Havana people sometime miss a suggestive proposal, which generates debates. This is the kind of brain lethargy that informed public automatically refuse when knowing about an exhibition of plastic artist Lázaro Saavedra (Havana, 1964). Neural systems get i nstantly activated, which promote empathic approach to irony, the triple meaning and sophisticated and intelligent " mocking". His outstanding career justifies it, both for his participation in collective creation experiences as ¨Puré and Enema¨, as in his constant morphological renewal through foray into the technological art, a keen aesthetic of "junks" or through the use of a caustic, colloquial and anarchic humor. Saavedra is an artist who has continually indigested the systemic mechanisms that promote paralysis and absorption of artistic discourses, even those that at first seemed the most daring and rebellious ones. "Altar de St. Joseph Beuys" ( 1989), "Con la fuerza del ejemplo" (1993) or "El detector de ideologias" (1989) are some of his flagship samples in this regard. These works exemplify, in my opinion, the bold aim of promoting the exact idea at the neuralgic moment. Dates tell a story, the reader just have to consult the individual parts of the socioeconomic and cultural events of the last decades....

Anyone visiting these days the premises of Factory Havana, a gallery on O'Reilly Street in Old Havana, may experience estrangement and delight suddenly. The postmodern artistic languages ​​tend to be eccentric, if we stick to the crescendo of resources like self-referentially, providing aesthetics to "ignoble" materials, and the alleged cynicism of some proposals... D'DISEGNO. Cuban Response! does not discriminate in this regard, the twenty artists that make up this sample is at least diverse in its ambitions, languages​​, materials. The design as production field, mating home production and technology is actually a term in a process of redefinition, which covers areas as divergent as creating computerized or traditional drawing shapes, you can fix a cabinet or a sophisticated sandal. The art-design approach has been mutual. The iconic Bauhaus School was a German icon of progress, modernist positivism, but in essence it has been the only attempt of interconnection between the world of art and design. In fact, it is common for certain creations of the last decades are placed in the space of reckless uncertainty: those fascinating sculptural furniture and interior by Boda Horak or costume and shoes designs by Anouki Bicholla, lead the consumer to lie on some and...

I had to return to Pinar del Rio to understand Utopito, his energy and failures, its quintessence. Only through the return trip I got to feel like him, the changes of his steps from kilometer 148 of the National Highway. We can rebuild Utopito's biography through impressions, anecdotes, and fragments of a singular life, dull at the same time, of a Pinar del Rio man, a Cuban from the westernmost area in the country, preferred space of our geography. Occasionally Pascual and Angulo accompany him. Through them are manifested, is made known at that moment-unseen to the common eye, that they possess the rare quality to reveal to us the most significant thoughts. Uto is a prototype of Pinar del Rio man, forgets the past, criticizes the present and expects the tomorrow. He loves traveling and craves inevitably sea like a it is the way somewhere, as if the future had concrete expression that could be traced in the pages of a School Atlas. His existence is due to the disagreement, a visceral and unconditional sense of personal freedom and boundless imagination of the plastic artist Pedro Pablo Oliva, Pinar del Rio chronicler that continues to amaze us. Uto is...