Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the exiled Cuban author, once described Cuba as an island full of ambiguities. It is a country hovering between social utopia and economical isolation, nursing a love-hate relationship to the American dream.
Cuba -
Maps of Desire demonstrates how universal topics of contemporary social relevance are taken up and reflected on by artists in the specifically Cuban situation. Thus the exhibition offers a completely different perspective on international art. The artistic outlooks presented here are characterised by the typical Cuban ambivalence pervaded by questions of identity, freedom, borders, ideology and dreaming, questions which are condensed into the common theme of
desire.
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artists:
Eduardo Aparicio; Kcho; Manuel Pińa; Abigaíl González; Ernesto
Pujol; Marta María Pérez Bravo; Tania Bruguera; Ana Mendieta; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Carlos
Garaicoa
curators: Eugenio Valdés Figueroa (Havanna), Gerald Matt (Wien) |
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