OTRAS HISTORIAS

By Rolando Vazquez Hernandez

“If you don’t know it and you’ve never said it as I have … palo quimbombó no sirve pa´ Candela”

(popular Guaguanco)

Otras Historias… we are immersed into another body just as everybody else; we maintain the impetuous desire of saying in these times that pragmatism is a way of life. Art might disappear one day due to several reasons, one of them would be the lack of belief in itself, or because people feel that they can all create it and so the reason would be given to old Beuys and every man would be an artist, or probably Mr. Corchea wouldn’t be able to conveniently have a conversation, not even about himself, or because there’s no way to have our decadence gone unnoticed; perhaps they will be induced by art, or the Market will buy souls, plenty of ideas, but with parvo capitals.

In this recent century, the history of art remains a heavy log that sometimes must be consulted, studied and respected as well as carried. That’s when the capacity of young people and experience of the less young and healthy people are mixed so they don’t disappear, and these young people learn everything, either from the left or the right, but the important thing is that it contributes to their progress as future creators of this unflagging nation.

Here’s Otras Historias, stripped of leverage-seeking meretriciousness, or rediscovering the high-temperature potion, but most of all, at least sincere with ourselves, always looking inside.

(Otras historias, Cascarilla Project’s collective exhibition, Provincial Center of Fine Arts and Design, Havana, July-August, 2011)