{"id":207252,"date":"2019-10-09T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=207252"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T00:58:34","slug":"cuban-iconic-posters-take-a-leap-to-the-21st-century-by-way-of-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/visual-arts\/cuban-iconic-posters-take-a-leap-to-the-21st-century-by-way-of-art-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban iconic posters take a leap to the 21st century by way of art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Twitter “wall”, plywood that comes to life as a mural sculpture, clothes made of bicycle flanges and wheels or a Cubanized version of The New Yorker<\/em> coexist in a collective exhibition in Havana that pays tribute from art and <\/span>design<\/span><\/a> to the rich Cuban poster tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Conexiones” (Connections), curated by Spaniard Concha Fontenla and which can be seen starting this week in the Factor\u00eda Habana Gallery, is an ambitious project that has brought together 43 contemporary artists and designers in a heterogeneous tribute to Cuban graphics that also serves to eliminate borders between different disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Graphic, industrial design, illustration, wardrobe design, installations, all types of artistic manifestations are linked. I have a hard time putting up barriers, because we already put them up in our lives and times,” Fontenla told EFE.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Spaniard Concha Fontenla, 2017 National Prize for Curatorship, speaks with EFE at the opening of the “Conexiones” exhibition, in the Factor\u00eda Habana Gallery. Photo: Yander Zamora \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the three levels of this space in the heart of Old Havana, graphic works, installations, furniture, clothing, sculptures and photography will coexist until January in a risky bet that starts off with a tribute to the \u201cexceptional roots\u201d of graphic design, fruit of the posters of the Cuban Institute of Cinema Arts and Industry (ICAIC).<\/span><\/p>\n

“All those who came later in graphic design owe much to Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Reboiro, Ren\u00e9 Azcui, \u00d1ico, Julio Eloy Mesa,” said the expert.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work of artists like Michele Miyares, who reinterprets the magazine The New Yorker in “The Havaner,” or that of Erik Silva, who in a game of typography, words and geometry recreates the deities (Orishas) of Afro-Cuban Santeria, now take from those impressive posters of Cuban films from the 1960s and 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n