By David Schmidt
From December 3 - 7, Scope returns to Miami for a seventh consecutive year. Considered the ideal platform for promoting the latest developments in the contemporary art scene, Scope has become an efficient exhibition and sales mechanism able to organize successful events in: New York, London, Basel, Hampton and Miami.
This year it has [...]
By Janet Batet
The fall of the Socialist block signified a radical change in contemporary culture. The pretexts underlying its credos collapsed before our very eyes. The distinctly polarized world we were accustomed to made way for a new era. The fundamental axes around which we had built our dreams, our ambitions, our cosmogonies and our [...]
By Raisa Clavijo
The culture of the Caribbean invariably bears the mark of mixed races and cultural syncretism dating back to the 16th Century. It is impossible to analyze the Cuban and Caribbean scene from a socio-cultural point of view without considering the influence of Africa. (1)
The anthropologist and ethnologist, Fernando Ortiz, in his Contrapunteo cubano [...]
“Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most?
Him who breaketh up their tables of values,
the breaker, the lawbreaker:
- he, however, is the creator.”
Federic Nietzche. Thus spoke Saratustra.
By Janet Batet
Martin Kippenberger is a controversial, uninhibited, eccentric figure with an impressive level of energy and synergy. Creator, project developer and social agitator, his work cannot [...]
By Claire Breukel
The Rubell Family Collection museum remains one of the top attractions during Art Basel in Miami. I use the word museum, as the collection of work, the first of which was acquired in 1964, is of the stature of most world-class museums. That would make the acquisitions committee a family one, comprised of [...]
By Bryan Barcena
It can be argued that the figurative weight of the Miami art world falls squarely on the shoulders of the soon-to-be-constructed Museum Park Complex in downtown Miami. This stunningly-designed Herzog & de Meuron edifice hopes to provide residents with the kind of cultural institution that the city has been deprived of for so [...]
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Carlos Estévez is a Cuban-born, Miami-based artist who has been active since the beginning of the nineties. Since his solo exhibition “A través del Universo” (Through the Universe) in 1992 at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, in Havana, he has become part of a group of the more promising artists [...]
CIRCA PR, the premier Caribbean and Central American international art fair will celebrate its fourth edition from April 17 - 20, 2009, at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan. Since its inception in 2006, CIRCA PR has become an important stop within the annual international contemporary art itinerary, offering a platform for promoting [...]
By Janet Batet
If we had to define our contemporary culture, quickly and without giving it much thought; words, such as, interactivity, zapping, speed, play, simulation, would immediately emerge. Since the beginning of the 90s, the appearance and accelerated development of what is known as “new technology” has altered our perception, our interaction and, of course, [...]
By Fernando Toledo
Standing before the work of Claudia Hakim, I cannot help but think of the great constructivists of the 20th Century, such as Kasimir Malevitch, who with similar techniques and materials proposed “the suprematism of nonobjectivity,” Naum Gabo with his heads and subsequent kinetic developments, and the British artist, Victor Pasmore, with his magnificent [...]
