Park Avenue - New York
By Stephen Knudsen
Alexandre Arrechea’s No Limits1 is so good that I am going to skip the dance drill and stake out a conclusion right from the beginning. The 10 sculptures are unpardonably smart, humorous and beautiful-with Kantian flourishes of spirit.2
With art history’s grand narrative annulled (thanks, Arthur Danto), [...]
Cuban-born artist Alexandre Arrechea makes beautifully crafted, deceptively whimsical works about the power that our social settings and communal practices have in shaping personal identity and collective experience. Over the last few years, his career has taken him around the world, where he has exhibited works for which context is often as important [...]
Magnan Metz Gallery - New York
Looking Through Closed Eyes
By Abelardo Mena Chicuri
A ghost runs through Cuban art: It is the spirit of abstract painting. Abstractionism, which was condemned in the 1950s by Juan Marinello in his book Conversación con nuestros pintores abstractos (Universidad de Oriente, 1960), was rejected as escapist under the directives [...]
