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Kendall Art Center
The Kendall Art Center is an arts center in Kendall, Miami-Dade County, Florida in the United States. It houses the Rodriguez Collection, owned by the Cuban-born American businessman Leonardo Rodríguez and his family. History The center was opened in 2016, and has shown several personal and collective exhibitions by emerging and established artists. The Rodriguez Collection is a Cuban contemporary art collection owned by Rodriguez and his family. Rodriguez began buying and selling works of art during the late 20th century, and established his permanent collection in 1994. The collection aims to reflect significant artistic developments in contemporary Cuban art, as well as its development in the United States and abroad. Artists * Ángel Acosta * Gustavo Acosta * Carlos Alfonzo * Jairo Alfonso * Néstor Arenas * Pedro Ávila * Luis Cruz Azaceta * Henry Ballate * José Bedia * Cundo Bermúdez * Marta María Pérez Bravo * Adriano Buergo * Ariel Cabrera * Servando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas
Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas is a Cuban painter. Biography Rodríguez Cárdenas was born in 1962 in Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara, and completed his arts studies in 1983 at Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). He formed part of the René Portocarrero workshop, where he began to make a name for himself in serigraphy, drawing and painting. He became a key figure in the resurgence of criticism and of the arts movement at the time. His participation played a decisive role in the birth of the provisional group. From among the imagery created in the late 1980s, which questioned and made ironic the “revolutionary” state slogans, some of Rodríguez Cárdenas's proposals became iconic representations of his generation such as his self-portrait featuring him bare-chested, the skin painted like a brick wall, on which the words ”I am my home” are written; from his neck hangs a skeleton with a comic blurb that reads “I do not exist, only my intention”. In Rodríguez Cár ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Vizcaíno
Pedro A. Vizcaíno Martínez (born October 11, 1966, Havana, Cuba), is a Cuban-born American visual artist based in Miami, Florida. He was one of the members of Arte Calle, a Street Art group, between 1985 and 1987. He works in the mediums of painting, drawing, performance, and installation art. Early life and education Pedro Vizcaíno, known by some under nickname "cafetero," was born on October 11, 1966, in Havana. Since 1993, he has resided primarily in the Little Havana (or Pequeña Habana) neighborhood in Miami, Florida. He attended the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, where he graduated in 1981. He continued his studies at the School of Artistic Education at the “Enrique José Varona” Superior Pedagogic Institute () in 1985. Work Pedro Vizcaíno's work and cartoonish style combines references from graphic design, 1980s urban art, and illustration. to elaborate on social and political critique. According to critics, his works has been influenced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Torres Llorca
Rubén Torres Llorca (born March 3, 1957, in Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. Selected solo exhibitions * 2015 "Better Days Ahead" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida * 2012 "One of Us Can Be Wrong and Other Essays" Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, Florida. * 2010 "Figure 1 to 20" Now Contemporary Art, Wynwood, Miami, Florida. * 2009 "Los Peores Hom ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Portocarrero
René Portocarrero (born Havana, 24 February 1912; died Havana, 7 April 1985) was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements. History Portocarrero began his artistic education at the San Alejandro academy, but left early and is hence considered 'self taught'. He put on his first exhibition in 1934, at the Havana Lyceum, beginning a long and fruitful career which included a 1937 collaboration with Mariano Rodríguez and work as a 'free studies' teacher of painting and sculpture.Biography at www.cubaliteraria.cu After travels in , and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Pellón
Gina Pellón (December 26, 1926 – March 27, 2014) was a Cuban painter who lived in France. She was known for her abstract expressive paintings in strong colours, usually depicting women. She also wrote collections of poems. Life Born in Cumanayagua, Las Villas she graduated from the Academy of San Alejandro in 1954, and taught at the Velado Polytechnic Institute, until 1957. In 1959, she studied in France, and overstayed her visa, fleeing from the Cuban of , and in 1960 she made her first solo exhibition in |
Pedro Pablo Oliva
Pedro Pablo Oliva Rodríguez (Pinar del Río, Cuba, January 15, 1949) is a Cuban painter. Early life Oliva studied art from 1961 to 1964 in the Provincial School of Plastic Arts in Pinar del Río. He specialized in painting in the National School of Art of Cuba in Havana, where he graduated in 1970.''The Creation'' by Cuban artist Pedro Pablo Oliva, Arts Culture Gazette website, May 24, 2011. Career 
Since 1974, Oliva's work has been presented at individual and collective exhibitions in Cuba as well as internationally. His works can be seen at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, National Museum of Fine ...
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Manuel Mendive
Manuel Mendive Hoyos (born December 15 in 1944) is an Afro-Cuban artist. Biography Mendive was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944. His family practiced La Regla de Ocha, or Santería. A mulatto, he cherishes his Yoruba roots from the West coast of Africa. In 1963, he graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Plastic Arts, Havana. Awards He has received numerous awards for his art within exhibitions in Cuba and in Europe. Since the beginning of his artistic career, he has participated in many group and solo art exhibits. His first one-man show was held at the Center of Art in Havana, in 1964.O'Neill, Rosemary. "Biographies," Art in Latin America, Dawn Ades. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989: 350. In 1968, he was awarded with the Adam Montparnasse prize for his painting exhibit at the Salon de Mai, in Paris, and third prize at the Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, in Havana. Additional noteworthy awards Mendive has received include the Alejo Carpentier Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez
Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez (born April 1963) is a Cuban artist. Her main disciplines are painting, installations and photography. She studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana, Cuba. In 1988 she graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana. During the 1980s she was member of the group ''Vinculación'' and also of the Group Puré in Havana, Cuba. Life Delgado Álvarez was born in April 1963 in Havana, Cuba. Individual exhibitions Two of her most important exhibitions were in 1989 ''"Dentro del Labio"''. Proyecto Castillo de la Fuerza, Havana and at the next year ''"La caja de los sueños"''. Galería Nina Menocal, México. Collective exhibitions She has featured in many collective exhibitions, among them ''"El ISA Saluda la Bienal"''. First Havana Biennial Bienal de La Habana, 1984. Galería L, Havana, at the same time she was included in ''"Grupo Vinculación"'' Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). Other important exhibition was ''"K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Corrales Forno
Raúl Corrales Fornos (January 29, 1925 – April 15, 2006) was a Cuban photographer. Since 1961 he was member of the Photography Section of the Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC). Early life Corrales was born to a poor family in Ciego de Ávila, in rural Cuba and moved to Havana as a child. He worked as a newspaper vendor, a shoeshine boy and a janitor, but his hobby of photography grew more and more serious. Politics In the 1950s Corrales joined the Partido Socialista Popular (Cuba), Partido Socialista Popular and worked as a photographer for the Party's newspaper. He specialized in going to the remote parts of Cuba to photograph the everyday lives of poor peasants and workers. During a police raid in the late 1950s, almost all of Corrales photographic work was destroyed. After the Cuban Revolution, Revolution of 1959 against the Batista Government, Raúl Corrales joined the Communist Party of Cuba. He was one of Fidel Castro's official photographers for many yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Consuegra
Hugo Consuegra (born Hugo Consuegra Sosa October 26, 1929 in Havana, Cuba – January 24th 2003 in New York City, New York) was a Cuban-born artist and architect who, in 1953, became one of the founding members of Los Once (The Eleven), a group of young abstract expressionist artists which included the core members Guido Llinás, Raul Martinez, Tomás Oliva and Antonio Vidal. The group broke away from the representational style prevalent at the time in Cuba and produced its largest volume of work between 1953 and 1955. Consuegra and four of the original 11 continued to exhibit in what became known as the post-revolutionary avant-garde movement in Cuba. Consuegra was also a Professor of Art History at Havana University’s School of Architecture (1960–5). His first solo exhibition was held in 1953 at the Lyceum in Havana. As part of Los Once (The Eleven), Consuegra was instrumental in introducing abstract expressionism to Cuba. His award-winning artwork was widely exhibited in Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Castro
Humberto Jesús Castro García (born July 9, 1957) is a Cuban painter. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. In 1980 he became part of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), Havana, and from 1982 until 1985 he was also member of the ''Equipo de Creación Colectiva Hexágono'', Havana. Individual exhibitions '"Hallazgos"', in 1980, was his first individual exhibition and it took place at Teatro Mella, Havana, Cuba. In 1988 ''"Three Cuban Artists"'' in Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art/Forest City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Three years after this experience in North America ''"Humberto Castro. Jeune Peinture"'', Grand Palais, Paris, France. In 1993 ''"Humberto Castro. L'envol d'Icare"''. Le Monde de L'Art, Paris, France and Art 93 Chicago. The New Pier Show, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 1995 ''"Le Radeau d'Ulyses"''. Le Monde de L'Art, París, France and ''"Humberto Castro. Nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
