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Grabado cubano ‘80 ‘90 presents 50 prints belonging to the Wifredo Lam Center Collection, of Cuban artists José Julián Aguilera, Ángel Alfaro Echevarría, Abel Barroso, Pablo Borges, Yamilis Brito, Luis Cabrera, Tamara Campo, José M. Contino, Salvador Corratgé, Antonio Espinosa, Moisés Finalé, Gilberto Frómeta, Isabel Gimeno, Julio Girona, Nicolás Lara, Israel León, Isolina Limonta, Aldo Menéndez, Ibrahim Miranda, Isary Paulet, Enrique Pérez Triana, Pablo Quert, Ángel M. Ramírez, Alexander Richardm, Juan Carlos Rivero, Ángel Rivero Sierra, Elio Rodríguez, Carlos A. Rodríguez Cárdenas, Agustín Rolando Rojas, Leandro Soto, Israel Tamayo, Rubén Torres Llorca, Zenén Vizcaíno and Rafael Zarza. AUG 2017 6 lahabana. com magazine Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam Biblioteca Pública Rubén Through August 26 Martínez Villena Throughout August Valor de uso has proposed to the participating artists that they work their pieces with instruments that at the ¡Guernica de Picasso, 80 años! exhibits end of the exhibition can recover their original function, the posters selected as finalists in the which implies the collaboration of the workers of the competition of the same name. Center in the conformation of the exhibition. Casa Víctor Hugo August 15-September 15 TODAS LAS COSAS VISIBLES ESCONDEN COSAS VISIBLES Exhibition by Cuban artist Alejandro Alexis García Núñez, pays homage to the Belgian surrealist artist René Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam Magritte. Prior to the exhibition, Through August 26 the art gallery has organized a performance on August 15, at 5pm, La anatomía del cero, by Spanish artist Jaime de Lara, while the exhibition proper will open exhibits pieces that, according to the artist, “thanks on August 18, at 6pm. On August to fiction, absurdity and rhetoric, as if they were 21, at 2pm, the artist will offer a tour mathematical operations or equations, result in the through his exhibition and a discussion same product. Thanks to this, they can be understood as on the life of Magritte. anatomies of Zero. And Zero as a concept of infinite forms.”. AUG 2017 7 lahabana. com magazine Centro Hispano Americano de Cultura Throughout August LA ESTAMPA CONTEMPORÁNEA EN LA COLECCIÓN ARTE DE NUESTRA AMÉRICA HAYDÉE SANTAMARÍA DE CASA DE LAS AMÉRICAS, is a collection of works by young engravers who exhibit a variety of techniques and content, and richness in their work, as well as a continuity of the tradition of Latin American printing. Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño August 2-31 ESTACIÓN CUBA, group show of works by artists Carlos René Aguilera, Abiney Barrios, Ariel Broche, Jamnael Casanova, Yasiel Elizagaray, Yeremy Guerra, Agustín Jiménez, Daniel Madruga, Sergio Marrero, Tania Mesa, Jesús Agustín Rebull, Yoxi Velázquez and Manuel “Manolo” Vidal. Factoría Habana Throughout August ÍNDICE DE IMÁGENES, by José Manuel Mesía, who using painting and installation and through a process marked by the study of episodes of the Cuban wars of independence, examines the mechanisms of rewriting history, the apocryphal, the construction of imaginaries and the myths that are created around facts AUG 2017 8 lahabana. com magazine Galería Casa 8 Centro de Desarrollo de las Through August 27 Artes Visuales Through August 7 SOLO SHOW by Moisés Acosta. This creator of humidors, now painter, brings together works of surreal CAÍDA LIBRE, solo show of paintings atmosphere populated by strange anthropomorphic and drawings of Havana landscapes beings. by Katarzina Badach, a Polish painter who lives and works in Havana and Berlin. Through August 27 SUDORACIONES, solo show of paintings by Cristóbal Herrera. GROUP SHOW of works that belong to the catalogue of the gallery of the Center for the Development of Visual Arts. Galería Collage Habana Galería Galiano Through August 13 Through August 10 CUARTA DIMENSIÓN exhibits works by artists from GROUP SHOW exhibits paintings, the province of Ciego de Ávila, who seek to express photographs, prints, objects and concerns and aesthetics from different points of sculptures belonging to the Galería views coming from the “periphery,” which may be the Galiano collection. province, but also the country itself in relation to the major “legitimizing” art centers. AUG 2017 9 lahabana. com magazine Galería Orígenes Fábrica de Arte Cubano Through August Through August 24 KRAKEN Kraken is artist Ibrahim Miranda’s proposal, DISEÑO DE AUTOR, works by Abel who for the critic Orlando Hernandez “is probably the Camejo, Carlos Joel y Marango. only major mythical monster in Cuban art, which is full of domestic (or domesticated) animals and brightly Through August 27 colored fish swimming in their fishbowls. This is about the inhabitant of the oceanic darkness, a legitimate son PUNTO Y LÍNEA SOBRE EL PLANO, of Triton, a Kraken, the gigantic squid of Norwegian works by Jorge Gody, Víctor M. mythology that every so often appears on the surface Gómez, Josignacio, Donis Llago, snorting and vomiting ink and blood to show us…the Antoine Mena, Osy Milián, Onay landscape that is under the luminous and confused Rosquet, Gabriel Sánchez Toledo and surface of this island that we inhabit, to our joy or terror, Nelson Villalobo to us, the drowned and the survivors. Through September 30 MAURICE RENOMA, an exhibition showing an unknown stage design by the artist in the course of his photographic experience and installations created on site with salvaged materials. AUG 2017 10 lahabana. com magazine Galería Servando Cabrera Through August 20 OBRA EN PROCESO, by Yornel Martínez, is an exhibition of a conceptual nature, made up by an installation, in the form of a scale model, that occupies the gallery’s space. Galería Villa Manuela Throughout August SOLO SHOW by avileño Elías Henoc Permut, an artist from Ciego de Avila, who has said of his art: I am a self-taught artist…. When I was 15, I received a course on engraving taught by Miguel Chamorro. Since then, I have not stopped working and studying, so I have accumulated knowledge and a large number of icons and symbols that I reconstruct to give them a new meaning in my paintings.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Edificio de Arte Cubano Through September RITA LONGA. CENTENARIO celebrates 105 years of the birth of one of the great figures of Cuban sculpture. Longa assumed the codes of modernity without giving up the fluid communication with the recipient. She is the author of emblematic pieces such as the Family Group at the entrance of the Zoo in Nuevo Vedado, the Virgen del Camino, the Ballerina at Tropicana and the Taino Village within the Guamá tourist center, in Zapata Swamps. The exhibition includes 29 pieces, from the first one she created to the one she completed on the year of her death. AUG 2017 11 lahabana. com magazine Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Edificio de Arte Cubano Through October 23 SIN MÁSCARAS. ARTE AFROCUBANO CONTEMPORÁNEO. WITHOUT MASKS: CONTEMPORARY AFRO-CUBAN ART, probably the National Museum of Fine Arts exhibition of the year, is made up of works from the Von Christierson Collection (Watch Hill Foundation, London). The 149 pieces by 40 Cuban artists from the past 60 years include paintings on canvas and wood, watercolors, glass and enamel on aluminum foil, drawings, engravings, collages, patchwork, bronze and iron sculptures, soft sculptures, wooden sculptures, photographs, installations, video installation and video art. The exhibition El último cabildo de