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The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana

2014 / ISBN 978-1-90896-654-4
128 pages, b/w and colour, paperback, published with Black Dog Publishing, London UK

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Exhibition catalogue from The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana at the Belkin (10 January-13 April 2014) with essay by Cecilia Andersson, Antonio Eligio (Tonel) and Keith Wallace. As opined by the book’s title, this is a publication focused toward the shared spaces and communal sensibilities of a city, rather than an attempt to survey the entire contemporary output of this anomalous nation. In essence, the study is a concentrated one of modern Havana, taking note of those artistic, cultural, socioeconomic and anthropological influences on its art scene without intent to become pedagogic in the process. Including major contemporary figures such as Juan Carlos Alom, Celia y Junior and Eduardo Ponjuan, The Spaces Between discusses the modern current of unfocused politicisation within the work, where issues of money, identity and bureaucracy are garnered from each viewers reading and imagination of suggestion, a reflection of the current emphasis on the spectator as contributor to making meaning. Published in collaboration with the Belkin’s exhibition of the same name (10 January-13 April 2014), the book maintains the ambient approach of the partnering exhibition in an attempt to depict the context of Havana artists in the modern era. In part it discusses the lo-tech necessities of modern artists working in the city today, which has formed if not a coherent style, then a municipal approach to the process. As such, much of the work uses recycled materials or simple video and text-based elements to convey its meaning in a manner more diverse and ambiguous than prior generations of Cuban artists.

 

  • Cecilia Andersson

    Writer

    Cecilia Andersson studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, and holds a master’s degree in Curating from Goldsmiths, London (2002). She has worked at Tate and FACT, both in Liverpool. In 2003, she initiated Werk, a platform for discussing the changing role of the artist within the context of urban regeneration. Her current interests concern the social function of art and include co-creation processes, interdisciplinary approaches, and contextual challenges in terms of communication and presentation of artists’ works. Andersson was acting curator for Madrid Abierto (2009-10), and as an independent curator organized exhibitions at Moderna Museet (2004), the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (2008), and the Swedish Museum of Architecture (2008). Recently, she has curated exhibitions of the work of Francesco Jodice, Daniel Canogar, Reynier Leyva Novo, Rawiya, Agnès Varda, Stéphane Couturier, Leonor Fini, and Thilo Frank, all at Bildmuseet. Her writing has been published extensively in international journals, magazines, and artist catalogues. Andersson is currently Curator at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden. (2014)

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  • Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández)

    Curator, Writer

    Antonio Eligio Fernández “Tonel” (b. Cuba, 1958) is an independent artist, art critic and curator. He graduated with a degree in Art History from the University of Havana in 1982. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, in 2001, and was a visiting artist/lecturer at the Center for Latin American Studies and at the Department of Art and Art History in Stanford University, California, from 2001 to 2003. His articles and essays on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art are published in catalogues and journals in Cuba and abroad. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba; the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany; the Van Reekum Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands; the Daros Collection in Zurich, Switzerland; the Department of Fine Arts at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; the Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe, Arizona; the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art in the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, among other institutions. Tonel was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998), with residency at The University of Texas, Austin, and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Painting and Installation Art (1995). He was awarded the Prize for Art Criticism by the Cuban Section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) in 1988. In 2003 he received the Cuban Artists Fund Award (New York, USA). He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he focuses on his own practice as a visual artist and writer, and teaches drawing and painting at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC.

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  • Keith Wallace

    Curator, Writer

    Independent curator Keith Wallace (Canadian, b. 1951) has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991 to 2001 he was Curator, then Director/Curator, of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He has organized exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto, and the Belkin, where he was Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2008 and 2012 to 2015. Wallace has travelled to India more than a dozen times over close to thirty years and artists of South Asian descent he has exhibited in Vancouver include Shani Mootoo, Sunil Gupta, Vivan Sundaram, Subodh Gupta, and Anita Dube. From 2004 to 2020, he was Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English-language publication on contemporary Chinese art that is edited and designed in Vancouver and published in Taipei, Taiwan.

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    10 January 2014 – 13 April 2014

    The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana

    The Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana from January 10 to April 13, 2014. Conceived by Cuban artist and critic, Antonio Eligio (Tonel) and Associate Director/Curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Keith Wallace, this exhibition focuses on the social spaces and shared sensibilities of this dynamic city, as opposed to an attempt to survey an entire nation’s artistic output. The Spaces Between explores contemporary Havana from artistic, cultural, sociological, and anthropological perspectives within a new social and economic reality that has made itself evident in Cuba in recent years. While most works seem to convey a disinterest in the political, it does take form in the imagination of the viewer, an artistic strategy that emphasizes how important the spectator has become in the making of meaning in visual art. Hence the title of the exhibition— The Spaces Between —that is, the spaces between the artwork and its reception, between the said and the unsaid, and between the past and the future. This exhibition will provide an update on Utopian Territories: New Art From Cuba that showed at the Belkin and other Vancouver galleries in 1997, and will feature works by Juan Carlos Alom, Javier Castro, Sandra Ceballos Obaya, Celia-Yunior, Ricardo G. Elías, Luis Gárciga Romay, Luis Gómez Armenteros, Jesús Hdez-Güero, Ernesto Leal, Glenda León, Eduardo Ponjuán González, Grethell Rasúa, Lázaro Saavedra González and Jorge Wellesley.

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