The exhibition “I see islands”, with works by fifty Cuban artists, inaugurated yesterday week in Madrid, wants to bring the art of the island closer to Spain and explain the variety of creators and techniques that are mixed in their proposals.
Taking advantage of the International Fair of Contemporary Art (ARC), which begins tomorrow in the Spanish capital, “I see islands” plays with the idea of Cuba as an island but also “with the interior island that we all have,” according to what he told EFE Ludmila López Domínguez, visual artist and curator of the exhibition.
This is the first edition of this exhibition that aims to “continue growing” in the Spanish capital and that throughout the week will also hold conferences on Cuban contemporary art or documentary screenings on this subject.
“It shows different points of view from the vision of each one of their island, of their own island, we have a very strong relationship with the island, we do not feel isolated because we are very close, but we do within that which is a small space ”, explains López Domínguez.
Thus, he says that each artist “has tried to convey that feeling, with dissimilar techniques, from the most traditional to the most modern, with artists of many ages”, among which are “eight national awards”.
The complexity of having “a space” for artists within the market
The Cuban woman acknowledges that choosing fifty artists “has been very complicated,” even more so when doing it from Spain “because most of the works were brought from Cuba.”
“Here are the two visions, of those of us who are inside and those who are outside, they are different points of view because we look at it from different places but we all love the island.”
López Domínguez wanted with this project to offer Cuban artists “a space within the arts in this month that is of the arts” through the strength of ARCO in Spain.
“Having a space is difficult, plastic artists have it difficult, also because we work from individuality, uniting is not easy but it helps to unite people and work with various groups”, he points out.
The Cuban laments “that the market and art are divorced”, but believes that this type of initiative can be “a good starting point” for beginning to discover all the diversity of art on the island.
In this line, the artist Max Delgado Corteguera also expresses himself, who considers that “in the end art is not powerful but rather intangible and is above” the market and power.
“The powerful are the spaces that legitimize one art or another when creation is really beyond that, it is open,” he says.
In his opinion, Cuban art “continues to survive the need, the diaspora, the separation, the censorship or the marginality”, and calls for “erasing the borders” that are generated between the artists who continue on the island and the that they left
“Let’s try to erase that so that there are Cubans of all kinds, of all ideologies, which really is the Cuba we want,” he settles.
Efe/OnCuba.
