Known for his peculiar urban renderings as representations of symbols of power, Gustavo Acosta (Havana, 1958) has based his work on the social and political aspects that architecture represents. He talked to ARTPULSE about what has influenced him through the years, how he dissects his surroundings with an almost cinematographic eye, and how [...]
Meira Marrero (Havana, 1969) and José Angel Toirac (Guantánamo, 1966) (M&T) have been working together for a couple of decades. They rely on controversial historic material and create their works from a discourse similar to the codes of official historiography. Their works feature plenty of symbols and citations that refer to specific moments [...]
Pan American Art Projects - Miami
Curated by Irina Leyva-Pérez
By Raisa Clavijo
“Urbanitas” assembled the work of ten artists who have approached the theme of the city from different perspectives. The exhibition included works by Gustavo Acosta, Luis Cruz Azaceta, José Manuel Fors, Tony Berlant, Luis Enrique Camejo, Carlos Estévez, Santiago Porter, Rogelio López Marín (Gory), Magnus [...]
Pan American Art Projects - Miami
Curated by Abelardo Mena
The Trojan Horse: Displacement and Resilience of the Uprooted Nation
By Joaquín Badajoz
The history of humankind sometimes seem to be, without diminishing other complex axioms and principles of civilization, the tale of the agonic paradox between sedentariness and migration. The parallel narratives that, from one point of [...]
Pan American Art Projects - Miami
La possibilité de vivre commence dans le regard de l’autre.
Houellebecq
By Janet Batet
We should start off by admitting that the old identity-alterity controversy is merely an eccentric illusion opportunely adopted in the past by post-colonial nationalistic politics, in which the individual was labeled as an integral part of a geographically localizable group, [...]
Pan American Art Projects
March 13 - April 17, 2010
Pan American Art Projects has brought together two artists with a minimal aesthetic. Carolina Sardi and Ted Larsen come from different traditions but share a like-minded approach to their art. Each offer understated metal sculptures in a joint exhibition at the gallery from March 13 - April [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Big Bang, the Cristina Lucas video installation, which is currently being shown at the Pan American Art Projects in Miami, could be read from its allusions to some landmarks taken from Art History tradition. I will mention three of these images. Since the projection is unusually placed on the ceiling of the [...]
Primary Colors
May 30 - July 4, 2009
Las Vanguardias Cubanas
July 11 - August 13, 2009
Gustavo Acosta & Carlos González
September 5 - October 3, 2009
Pan American Art Projects opens the summer with the show “Primary Colors “(May 30 - July 4). This is a collective exhibition presenting the works of Argentineans, Carolina Sardi and Hernan Dompe; Cubans, [...]
Carlos Estévez - The Mystery of Migrations
Project Room: Gory and Adrian / Diptychs: One Lens, Two Visions
April 11 - May 23, 2009
Opening April 11, 2009 6-9 pm
“The Mystery of Migrations” is the title of Carlos Estévez’s new solo exhibition of paintings. As the title indicates, Carlos is exploring the process of migrations, philosophically, existentially and [...]
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
If we look back at Gustavo’s oeuvre over a span of twenty years, we can easily recognize that he has been interested in social expressions of power. In the 1980s, when his work started receiving attention, he was using metaphors of Roman architecture as a reference to the Cuban social system. The dark, [...]
