In this section you can have immediate access to the articles of CdeCuba Art Magazine, organized on the basis of the most recent publications. They are brief texts that are not restricted to a specific formula: you will be able to realize the diversity of approaches and the freedom our authors have to develop their writing profile. Above all, they seek to communicate quickly with the reader, who is offered a presentation of the aesthetic-conceptual proposal of each artist.

The group of writers is made up of critics and specialists who reside both inside and outside Cuba, of different ages and life experiences; emerging voices with new visions and others more established with a career in the criticism and study of Cuban Art.

Contemporary Cuban Art Articles

The main objective gravitates on the need to offer a wide and varied panorama that enriches the debates around Contemporary Cuban Art, with different reflections and approaches to the poetics of each artist; made with equally diverse tools: we can find orientations with historical, philosophical, aesthetic, sociological, anthropological analysis, applied to understand the discursive lines of each creator.

Felipe Alarcón Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Felipe Alarcon

Felipe Alarcón lets images of historical figures, intellectuals and Afro-descendant artists peek through transparencies and glazes in his paintings.

Ronald Vill

Uncertainty is a recurring element in Ronald Vill’s production, no strong statements are witnessed, only what is necessary to raise suspicions is revealed.

Brian Sánchez Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Brian Sanchez

Brian Sanchez’s painting is compulsive and intense, it simulates and transvestites the deepest desires, it achieves through it timelessness, awe and gloom.

Jorge César Sáenz Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Jorge Cesar Saenz

The artistic capacity of Jorge César Sáenz for sculpture and painting seduces and envelops us, with naturalness, subtlety and elegance, it is a temporary journey to the Middle Ages.

Brenda Cabrera, Cuban Contemporary Artist (By Shirley Moreira) artista cubana contemporánea

Brenda Cabrera

For Brenda Cabrera, each work is a sort of self-portrait where she lays bare her essence and, as a ritual, connects it to a much larger cultural universe.

Javier Barreiro Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Javier Barreiro

Javier Barreiro is interested in observing his surroundings, the images that are repeated day by day, where the urban grows guided by precariousness and adopts a form of survival.

Carlos Batista Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Carlos Batista

Carlos Batista’s works reveal a disturbing loneliness not exempt of drama; that contemporary drama that makes us oscillate between immediacy and a continuous desire for transcendence.

Hugo Azcuy Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Hugo Azcuy

Hugo Azcuy Castillo makes a work that is an extension of his own psyche, of his propensity towards the transcendent and of the dialogue between the human and the divine.

Antoine Mena Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Antoine Mena

The grotesque, the scatological, the perverted, the perverted, the sublime, the sexual, the dark, the disproportionate, the wrathful, the noble and the human, all come together in Antoine Mena’s work.

Regis Soler Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Regis Soler

Regis Soler has developed an extensive career as a sculptor dating back to the 1980s, experimenting with the appropriative process and assemblage.

Cesar Castillo

César Castillo delves into the folds of a political art in his own way. The figure of the forgotten antihero on the periphery of the local circuit is his theme.

Rodolfo Valdés Montes de Oca Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Rodolfo Valdes

Rodolfo Valdés Montes de Oca’s landscape creations are of a contemplative nature, capable of rivaling, in beauty and mastery, the world of Natural.

Octavio Irving Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Octavio Irving

In Octavio Irving’s works there is the echo of a city that speaks of erosion and wear, also of a knowledge acquired through cycles in constant succession.

Abraham Machado Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Abraham Machado

Abraham Machado points out among his main artistic references the impressionist painters, from whom he inherited the concern for light and the synthesis of stains and colors.

Luis González Rodríguez, Cuban Contemporary Artist, artista cubano contemporáneo

Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez

Luis A. Gonzalez’s form of expression is painting. However, music, video and a child’s games are also his means of communicating ideas.

Elio Jesús Fonseca, Cuban Contemporary Artist (By Luis Enrique Padrón)

Elio Jesus Fonseca

The work of Elio Jesús Fonseca has a marked existentialist background. For the choice of materials, the visceral nature of his scenes and the effectiveness he imprints on them.

Aissa Santiso, Cuban Contemporary Artist (By Yudinela Ortega)

Aissa Santiso

Aissa Santiso executes actions with rigor, as an artist (multifaceted, interdisciplinary, multimedial…) Painting, performance, photography, new media art, video art.

Contemporary Cuban Art Maikel Sotomayor, Cuban Contemporary Artist (By Nayr López García)

Maikel Sotomayor

For Maikel Sotomayor, landscape has been the neuralgic point of his most extended creative discourse. He conceives him to whom he must return.

Contemporary Cuban Art Alexis Lago, artista cubano (Por Maikel José Rodríguez Calviño)

Alexis Lago

The images I create reflect my long held interest in ancient myths, fables and the symbolic aspects in them.

Marco Arturo Herrera

Marco Arturo Herrera’s work is a backdrop for a reality that becomes monochromatic, where the history of a people fades in its impotence.

Joniel Leon

Drawing manifests itself for Joniel León as a space for meditation, challenge and experimentation, giving free rein to his obsession for detail.