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ALLI in ARCO 2011
06February
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ALLI in ARCO 2011

Madrid: Allí, a collective exhibition gathering voices and works of prestigious Latin American artists, will be inaugurated at The Cool Pack (Hortaleza, 108. 6ª), on Friday 18 at 20:00 hours, as part of the collateral events and exhibitions program of ARCO Madrid 2011.

 

The display –commissioned by Cuban art critic and essayist Andres Isaac Santana– will count on Sebastian Beyro, Abdul Vas, Cynnthia Gonzalez, Jose Luis Serzo, German Gomez, Mateo Mate, David Garcia Torrado, Jairo Alfonso Castellanos, Carmela Garcia, Francisco Mateo, Alberto de Heras, Cecilia Paredes, Carlos Estevez, Priscilla Monge, Alejandro Falconi, Donna Colon, Adriana Arronte, Nadin Ospina, Glenda Leon.

 

Andres Isaac noted in the press release that “the objective of the exhibition is providing the possibility of a horizontal dialogue which operates –in different grade and intensity– several discursive directions, where extended criteria on centrality and hegemony are subverted in favor of an inclusive and more democratic model.

 

Allí, openly subscribes the intention of ARCO in its eagerness to recover the participation and visibility of Latin American art in the Spanish cultural context. That’s the reason why the project gets back a group of works made by artists from different countries in the area such as Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Panama, along with a group of proposals of Spanish artists in order to conceive communicative bridges, proximity links and dialogue models which are moved away from exclusive strategies as a result of power relations in traditional historiography.”

 

The exhibition will count on the presence of prestigious ArtNexus magazine, which employs Santana as correspondent.

 

Andres Isaac Santana graduated in Art History at the University of Havana. He’s the author of books Imagenes del desvio: La voz homoerotica en el arte cubano contemporaneo,J.C. Saez Editor, Santiago de Chile, 2003, and the anthology Nosotros, los mas infieles: narraciones criticas sobre el Arte Cubano 1993-2005[1]published by CENDEAC editorial label, Murcia, Spain, 2008[1], among other.

 

Nowadays, he prepares a monographic volume, putting together most of Cuban essays which study homoerotic representations and identity discourses with peripheral sign in the Island’s artistic culture, and a monographic work for Tercer Texto magazine, aimed at artistic collectives in the global age. He has been a curator for several exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. The most recent exhibitions are Alta Tension and Polimorfos Perversos (Fernando Pradilla Gallery); Naturaleza intervenida in Iniciarte, Seville, and the monographic ones with works made by Rocio Garcia, Cynthia Gonzalez and Carlos Estevez (Luz & Suarez del Villar Gallery). He has given conferences in several international contests in the US, Latin America and Spain, as well as universities such as Madrid’s.



[1] Nosotros, los más infieles: narraciones críticas sobre el Arte Cubano 1993-2005 was mentioned in the first issue if our printed magazine Arte por Excelencias (year I, no. 1, 2009, pages 41-42), by Spanish art critic and commissioner Luis Francisco Perez.