Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Leandro Mompié and the craft of constructing forms

By Lázaro Gerardo Valdivia Herrero, Photos: Courtesy of the artist

A native of the Isle of Youth, although a Havana native by adoption, Leandro Mompié does not disguise his joy when he confesses to feeling Cuban above all, an everlasting status without which his visual work would be permeated by that meaninglessness that only forms in creations with no earthly roots.

Daylene Rodríguez Moreno: photography is an intuitive and lucid act

By María del Carmen Sánchez, Photos: Courtesy of the interviewee

This artist of the lens found her vocation in her native province of Matanzas. Her first snapshot dates back to November 11, 2006, at her great-grandmother Paulita’s house, a place she used to go as a child when her grandparents took her there on Sundays to get together and enjoy family time.

Ernesto García Peña between love and the beauty of body and soul

By María del Carmen Sánchez, Photos: Courtesy of the interviewee

The long career of this visual artist says it all: exhibitions, awards, widely recognized in Cuba, America and Europe. In his country, he has received the Distinction for National Culture and the Rubén Martínez Villena Order, awarded for the most significant artistic work, among others.

Liza Camilo: New Yorker/Cuba or Cuba/New Yorker

By Mercy Ramos / Photos: Courtesy of the interviewee

Born in New York a little over four decades ago, this outstanding photographer, daughter of Latinos, has so much love for Cuba that it is impossible to say for sure if she is a New Yorker/Cuban or vice versa.

Wifredo Lam, Cuban and universal

By Alina Veranes

Under the rubric of Wifredo Lam, a simple and immense Cuban was consecrated in the world of universal fine arts, named at birth on December 8, 1902 in Sagua la Grande,as Wilfredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla.

Photography, the art of image and light

CubaPLUS Magazine, Photos: José Tito Merino and Ferval

Photography is the technique and at the same time an art form that allows images to be captured using light, projected and captured either by fixing them on a light-sensitive medium or by converting them into electronic signals.

“Neither from here nor there: two different approaches to the same theme

CubaPLUS Magazine

“Neither from here nor there” is the title of the photo exhibition inaugurated this Friday at the Castillo Mansion, in Vedado, by lens artists Liza Camilo and Daylene Rodríguez, with the same theme: Cuba.

Eduardo Rawdríguez and Goodbye to the Rules

CubaPLUS Magazine

Goodbye to the Rules (Adiós a las Normas) is the new exhibition by Eduardo Rawdríguez that is presented in the capital's Fábrica de Arte and that constitutes a complete photographic essay where homage, memory and suggestion merge.

Successful participation of Cuban photographer in international exhibition

CubaPLUS Magazine

The exhibition of the Cuban photographer Daylene Rodríguez Moreno, in the eighth edition of the international meeting Arte en la Red, convened by the Casa de América, in Madrid, constitutes a complete success, in the opinion of organizers of the event.

Considered successful completion of the XIV Biennial of Havana

Cubaplus Magazine

The 14th Havana Biennial was considered a great success, after just over 5 months of activities with the presence of some 655 artists from 30 countries on 4 continents.

Colors of Cuba in René Portocarrero

Por Alina Veranes

One of the most brilliant exponents of the fine arts in Cuba, René Portocarrero, passed away on April 7, 1985, after a fruitful career whose scope would be impossible to review in this brief space. He was also born in the capital on February 24, 1912.