Q & A. Nine Contemporary Cuban Artists
Q & A. Nine Contemporary Cuban Artists
Q & A… gathered in each new edition the voices of Cuban artists who, with marked intention and courage, observed Cuba in full transition. How are we seen? How do we see ourselves? These were the extremes of a long list of interrogations when they spoke about Cuba at the time. As citizens, the guest artists identified relevant problems of social life, politics and the economy, without falling into dogmatic positions or political activism; and as artists, they translated their most personal experiences with the language of art that they know so well. These artists examined their country and themselves, while attempting to discuss the paradox of how the visions, even stereotyped ones, of the rest of the world on Cuba helped to configure their own insular identity.
Q & A… was conceived by its curator as a mutable exhibition than in each new venue and circumstance would change the number of artists and works to approach new research topics to broach the most heated political, social and cultural debates of the moment. It was therefore a dialog between curatorial questions and artistic responses that were trying to understand the scenario in which it took place.
Curator
Cristina Vives
Organizers
Estudio Figueroa-Vives / IDB, Washington, D.C. / Museum of Art + Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida / Ignacio Barrios, Madrid.
November 30, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Museum of Art + Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida
Art OnCuba, United States / November 30, 2016
Con la pelota en su cancha. Cristina Vives ofrece sus respuestas
By Marilyn Payrol
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Agencia EFE, Spain / November 30, 2016
Artistas que viven en Cuba responden con arte en EE.UU. la incógnita de la isla
By EFE
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El Nuevo Herald, United States / November 28, 2016
Nueve artistas cubanos: visión polivalente de la realidad cubana actual
By El Nuevo Herald Editorial Staff
El Museo de Arte + Diseño (MOA+D) del Miami Dade College (MDC) presentará Q & A, Nine Contemporary Cuban Artists. Esta exposición de nueve artistas cubanos contemporáneos que trabajan varias técnicas destaca un universo que refleja una visión polivalente de la realidad cubana actual…
Miami Dade College Forum, United States / November, 2016
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By MR
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Miami Dade College Forum, United States / February, 2017
The Long Journey Home
By WV
Life has now come full circle for Tony Labat, a Cuban-born, San Francisco-based conceptual artist and professor.