Venice
Art Biennale 2013: National Pavilions
Around Town – Cuba. At the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia in Piazza
San Marco, until November 24 the Cuban Pavilion. Seven Cuban artists meet seven
international artists. The discuss art assignment;
rethink the relationship between reality and fiction, language and power, art
and time. The museum is a platform where
contemporary inter-media practices interact, exceeding national boundaries of
globalized culture, on to a quest for universality. The exhibition creates a genealogy in which
contexts are generated by each one of the artworks presented.
Above.
Sandra Ramos, Italia-Los Balcones (Bridging Series. 50 Miles. Italy-Baltic
Shores), 2013, installation.
Cuban
Pavilion. H.H. Lim, C’est La Vie (That is Life), 2013, mixed media, steel,
cactus.
Cuban
Pavilion. Pedro Costa, Minino Macho-Minino Femea (Boy-Girl), 2006, digital
video mini dvd.
Cuban
Pavilion. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard, 53+1=54+1=55. Letra del
ano (53+1=54+1=55. The Letter of the Year), 2013, installation.