With the aim of updating Chinese people on Cuban contemporary art, the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre (SUPEC) will exhibit from next March the sample ¨Rodando se encuentran. ¨
A total of 150 works of various manifestations, expressions, styles, formats and techniques arrive to the major Chinese exhibition area to continue with the activities organized by the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP) by its Spanish acronym) in recent years, in response to the growing interest by Cuban contemporary art that exists in the Asian nation. Various Chinese galleries and private and institutional collectors have acquired pieces of our most representative artists.
This sample- conceived as the largest plastic exhibition going out the island to the Asian public, includes painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and video art from a hundred creators of dissimilar generations such as the National Plastic Arts Awards Pedro Pablo Oliva, Roberto Fabelo, Nelson Dominguez, Alfredo Sosabravo, Adigio Benitez, Ever Fonseca, among others.
Those attending SUPEC may appreciate great works of Cuban culture of the second half of the twentieth century and the twenty-first, no doubt, a unique opportunity to enjoy great artistic pieces belonging to CNAP collection.
Located in the center of Shanghai People’s Square, SUPEC has exhibited transcendental transient samples of significant artists from across the globe as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and John Portman, and various Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, among many others, art collective selections.
This cultural approach to China began in 2010, when it was celebrated half a century of relations between the Asian nation and our country. As a tribute to that event it would be inaugurated at that time a huge hotel decorated with Cuban art.
The Gran Meliá Shanghai has 3500 pieces of sixty Cuban artists. This luxurious five-star hotel facility is a Chinese-Cuban project and is a symbol of modernity and tradition of the region. It features a huge mural of Cuban abstract painter Rigoberto Mena, an artist who is also included in the selection the viewers of that city will enjoy soon.
In September of that same year, at Dongcheng Xin gallery of Shanghai Dashanzi Artistic District, it was exhibited a retrospective of the last four decades of Cuban pictorial creation through the work of seventeen recognized artists as Lázaro Saavedra, Roberto Diago and Rocío García, who will also repeat this time.
In the words of the organizers of ¨Rodando… this is the most comprehensive Cuban sample reaching the distant continent. In parallel, in the same museum, the CNAP will organize conferences, meetings and conversations that aim to achieve an interrelationship with the public interested in learning about the visual arts of the Caribbean island.
Author
Cecilia Crespo
