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artists & participants
Juan Carlos Alom,
Tania Bruguera,
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons,
Javier Castro,
Celia-Yunior,
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo,
Angel Delgado,
Humberto Diaz,
Carlos Garaicoa,
Luis Garciga,
Luis Gomez Armenteros,
Antonio Gomez Margolles,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Kcho,
Tony Labat,
Ernesto Leal,
Los Carpinteros,
Meira Marrero,
Carlos Martiel,
Ana Mendieta,
Ricardo Miguel Hernandez,
Reinier Nande,
Glexis Novoa,
Marta Maria Perez Bravo,
Eduardo Ponjuan,
Wilfredo Prieto,
Grethell Rasua,
Rene Francisco Rodriguez,
Lazaro Saavedra,
Jose Toirac,
Tonel
curators
press release
The PAC in Milan explores foreign cultures through contemporary art, drawing for the 2016 a guideline on Cuban art, both inside and outside the island, incorporating artists from different generations active from the 1970s onwards.
Tatuare La Storia (Tattooing History) means leaving a mark on a shared identity of Cuba, the metaphor itself for the meeting of cultures flowing into a Creole and tropical horizon, a "mirage" of an utopian but intrinsically contradictory world. Each artist at the PAC exhibition will be a part of the journey towards Cuba, with its magnificence and its difficulties, its sound and furor, its cultural, linguistic and mythical issues, its ideological differences.
Starting from the historical performative nature of contemporary Cuban art, the exhibition will present a large selection of works and installations—some of them conceived for the PAC—of the most representative Cuban artists and the most up-and-coming artists of the new generation, a section dedicated to Lázaro Saavedra (National Prize of Plastic Arts 2014) and a tribute to the two most influential Cuban artists, Ana Mendieta and Félix González-Torres. The exhibition will extend into MUDEC, the Museum of Cultures in Milan, with a site-specific installation by the artist Eduardo Ponjuán (National Prize of Plastic Arts 2013).
Artists: Juan Carlos Alom, Tania Bruguera, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Javier Castro, Celia-Yunior, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Ángel Delgado, Humberto Díaz, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gárciga, Luis Gómez Armenteros, Antonio Gómez Margolles, Félix González-Torres, Ricardo Miguel Hernández, Kcho, Tony Labat, Ernesto Leal, Los Carpinteros, Meira Marrero and José Toirac, Carlos Martiel, Ana Mendieta, Reinier Nande, Glexis Novoa, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Eduardo Ponjuán, Wilfredo Prieto, Grethell Rasúa, René Francisco Rodriguez, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel
The catalogue, published by Silvana Editoriale, will contain texts by the three curators and the artist and critic Tonel, in addition to a rich iconography.