Word: cuban
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. According to Jose Luis Falconi, Latin American and Latino Art Forum coordinator and curator of the exhibition, “Cuba is very difficult to frame.” But this small show, representing two generations of Cuban history, manages to express the complexity of Cuban society in a way accessible to Harvard students...
...portfolios sent to the Art Forum this year in their effort to showcase Latin American art at Harvard. The exhibition itself is informal and informative. Upstairs in the Center for Latin American studies, the black and white, photojournalistic pictures of Ernesto Fernandez tell a chronological history of the Cuban Revolution. In the downstairs resource room, his son’s colorful scenes of present-day Havana show the remnants of Cuba’s tumultuous past...
...young soldiers. In Fernandez’ portrayal of the October Crisis of 1962, a 12-year-old boy turns away from his post at a machine gun and towards the camera, holding a small puppy. Fernandez senior always brings aesthetic and social awareness to his viewers. The pictures show Cuban personalities, agriculture, war, culture and life, effectively describing an era, the “now” of Fernandez senior’s career...
...other hand, his son, Ernesto Javier Fernandez, illustrates how the past has shaped the Cuba of today, both in his scenes of Havana and of Cuban beaches and farms. He is more interested in the Cuban landscape than his father, tracing the legacy of past people and events in the surroundings they changed...
Both artists are deeply Cuban, but it is only through the combination of their different historical perspectives that the viewer finds a more complete picture of what makes this island nation so hard to define...