Alexandre Arrechea’s exhibition: another collateral at the 12th Havana Biennial

By: Adalys Pérez

Alexandre Arrechea’s art exhibition recreates at its fullest the period lived by the artist. The exhibition is already opened to the public as part of the collateral program of the 12th Havana Biennial at the National Museum of Fine Arts (in Spanish, MNBA), whom this cultural institution has dedicated other seven temporary exhibitions, most of them, from Cuban authors.

This is the first time Arrechea exhibits a personal collection at the MNBA, as he has previously done it along with Los Carpinteros, a group he worked with for twelve years, until 2003 when he decided to work alone.

As said by the artist himself, this new project, especially conceived for this occasion, might be considered a summary of his previous work, mainly, as regards to the use of different media; at a time it marks the beginning of a new age.

In this regard, we may see a change in his interest for exploring architectural spaces toward a limited subjectivity, expressed through the intimate perspective of reflection from which he observes the panorama surrounding him, searching to apprehend all those edges of the urban plot which have not yet been unveiled.

Six works that talk among them, which have demanded from him an unusual physical effort, make up this exhibition: two large-format watercolors, a video-projection, a piece of wood, a tapestry—a technique he develops for the first time—and a huge 25-meter high mural on the wall of the temporary art gallery.

El mapa del silencio art exhibition, curated by Corina Matamoros, a specialist at the MNBA, will remain open until upcoming October at the Cuban Art Building.

Source: Cubarte