Visual Arts

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Alcides Pérez Toledo, Continuous Reinvention

By Beatriz Laffita, Photos: Courtesy of artist

Over many years Alcides Pérez Toledo has made engraving his expressive vehicle par excellence. His confessed passion for etching rests on the many-faceted possibilities of that medium and there isn’t a mystery of the universe that is unknown to him if it has to do with presses, moulds or engraver’s chisels.

Tomás Núñez, Sculpting Paintings

By Beatriz Laffita, Photos: courtesy of artist

To define Tomás Núñez as a sculptor would be to disregard a big part of his creative process. While some of his work definitely classifies as sculpture, other pieces resist definition within established categories. If they had to be classified, the most reasonable description might be to call them works that aim to conquer space.

The Continuous Meditations, on Landscape of Rafael Villares

By Beatriz Laffita

Taking a succinct walk through the history of art or more specifically the history of painting we can see that landscape has passed through various chapters in which its importance to artists has waxed and waned. For centuries it was seen as a mere backdrop, a view ripped to shreds by the genius of true masters who in certain works, without perhaps even meaning to propose it, forged a glorious path that would be tread in the nineteenth century by the Romantics, the Impressionists and the post-Impressionists who brought out the virtues of landscape as both an experiment in form and a channel for the restless angst of the human soul.

Cuban Artists Delighted with New CubaPlus Art Catalogue

By Arianna Battini, Director, Puntozero International Srl. Photos: José Adrián Wilson and Oscar L. Benítez

Cuban artists featured in the Contemporary Art Catalogue produced by CubaPlus Magazine are delighted to have a high quality resource for promoting their work.

Nocturnal, design - art

By Edel Rodríguez (Mola), Photos: Courtesy of artist

Nocturnal is just the name we gave to something that had already been growing organically for quite a time before it got its label. More than a studio, it’s a space for exchange between friends. We are Michele m. Hollands, Giselle Monzón, Edel Rodríguez (Mola), Nelson Ponce and Raúl Valdés (Raupa). Each of us Nocturnals has our own life in the world of design.

Pauyet Project: Two DECADES

Yohany Aguilera Jiménez, Especialista de Imagen y Desarrollo, Filial Ciego de Ávila

The Pauyet project was first founded in 1998 at a time when cutlery was scarce on the market, to help meet demand.

Abstraction in expression

By Roxana Consuegra

On Línea in Vedado, one of Havana's arterial avenues, at its intersection with another main street called Paseo lies a space dedicated to young Cuban art, a conceptual crossroads where the paths of some of the country's most contemporary artists converge.

Alejandro Alfonso, Seeing Through Other Eyes

By Beatriz Laffita

Alejandro Alfonso is a young photographer who fell into the art like may others in his profession out of enjoyment, or more precisely out of an incessant need to scrutinize his surroundings.

Santos Toledo, The art of living in design

By Ana María Ruiz, Photos: Courtesy of artist and Vladimir Molina

“From the streets to the academy” just about sums up the career of Cuban designer Santos Toledo, whose first work was a sales sign at a bodega (corner store) and who is today an important figure on the Cuban arts scene.

A ode for Osvaldo

By Roxana Consuegra Photos courtesy of artist

Incense burning, plumes of smoke unfurling, a cello picks out notes of a baroque melody. This is the distinctive studio of acclaimed Cuban jeweller Osvaldo Castilla Romero. A space where universal energies unite with the spirit of the soul to conceive an art all of its own, bringing forth forms created from the most diverse of materials. Wood, stone, metals, leathers, seeds, even acrylics can be discerned among the elements, treated equally and brought together to create a fusion of body and art. The jeweller argues that “jewellery is for wearing” and this is the basis of his work: pieces for everyday use that transcend the limits of a display cabinet.

May Reguera, Beyond the Curtain

By Wina Acosta

Young Cuban actor and photographer May Reguera’s instant images display the emotion that her work as an actor brings her. She thinks as she picks up the camera, looking at the world through her lens and ultimately capturing a unique and unrepeatable moment, a reflection of her intellectual and spiritual evolution.

Revisiting Hersey

By Julia Portela Ponce de León

The town of Hershey, to the east of Havana, has once again become a focus for Cuban photographer Alfredo Sarabia’s creative process. His relationship with this space began in 2013 when he shot his Model Town (Pueblo Modelo) series. These images told the story of a community founded by US industrialist and philanthropist Milton Hershey, who brought his concept of a model town to Cuba having previously founded one in Pennsylvania in the US.

Alfredo Sarabia, Spontaneity Within Marvellous Reality

By Yanisbel Peña Pérez

For Cuban photographer Alfredo Sarabia telling stories through the lens is a passion, a way to relate and understand reality in order to then show it from a different point of view.

Roberto Chile, The Duality of Being

By Daimarelys Pérez

Prolific communicator Roberto Chile uses many of his talents to express emotions and to feel that life is not just a journey where we play to win or to lose, where there are no half-way houses, there’s only success or failure. “By now I’ve asked myself so many times in my life the question of who we are and where we come from.” This was one of the statements that the artist chose to begin the conversation.

High Tension Art

By Viviana Díaz Frías

Since time immemorial, art has served to question human beings and their reality. This premise still remains today and it is used by many artists to convey their opinions on the society they live in.