Abstract:Literary and art critic Andrea O’Reilly Herrera analyzes an itinerant art exhibition known as <italic>CAFÉ</italic> (Cuban American Foremost Exhibitions), curated by Leandro Soto (b. 1956) since 2001....Literary and art critic Andrea O’Reilly Herrera analyzes an itinerant art exhibition known as <italic>CAFÉ</italic> (Cuban American Foremost Exhibitions), curated by Leandro Soto (b. 1956) since 2001. O’Reilly Herrera argues that the artists participating in this exhibition raise many of the same issues as earlier <italic>vanguardia</italic> artists in Cuba, including the significance of the island’s African and Indigenous roots, landscape, and architecture, although they do not claim to represent the entire Cuban diaspora. Still, O’Reilly Herrera’s analysis of the artworks of several <italic>cafeteros</italic>, such as Soto, José Bedia, and Raúl Villarreal, identifies recurrent themes and common concerns, especially with displacement and transculturation that, in the end, “allude to the all-embracing nature of Cuban culture itself.”Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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