Andy Llanes
Andy Llanes Bultó plays with the paradoxes of subtracting from his dark characters the resentment that their loneliness provokes.
Stories
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.
The work of Rafael Villares is articulated in an unusual visual aesthetic, impossible to condense in a segment. The artwork of José Gabriel Capaz demonstrates a discursive will, based on contemporary visual culture. The false, the appearance, the representation: the hidden man, the beauty as camouflage, in this case, the dramatized life. His nudes do not pretend to be based only on the attributes and parameters that this photograph is often assumed. In the work of Reynier Llanes, scenes and imaginary passages from two different geographies are randomly woven together. The influences of Aryam Rodríguez are of oriental thought -mainly Buddhism- to Afro-Cuban religious practices. What is normal? Life belongs to those rare and exceptional individuals who dare to be different… The city of Bernardo Navarro Tomas stores the trace of a journey that multiplies between memory and present. The artist deals with the everyday through established philosophies, and he does so from the subjectivity of different points of view. In the work of Armando Recamán there are two clear markers, the spiritual and esoteric, and personal relationships. The portrait is the support through Eric Alfaro reaches the unfolding in a true connoisseur of academic bias. The work of the young artist William Acosta borders the rugged contemporary world of image and publicity. Art as an act of free expression and the artist as an anthropologist and tireless researcher of its environment and context. Frank León is an artist who, from his existential experience and the use of different techniques, creates his work. The works of this artist respond to an action-reaction experienced in his day to day on the island of Cuba. Pedro Valerino has the ability to give new values to painting from a more current and carefree vision. The work of this artist has the ability to melt form and content effectively in just a few centimeters. KHRONOS ART GROUP appropriates consumer models and ideas to create a work with an ironic sense. With a powerful visual narrative, Michel Pérez Pollo invites the viewer to immerse himself in a vibrant and energetic universe that evokes a deep connection with contemporary identity.
Rafael Villares
José Capaz
Miriannys Montes de Oca
Osiris Cisneros
Reynier Llanes
Aryam Rodríguez
Maikel Domínguez – Lis Rodríguez
Bernardo Navarro
Frank Rodvent
Armando Recamán
Eric Alfaro
William Acosta
Yuniel Delgado
Frank León
Adrián Socorro
Pedro Valerino
Danco Robert Duportai
KHRONOS Art Group
Michel Pérez Pollo