2013 “Guy Perez Cisneros” Curatorship and Art Critic Awards Announced in Cuba

On Wednesday September 25^th, the National Council of Fine Arts announced the winners of Guy Perez Art Critic Award and Curatorship Award for 2013. During the awards ceremony, held at Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, the attendees paid tribute to the most outstanding works done by art critics and curators from all over the island between May 1^st, 2012 and April 30, 2013. Texts and curatorial projects shown within the framework of Havana’s 11^th Biennale were also included.

Out of the works received in this edition of Guy Perez Cisneros Art Critic Award, the jury decided to recognize Sandra Sosa, for her review Alexandre Arrechea en Park Avenue, taking into account the clarity and powers of synthesis applied to analyze such a suggestive creative process of formal integration as the one that characterizes Alexandre Arrechea’s artistic proposals. In terms of essay, the award went to El cartel-simulacro de R10: mas que una cuestion de actitud, by Hamlet Fernandez, for the transcendence of the matter tackled within the present context: the relation between art and design in the work of artist R10. This text is an efficient exercise of judgment that shows formal and content values included in the work of this acclaimed designer.

Among the exhibitions competing for the Curatorship Award, Jose Manuel Noceda was honored for Wifredo Lam: entre la pintura y el grabado in the solo show section. It gathers artworks created between 1941 and 1976 and, without being a retrospective, shows crucial moments in the career of the artist by reviewing unknown pieces. As for collective exhibition, Nelson Herrera Ysla stood out with Señales de vida. Arquitectura y diseño cubanos y contemporaneos. This display touches a sore spot in terms of problems, utopias and possible solutions of architecture from an unprejudiced approach, by showing different perspectives of our daily life.

The members of the jury also recognized, with a Mention, a group of authors that shouldn’t be passed over. They are: Anaeli Ibarra, for review; Sandra Sosa, essay; Caridad Blanco, solo show; and Onedys Calvo, Nehela Hechevarria and Cristina Figueroa Vives, collective exhibition.

Source: Press release