Europe this spring to present his new album, Yo, which incorporates new musical influences, particularly African beats.
Concert dates and venues are as follows:
23/03 - Gateshead (UK), The Sage
24/03 - Manchester, RNCM
26/03 - London (UK), The Barbican
28/03 - York (UK), Theatre Royal
2903 - Brighton (UK), The Dome
30/03- Bristol (UK), St. George
01/04- Birmingham (UK), Town Hall
15/04- Paris (France), Duc des Lombards
16/04- Paris (France), Duc des Lombards
17/04- Paris (France), Duc des Lombards
20/04- Geneva (Suisse), Le bâtiment des forces motrices
21/04- Karlsruhe (Germany), Tollhaus
24/04- Darmstadt (Germany), Centralstation
25/04- Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Festival Printemps Musical de Luxembourg
27/04- Zurich (Suisse), Kaufleuten
Sacrificio en la encrucijada [“Sacrifice at the crossroads”] is a retrospective on the work of Cuban artist Alexis Leyva Machado, better known as “Kcho”. In the exhibition will be exposed a series of large-scale installations. The artist’s notebooks with his sketches and drawings will also be available to the public for consultation. Sacrificio en la encrucijada runs through April 11th at Havana’s Gran Teatro García Lorca.
Until April 7th, New York ‘s MagnanMetz Gallery hosts an exhibition by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea entitled Twisted Horizons. Using utilitarian structures, Arrechea invites the spectator to revise his interpretation of certain objects by associating them to unconventional ideas.
For more information, visit MagnanMetz Gallery’s website
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Los Van Van’s European tour starts this month:
March 2- Leeds (UK), 02 Academy Leeds
March 3- Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paradise Grote Zaal
March 5- Paris (France), La Cigale
March 7- Helsinki (Finland), The Circus
March 10- Copenhagen (Denmark), Lille Vega
March 11- Hamburg (Germany), Fabrik
March 12- Berlin (Germany), Kesselhaus I.D.
Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa will be featured until March 31st at an exhibition at Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Italy) entitled Sin solución [“Without a solution”]. Concepts like utopia and ideology--and more specifically, the demise of last century’s great narratives--articulate the exhibition. Garaicoa takes Havana, its architecture, and derelict spaces as a starting point for his reflection on the city’s political and social history, which is itself a metaphor of the 20th century.
Carlos Garaicoa simultaneously curates at the same gallery a collective exhibition, El camino más largo comienza con una simple línea [“The longest path begins with a simple line”]. Among the exhibitors we find Lázaro Saavedra, a politically engaged artist that has been a reference for Garaicoa as well as other artists of his generation.
« One million dollars » by Wilfredo Prieto was one of the most talked-about pieces displayed at ARCO Madrid, which took place last week. It consists of a one-dollar bill fit between two mirrors in such a way that the dollar image is indefinitely reproduced. The piece’s selling price is indicated by its name, and Prieto requires that potential buyers sign a contract that forbids them from selling it for any sum other than $1 million. The work is insured for its nominal value and a guard surveys it at all times. With this very original piece, Prieto sought to discuss the relationship between art and the speculative market.
The work of Cuban artists Alexandre Arrechea, Carlos Garaicoa, and Wilfredo Prieto will be present at the 2012 edition of Madrid’s leading contemporary art fair, ARCO, which will take place from February 15-19th. Also representing Cuba will be Los Carpinteros, an artistic duo formed by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez.
Starting on January 27th, the Wilfredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art (Havana) will host "Paisaje a los 37 años" (“Landscape at 37 years old”), a retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban artist José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca, better known as “JEFF”. The exhibition aims at presenting the different phases that have defined JEFF’s work during his 15-year artistic career, from his fascination with toys and childhood to his pieces centered on grief and mourning, without forgetting his famous elephants displayed at the 2009 Biennial and his more recent work’s marked activism.
To get more information
- on the exhibition, see Wifredo Lam Center
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