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Collaterals to Come to a Close
09June
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Collaterals to Come to a Close

August 12 will see the end of the collateral exhibitions of Cuban art at San Carlos de La Cabaña, within the framework of Havana’s Eleventh Biennial. We’ve been positively surprised by most of what has been showcased, but some exhibitions brought about questions among both common and expert viewers: was it all about market-targeting artworks? Were they betting on the renovation or sticking to the “secure”? A very positive element: the “visual competition” between the young and the established undoubtedly made people that visited La Cabaña hall after hall think.

 

We were shocked by a recent piece of news. G-2 hall, where Lorena Gutierrez’s was being exhibited, caught fire due to an electric problem.

 

Lorena graduated with this excellent piece, a sort of environment or scenography, at the Higher Institute of Art. The psychedelic atmosphere created by the reflections of the luminary-cage that was hanging from the ceiling and the holographic material that covered the walls and floor, conspired in the creation of an experience in which the confinement or conviction were conceptually moved from the structure that usually symbolizes it, to the space. But a ludic interaction could also come out of it. And that was what happened with many of the people that visited La Cabaña through May 24. (Check: Yainet Rodriguez, La condena del condenado)

 

The artist has asked her friends and colleagues to give her all of the informal documentation on Condenado (pictures or videos), because she is interested in revisiting the piece from other points of view. We’ll join that effort. The information will be received at studio_lorenagutierrez@yahoo.es.