To be born in the forties of last century in a Cuba in transit between a dictatorship and a revolution that was nothing more than the preamble of another dictatorial regime, growing lulled by black and white Disney cartoons while the news were reporting the final leg of the Second World War, the sorcerer’s apprentice…, all that left a hotchpotch of memories in Jorge Carruana‘s vertiginous imagination. These lasting memories will return as raw images […]
Nacer en los años cuarenta del siglo pasado en una Cuba en tránsito entre una dictadura y una revolución que no era más que preámbulo de otro régimen dictatorial, crecer arrullado por dibujos de Disney en blanco y negro mientras los noticieros daban parte de la traca final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (el imperialismo yanqui arrasando Hiroshima y Nagasaki mientras Micky Mouse jugaba a ser aprendiz de brujo)…, todo eso dejó un batiburrillo de […]
She subverts official versions of reality, understands other means of inhabite the city, celebrates anniversaries of women artists missing from art books, she prefers ephemeral interventions in street than museographic embalming of experience…, we could say that Diana Larrea always has felt attracted by the other side of the moon. This is the title of an ongoing group exhibition curated by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, and refers to the alternative history of recent artistic practices that has […]
