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The Cuban Visual Arts Magazine.Art OnCuba is a novel, innovative project that provides diverse viewpoints about Cuban art.With a stylized design, in tune with international tendencies, this magazine gives readers the opportunity to connect with the thoughts of the best-known curators and art critics who have worked with Cuban artists in and outside of the country.Information and tendencies related to the art market are featured prominently in our publication, in interviews and reports on gallery owners, appraisers, and collectors of Cuban art.Art OnCuba will be distributed in the United States—Miami, New York and the East Coast, fundamentally—and in galleries, museums and art centers all over the world.The magazine is published by Hugo Cancio, a collector of Cuban art and president of the publishing company Fuego Media Group, owned by Fuego Enterprises, Inc. (public company FUGI: OTC), which also has Mr. Cancio as its President/CEO.HOW TO CONTANCT USThe Art OnCuba team is at your disposition.We are waiting to hear your proposals, questions and recommendations.USA/Leticia del [email protected]
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THE CUBAN VISUAL ARTS MAGAZINE . JUNE ! AUGUST "#$%
A journey through Tonel’s geography · Alexandre Arrechea hits New York 55th VENICE BIENNIAL · Q & A: Howard Farber & Luis Miret
J.M. Fors · Tomás Sánchez · Eduardo Ponjuán · Sandra Ramos · Inti Hernández00
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Editor in Chief / Publisher HUGO CANCIO › [email protected]
Executive Director ARIEL MACHADO › [email protected]
Executive Managing Editor TAHIMI ARBOLEYA › [email protected]
Art Director LLILIAN LLANES › [email protected]
Editorial Director / Editor DEBORAH DE LA PAZ › [email protected]
Design & LayoutVÍCTOR MANUEL CABRERA MUÑIZ › [email protected]
Translation and English copyediting ROSE ANA BERBEO› [email protected]
Spanish copyeditingYAMILÉ TABÍO› [email protected]
Commercial director & Public Relations / Cuba HAI FAJARDO › [email protected] / +53 5 2515269
ART OnCUBA a publication of Fuego Media Group, a division of Fuego Enterprises, Inc., a publicly traded company (FUGI)
ART OnCUBA copyright Fuego Media Group, all rights reserved
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CoverTONELIluminaciones, 2012Acrylic pigment on wall123 x 96 cm
DOUBLE!BLANKIn these times, when many are advocating the end of the print media and favoring digital publishing, undertaking a project like this can evoke the most impassioned utopian ideas.
We had the good fortune of coinciding in the same space and time with a team that saw the necessity of a magazine with these characteristics for pro-moting Cuban art outside the boundaries of the island, a magazine holding that undeniable magic of the printed word that has captivated humanity for centuries.
Hugo Cancio, president of the Fuego Media Group, and his fantastic pro-duction team for OnCuba magazine set about !nding the sta", examining options, and opening the way for this new publication. Through that process, we became even more !rmly convinced that the realization of Art OnCuba was essential for achieving an ecumenical perspective on Cuban art, creating space for projects generated by artists on the island and by those who live in other parts of the world. The opportunity of taking this knowledge to the international circuit was another de!ning factor for us. In a world where mag-azines focused on the present almost always champion poetics legitimized by institutions and the market, we want to make a di"erence by providing information in each issue that connects contemporary visual production with the history of art in Cuba, o"ering a perspective on the past that enriches and reveals keys to the present.
For this issue, No. 0, we have put together a diverse and comprehensive selection, beginning with exhibitions that re#ect maturity in investigative, curatorial and museographic work, as well as the projection and in#uence of Cuban art in U.S. circles. The !rst cluster of articles takes a look at a solo show by Tonel at Factoría Habana described as “an extraordinary exercise in systemization”; the lucidity of two Cuban curators, José Manuel Noceda and Nelson Herrera Ysla, in their conception and production of exhibitions reveal-ing new ways of appreciating Wifredo Lam’s work and the course of contem-porary architecture and graphic design, respectively; Eduardo Ponjuán’s most recent proposal for Galería Habana; the inclusion of two works by J.M. Fors in the Pilara Collection; and the magnitude of Alexandre Arrechea’s NOLIMITS in New York.
Another section of Art OnCuba is devoted to exploring Cuba’s participa-tion in the Venice Biennale, with a historiographical overview that begins in 1952 and ends with projections for Cuba’s 2013 pavilion, curated by Jorge Fernández and Giacomo Zaza. In taking a look at galleries that work with Cuban art in and outside the country, as well as art collecting in its di"er-ent forms, we have included interviews with Luis Miret, director of Galería Habana, and with Howard Farber and Alfredo Sosabravo. And yet another cluster of articles seeks to inform our readers about projects—both recent and in progress—by Cuban artists from di"erent generations, including reviews of the work of Sandra Ramos, Inti Hernández, and Carlos Martiel; an inter-view with Tomás Sánchez, and more. We also pay our own special homage to Cuba’s national !ne arts museum, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, as it celebrates its centennial, and give you all the details regarding the release of a photography portfolio by Iván Cañas.
Art OnCuba is born. What will be simply a surprise, or an impact, for read-ers has been for us a convergence of various perfect moments, joined by per-severance, chance, and experience. That is why we are con!dent about this magazine, bolstered by our certainty that its content and visual quality will take it very far.
As expert competitors in the very Cuban game of dominoes, we drew the double-blank—an unexpected move, surprising and magnifying the interest of everyone who is paying attention to the game.
LLILIAN LLANES and DEBORAH DE LA PAZ
NELSON HERRERA YSLA (Morón, Cuba, 1947)Art critic, curator, poet. Co-founder of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center and the Havana Biennale in 1984, and director of that event from 1999 to 2001. His reviews have been published in magazines such as Art Nexus, Inter, Atlántica, Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana, Casa de las Américas, ArteCubano, La Gaceta de Cuba, ArteSur, and others.
ONEDYS CALVOShe holds a master’s degree in art history. Lives and works in Havana. Is a curator with the City Historian’s O$ce and contributes to various specialized publications, such as ArteCubano, Revolución y Cultura and OPUS Habana. She also contributes to the radio station Habana Radio as a journalist, and is the principal specialist for the contemporary art project Factoría Habana.
SANDRA SOSAShe holds a master’s degree in art history, and is a curator and editor. She was an editor at the ArteCubano Ediciones publishing house from August 2001 to July 2006 and is now news edi-tor at Noticias de ArteCubano. In 2009 the Latin American Council of Social Sciences awarded her a mention in the Essay category of the contest Cuba, 50 years after the Revolution: assessment, challenges and prospects.
ARMANDO SUÁREZ COBIÁN (Antilla, Cuba)Since his !rst poetry collection, Corre ve y dile (Ediciones Extramuros), was published in 1986, his poems have been included in anthologies and magazines in Cuba, the United States, Italy, Spain, Venezuela, Nicaragua, France and Luxembourg. His book of poetry Nueva York no eres tú, for which he won the 2004 Cuban Artists’ Fund Grant, is soon to be released in Havana by the Ediciones Torre de Letras publishing house. His forthcoming novel El libro de los amores breves will be published by Linkgua. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is working on a novel about New York.
AUGUSTO RIVERO MAS (San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, 1940)He is an architect specializing in urban plan-ning and environmental design. He is a found-ing member of the Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC) and of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). He is an advisory professor to Cuba’s arts university, the Instituto Superior de Arte, which has awarded him for Pedagogical Merit and Artistic Merit.
ISABEL MARÍA PÉREZ PÉREZ (Bayamo, Cuba, 1968)She is a journalist, and chief editor of ArteCubano Ediciones, the publishing house of the National Visual Arts Council. She was awarded the 2011 National Curating Award, along with Rubén del Valle Lantarón, for the exhibition From Abstract Formulation To Humanistic Utopia, Soviet Vanguards in the IVAM Collection, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba.
HAYDÉE L GUTIÉRREZ (Havana, 1962)She holds a degree in philology from the University of Havana’s Faculty of the Arts.
NAHELA HECHAVARRÍA POUYMIRÓ (Santiago de Cuba, 1980) MA in art history (University of Havana 2006), MA in museum studies, Carolina Foundation & University of Valladolid, Spain (2007). Visual Arts Specialist at the Casa de las Américas (Havana), and chief editor of the art magazine Arteamérica (www.arteamerica.cu). She has curated 10-plus exhibitions at Casa and abroad (Belgium, France), and has participated in coordinating and/or producing 25 shows.
HAMLET FERNÁNDEZ (Cabaiguán, Cuba, 1984)Holds an art history degree from the University of Havana’s Faculty of Art. Is a professor of art culture theory with the University of Havana’s Department of Theoretical and Social Studies of Culture. He is a visual arts and audiovisual media critic, and contributes regularly to magazines such as ArteCubano, Cine Cubano, La Gaceta de Cuba, Arte por Excelencias, and others.
MILDREY PONCE (La Habana, 1982)She holds a history degree. Since 2006, she has been editorial coordinator and a journalist with the online magazine Cubanow. She specializes in cultural and historic issues. She also has contrib-uted to other media, such as Cubarte, Cubacine, Cartelera de Cine y Video & Letters de Cuba.
IRINA LEYVA-PÉREZ (Havana, Cuba, 1970)BA in art history, University of Havana. MA in liberal arts, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. She is an art historian, art critic and curator based in Miami. She has lectured at Edna Manley College and was assistant curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston. She is currently the curator of Pan American Art Projects, a regular contributor to a variety of publications, and author of catalogues of Latin American artists such as Leon Ferrari, Luis Cruz Azaceta and Carlos Estevez, among others.
JORGE R. TOLEDO (1982)Since 2008, he has been a specialist with SubastaHabana. In 2010 he curated the collective exhibition En otra dimensión for Galería Habana, and between 2011 and 2012 he worked on ¡Artya a la Vista!, a collective project in Madrid that brought together three Latin American art exhibitions held at the Fundación Pons, the Ayuntamiento de Tres Cantos and the Centro Cultural Tamara Rojo.
JUAN CARLOS BETANCOURT (Havana)Independent writer and curator. Since 1998 he has lived and worked in Berlin. His essay Missachtung of nostalgia, diaspora, subjectiv-ity and utopia was published in Volume 28 of Theory and Criticism of Culture and Literature, Investigations on Cultural Signs (Semiotics-Epistemology-Interpretation), Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert. Curator and associate artistic director of the Latin America and Spain section of the transdisciplinary project Overtures, initiated by artcircolo in Munich, Germany.
ESTRELLA DÍAZ GARCÍAShe holds a journalism degree, and works as on-air announcer, scriptwriter, and director of various cultural programs at Habana Radio, including Luces y sombras [Light and shadow], which has promoted artists of all generations and esthetics for the last 15 years. She contributes regularly to publications such as ArteCubano, La Jiribilla, Opus Habana and Granma Internacional, among others.
RAFAEL DÍAZCASASRafael DíazCasas is an art historian and indepen-dent curator based in New York. He writes about art and culture for several publications. Co-author of Hard Light: The Work of Emilio Sánchez. He is currently working on a monograph about the history of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century in Cuba.
DIRELIA LAZO (Havana, 1984)She holds an art history degree from the University of Havana. Participated in De Appel Curatorial Programme from 2009 to 2010. She is now organizing a year-long exhibition series, The Story Behind, which will open at Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona. She regularly contributes articles to catalogues and magazines on Cuban and Latin American art.
ARIADNA RUIZ ALMANZAA journalist, critic and researcher on subjects related to Cuban !lm. She is now working on the publication of her book El collage de la nostalgia, about the documentaries of director Nicolás Guillén Landrián, and is conducting her latest investigation, about 2.0 documentaries in Cuba.
ABELARDO MENA CHICURI (Havana, 1962)Art Historian, curator and art critic. Curator of the International Art Collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and of the Farber Collection in Miami. Founder of Photography-Cuba. Co-curator of the exhibi-tions The Lost Gaze, Cuba 1970-1984 and Small Maneuvers: Cuban Contemporary Photography. CEO of M&M Arte+Media.
GRETHEL MORELL OTERO (Camagüey, Cuba, 1977)Historian of Cuban photography, curator and art critic. She is author of the books Otras Historias de la Fotogra!ía Cubana and Damas, Es"nges, Warriors: La Mujer en la Fotogra!ía cubana desde el siglo #$#. Co-curator of the exhibitions The Lost Gaze, Cuba 1970-1984 and Small Maneuvers: Cuban Contemporary Photography.
IN THIS ISSUE
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WIFREDO LAM AT HIS CENTERNelson Herrera Ysla! [email protected]
A JOURNEY THROUGH TONEL’S GEOGRAPHYOn the artist’s recent solo show at Factoría HabanaOnedys Calvo› [email protected]
QUASIMODOSandra Sosa Fernández› [email protected]
THE OTHER CITY: EXCHANGE, THE CONSEQUENCESArmando Suárez Cobián! [email protected]
SIGNS FOR ENHANCING LIVING ENVIRONMENTSAugusto Rivero Mas -Architect-› [email protected]
FORS AT PIER "#: CITY AND MEMORIESIsabel María Pérez Pérez› [email protected]
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CUBA IN LA BIENNALE, THROUGH THE YEARSHaydée L. Gutiérrez› [email protected]
"$%&… HAVANA!VENICENahela Hechavarría Pouymiró› [email protected]
“CUBA’S GREAT ARTISTS ARE WAITING FOR THEIR GREAT GALLERY DIRECTORS”Interview with Luis Miret, director of Galería HabanaHamlet Fernández› [email protected]
MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES: AN ANNIVERSARY AND MOREMildrey Ponce› [email protected]
HOWARD FARBER AND THE FUTURE OF CUBAN ARTIrina Leyva-Pérez› [email protected]
! From left to right: ANA MENDIETA - Untitled from Sandwoman Series, 1983 / Vintage silver gelatin print / The Farber Collection | CARLOS MARTIEL - Umbral| A view of Alfredo Sosabravo’s garden from the window of his studio | Girls from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes workshop display their interpretations of the poetics of Amelia Peláez | LASA, the San Agustín arts laboratory / Environmental system of construction elements / Part of the Señales de vida exhibition
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THE BRIDGES OF SANDRA RAMOSJorge Toledo› [email protected]
INTI HERNÁNDEZ: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN INTENTION AND REFLEXESJuan Carlos Betancourt› [email protected]
TOMÁS SÁNCHEZ: IDEAS EXPRESSED WITH ARTEstrella Díaz› [email protected]
BLOOD, EPIPHANY AND REVELATION BODY RITUALS IN THE ART OF CARLOS MARTIELRafael DíazCasas› [email protected]
THE VALUE OF ABSENCEKunsthalle Basel, March 24 – May 26, 2013Direlia Lazo› [email protected]
ALFREDO SOSABRAVO: CONTEMPLATING LIFE, OR THE ART OF MODELING MEMORIESAriadna Ruiz Almanza› [email protected]
IVÁN CAÑASEL CUBANO SE OFRECE, #$ YEARS LATERGrethel Morell and Abelardo Mena› [email protected]
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