#Cuban art

[thunderstruck9]

Agustín Fernández (Cuban, 1928-2006), Untitled, c.1960-61. Oil on canvas, 80 1/2 x 75 3/4 in.

[neshamama]

enrique martínez celaya, "the relic and the pure," 2013-2015, oil and wax on canvass

[weepingwidar]

Julia Garcia (Cuban-American, 1992) - The Ritual (2024)

[random-brushstrokes]

Mario Carreño - La lavandera (1941)

[jareckiworld]

Carlos Estévez — Carousel City  (oil and watercolor pencil on canvas, 2022)

[caribbeanart]

The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean

On view: September 4 through December 14, 2024

"Illuminating the often-overlooked Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, 27 artists across 14 countries address notions of visibility and invisibility, spirituality, and archiving across various media. Named after a 1975 work by Japanese-Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura, The Appearance primarily focuses on artwork created from 1940 onwards." [x]

[angergrls]

OSPAAAL (The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America) posters

OSPAAAL was a cuban political movement born after the Tricontinental Conference, in January of 1966

[mote-historie]

Conrado Walter Massaguer (Conrado W. Massaguer, Conrado Massaguer, C. W. Massaguer, Massaguer), Travel Illustration for the Cover of Social Magazine, Cuba, 1926.

Massaguer (Cuban, 1889-1965) was Art Director of the magazine Social (founded in 1916), he had many of his caricatures published in American magazines (Life, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair) and designed artwork for Cuba's pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. (x)

Photo: Halloween HJB

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re highlighting a couple of artists’ book selections from our collection of Ediciones Vigía publications: Ritual de Sobrevida by Natalia Bolívar, and Cuento para un Hombre que Lloró Tapándose el Rostro by Digdora Alonso. Ritual de Sobrevida (translation: Survival Ritual) was edited by Laura Ruiz, translated by Guadalupe Vento, and designed with drawings by Rolando Estévez Jordán. It was published by Ediciones Vigía in Mantanzas, Cuba in 2011. Cuento para un Hombre que Lloró Tapándose el Rostro (translation: A story about a man who cried, covering his face) was edited by Gladys Mederos and designed with drawings by Rolando Estévez Jordán. It was published by Ediciones Vigía in a limited edition of 200 copies in Matanzas in 2000. Both of these works are highly interactive & sculptural, and are best experienced in person!

Ediciones Vigía (translation: Watchtower Editions) is an independent publisher located in Matanzas, Cuba that was co-founded by artist Rolando Estévez Jordán and poet Alfredo Zaldívar in 1985 as a gathering place for artists and writers to commune. Though their initial print ventures were limited to broadside flyers promoting meetings, they soon evolved into a book publishing house.

Working collaboratively, the artists, writers, and community volunteers of Ediciones Vigía employ repurposed materials such as butcher paper, yarn, fabric, leaves, dried flowers, and tin foil to create unique handmade editions in runs of 200 or less. While the material limitations of the publishing house do echo the economic limitations of everyday life in Cuba, Estévez has asserted that the handmade aesthetic of their publications was not chosen strictly "out of material need or because there existed no other possibilities…. Vigía emerges out of aesthetic necessities."

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[fashionlandscapeblog]

Manuel Carbonell Pygmalion and Galatea, 1963

[thunderstruck9]

Emilio Sánchez (Cuban/American, 1921-1999), Untitled (A Shuttered Window in La Mansión in Matanzas). Oil on canvas, 48 x 35 7/8 in.

[eternaldispersal]

Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Map, 2009.

Private Collection, London, UK.

[neshamama]

tomás sánchez, "del romerillo al blanco," 1981, plaka on paper

[weepingwidar]

Julia Garcia (Cuban-American, 1992) - Top Shelf (2023)

[random-brushstrokes]

Mariano Rodriguez - El gallo pintado (1941)

[jareckiworld]

José Ramón Alejandro — Transfiguration of the Instrument of Martyrdom of Saint Catherine (acrylic on canvas, 1970)