Contemporary visual arts will be at the Habanarte Festival 2014 with various activities and performances throughout the city, which will be taken by art from today.
They are focused on the impact of alternative forms of information flow in today’s Cuba, new artists will open as part of the sixth Hall of Contemporary Art (SACC) this weekend the XL2 (for the two) and Other stories exhibitions.
XL2 will open on Friday at7:00 PM at the Center for the Development of Visual Arts and the Library of Cuba bringing together very young artists with different aesthetic proposals. The exhibition organizes a core on art collecting virtual or physical publications, and institutional or personal projects that function as replicators and binders of ideas about art. This opening is complemented by the presentation of the project RZKa and DJ Kike Wolf and Architect vs. Grinch in the Old Square.
The other stories, it is also a group show and can be seen from Saturday 13th at 7:30 PM in the halls of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, from where it will move to the Cathedral Square to run through a decade of animation in Cuban audiovisual.
It includes video art, commercials, public good messages, cartoons, video clips, installations, video games, visual experiments, interactive works and mapping sessions.
Both exhibitions will be open to the public until mid-October and will be complemented by specific theoretical cycles on the area of research that each presents.
This hall, which is considered an exercise in development since January of this year to January 2015, dwells on the trails symbolic production transits through in the country and has historically obeyed to a research dynamics and a curatorial approach from a determined reflection. Puts its spotlight on the artistic production of the Cuban reality, as well as new art morphologies and for that purpose, summarizes a set of interventions, conferences, exhibitions and workshops all connected from diverse perspectives whose themes range from information communication channels in addition to its circulation in our context.
Thus, combining this with Habanarte, becomes successful initiative that connects two events of different fields. Organized by the National Council of Plastic Arts and the Center for the Development of Visual Arts since its first edition in 1995, has allowed reflect on the routes of Cuban art, following a line of research established by the team of specialists from the CDAV given the time frame in which the event has been registered.
Besides these two exhibitions, Habanarte proposes several options such as night visits to gallery and museum spaces with new proposals. One of the most interesting is undoubtedly Havana Open House project in which participants will have the opportunity to visit the workshops of more than a dozen contemporary artists, where their works will be exhibited and people will dialogue with the creators in the production process. Prominent among these options are visits to Kcho Studies in Romerillo and Diago Gallery, where exhibition of naïve art will also be present.
This festival aims to turn the city into a gallery as in times of biennials. This 2014, there won’t be the Havana Biennial, but as it has happened during those days, the best of the Cuban visual arts will take street and institutions to show the latest of our productions and their creators.
During these days of Habanarte some of the pieces and protagonists of the paradigmatic exhibition Volume 1, which catalyzed the arrival of Cuban contemporary art, will be exhibiting at La Acacia Gallery, where the exhibition 2 × 2 will also be presented with works of recognized artists belonging to the Group of the 11.
The Acacia also join other galleries in the Night Gallery space, with the presence of guest artists and groups that will bring together jazz music with the visual arts in a perfect marriage of good Cuban art. For its part, Rene Portocarrero Silkscreen Workshop will host a group exhibition of young artists of graphic arts which will be presented and silkscreened posters of the prestigious Project CACA (Club Friends of the Poster) will go on sale.
The National Museum of Fine Arts and Genesis Galleries will also be part of this great celebration of art, in which the protagonists of contemporary visual art will performs their daily activities.
