Visual Arts

Visual Arts

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.

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

Prensa Latina

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.