Puzzle, Emerging Cuban Artthe event that the Taller Gorría Gallery has organized since 2019, has held its fifth edition since last September 26, consolidating itself as one of the few events on the island dedicated to promoting and making visible young talent in the visual arts.
On this occasion, its program extends until November 8, and among its particularities is the participation of creators from various areas of the country. For the first time, artists from other nations appeared at its call.
Its vision is not only to exhibit, but to approach young creation from a critical perspective and offer training to its participants. Therefore, Puzzle includes four exhibitions, four workshops and studio visits.
Thirty creators participate in this fifth edition of the event that is possible thanks to the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Cuba.
“The project proposes a journey through contemporary practices that dialogue with the Cuban context from experimentation, collaboration and critical thinking,” states a press release.
Currently the Taller Gorría Gallery hosts the second exhibition of Puzzleand announces that its third exhibition will be inaugurated on October 24, and the last of the exhibitions on November 6.
“Each edition has been projected on the new imaginaries and agendas that define the interests of a generation that has been hardened very early in an environment of pure stress; of prevailing scarcity, political hostility, social segregation, blackouts, consummated nihilism… This, the fifth installment, continues the path founded as an act of confirmation,” writes Jorge Peré in the curatorial text of the event.
Puzzle It gives a space to all the perspectives that artists address, from ways of speaking, understanding and feeling their reality, to all the techniques and artistic expressions that today come together in the broad universe of the visual arts.
The quote is defined as “a platform that does not seek to represent a generation, but to amplify its voices. Art here is not explained, it is lived. And each piece is an open question to the Cuban context, to its fractures and possibilities.”
