Visual Arts

Visual Arts

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.

FIGHTER humanity reality

The spirit of everyday Cuban life is at the centre of up and coming Cuban hairstylist Dorian Carbonell’s new collection, part of the salon project Donde Dorian (Dorian’s Place), that seeks to continue making sense of the complexity of human beings.

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.

Plastic art artists meet up at Cuba with silk screen printing technique

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Plastic art artists meet up with their works in Cuba to attend to the silk printing technique’s Workshop, Rene Portocarrero, as well as to pay tribute to this renewed painter, specialists expressed.

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.

Niels Reyes Captivated by Painting

By Mercy Ramos

Painting is young Cuban artist Niels Reyes’ preferred form of expression because from the moment he started his studies at Cuba’s Instituto Superior de Arte—the country’s top higher education arts institute—painting captivated him.

Sculpture of Paul McCartney attracts visitors in Santiago de Cuba

By Martha Cabrales Arias

Scores of visitors to the restaurant next to the San Pedro de la Roca del Morro Castle succumb in to temptation of taken a photo close together the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney who visited this place 18 years ago.

Santiago de Cuba continues covering in murals regarding XIII InterUs

By Martha Cabrales Arias

Artists from Cuba and the other six countries meet in this city during the XIII Mural Painting International Meeting, InterUs, that will be carry out up to January 27.

Eduardo Roca, Choco received Prize of Plastic Arts Cuba 2017

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The Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca, alias Choco, received the National Prize of Plastic Arts 2017 for his valuable contribution to the development of the visual arts in this Caribbean country.

Prize giving ceremony celebrated in the International Craft Fair 2017

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The prize giving ceremony to the best products, furniture, stand and design tinged the penultimate day of the XXI International Craft Fair FIART 2017, a meeting that will run until on Sunday in Havana.