viernes, 29 de junio de 2012

Conexos, nuevo espacio en Internet (update)

Finalmente ya se puede leer la Revista Conexos. Haga clic aquí


Ernesto G. y la Editorial Silueta presentarán próximamente la revista de arte y literatura “Conexos”. El proyecto se resume en un portal en la Red y pretende divulgar la obra de artistas y escritores radicados fuera de Cuba. No importa latitudes, y según Ernesto, habrá espacio para generaciones diversas. La premisa es la calidad.

Narrativa, poesía, ensayo, video, fotografía, reseña, crítica, artes plásticas, cine, son las secciones con que contará la página. Sin embargo, Ernesto me comenta que aspiran igual a un anuario impreso donde se divulgaría lo mejor.

Suerte, y permanencia…


miércoles, 13 de junio de 2012

Rafael López Ramos en la Gran Manzana



Rafe, el próximo sábado 17 de julio presentará su más reciente trabajo: Wonderland. La exhibición será en Brooklyn, New York. Estarán también en el opening Lenna Pierce y Roberto Poveda.

Abajo el texto, en inglés, que promueve el evento y que tomo de su muro en FB.

17 Frost Art Space is proud to present the exhibition WONDERLAND, taking place at 17 Frost St., Brooklyn, NY, 11211 on Saturday July 7th, from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, featuring the recent works of artist Rafael Lopez-Ramos and a musical presentation by Lenna Pierce at 8:00 pm, and Roberto Poveda at 9:00 pm. All this is part of the symposium Havana, Miami, Brooklyn: A Convergence of Art and Music.

Lopez Ramos artworks are usually structured on multiple visual and semantic layers of contrasting iconographies from which a concept emerges. For his Wonderland series, Lopez Ramos has resorted to found objects, mostly containers/labels of consumer goods, and pornographic images, all of which morphs into a sort of palimpsest when superimposed on abstract expressionist backgrounds. The series comprises several paintings on canvas, 9 assemblages on plywood which are part of The POLIsexyGONS Suite, and a number of works made on a cheesy wallpaper pattern stamped vinyl that compose The Wonder Banners.

Following his cogitative penchant, in this new series Lopez Ramos analyzes the recurrence of sex in commercial advertising, and women in their double roll as a target and a commodified “object of desire” for those ad campaigns. As Marshall McLuhan noted, “the ad men are constantly breaking through into the Alice in Wonderland territory behind the looking glass, which is the world of sub-rational impulses and appetites.” This sex narrative carries a dark metaphor of our zeitgeist, while emulating the obscenity level of certain social, economic and political events we are currently witnessing in Europe and North America. Sex served as a side dish for finances and politics or a naughty collateral for toxic mortgages.

The symposium Havana, Miami, Brooklyn: A Convergence of Art and Music will be held at 17 Frost from July 6th to July 8th, 2012 with the support of a Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Artist Access grant administered by Tigertail Productions. The symposium will be an exchange of knowledge in a cross discipline and multi-cultural framework between Cuban-Canadian visual artist Lopez Ramos, Cuban singer Roberto Poveda, American musician Lenna Pierce and several Brooklyn based street artists. Located in the heart of Williamsburg, BK, 17 Frost has fast become one of the most exciting and experimental art spaces in New York today. Established by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares, 17 Frost encourages people from all walks to create and congregate. With a dynamic array of facilities and services, it is able to support all form of art and expression. Unlike most galleries, 17 Frost is in the business of providing an exhibition space to artists who want to show their work in an environment of freedom and cooperation.

Rafael Lopez-Ramos is a visual artist, critic and curator, born in Cuba, 1962. Graduated from Academia San Alejandro, in Havana. His art has been recently exhibited in It's not the Economy but the Epistemology, Collage Gallery, Coral Gables, FL; Base Paint -The Auction, IDEOBOX Artspace, Miami, FL; CAFE XII, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO, 2011; and his previous show Mirroring Nature at Nina Torres Fine Art, Miami, FL, 2010. His work is discussed in the book Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Texas Press, 2011, and has participated in curated group exhibitions like DUODECAD, Edge Zones Art Center, Miami, FL., 2010, Contemporary Cuban Art in New York (CANY), Dactyl Foundation, NY, 2009; Miami: Ciudad Metáfora, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL., 2008, and Killing Time, Exit Art, N.Y., 2007. Between 1997-2006, Lopez Ramos resided in Canada, currently lives and works in Miami. www.lopezramos.info

Original from Lincoln, Nebraska, Lenna Pierce is a Brooklyn based musician who has been singing weird, sad, funny, loving songs ever since she was an annoying little girl on the city bus. http://www.reverbnation.com/meanerpencil

Roberto Poveda is planning to release a new album in mid- 2012 titled Brooklyn Nights, which is a twelve songs performance that showcases not only his classic laid-back vocal style, but also his ability to write emphatic lyrics in a discourse about life, love and existence rooted on the Cuban Trova style, something he have experimented all this years. http://www.robertopoveda.com/

This event is free of charge
Where: 17 Frost St., Brooklyn, NY, 11211
When: Saturday, July 7th, from 7:00 pm to 11:00
Exhibition runs from July 7th through August 25th, 2012 –to visit during this time please make an appointment by contacting Javier Hernandez-Miyares.
Ph. 718 902 5714 / email 17frost@gmail.com / website http://17frost.com/
— con Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Roberto Poveda, Fima Ephron, Renato Thoms y Jaime Affoumado.

martes, 5 de junio de 2012

Los hombres y su capacidad...

Recién una amiga, en medio de una agradable tertulia, aseguraba con sobrada vehemencia que los hombres no podemos manejar dos ideas a la vez.

Hoy leo en Mundinho da Cultura Pró-Álcool -blog brasileiro que visito casi a diario-, una frase que nos reivindica.

¡Sí estamos capacitados para tal evento! La frase en cuestión –de autoría desconocida- es la que nos salva de comentarios tan insultantes:

Los senos son la prueba definitiva de que los hombres consiguen prestar atención a dos cosas al mismo tiempo.



Incluso, a "cuatro cosas" si nos dan la oportunidad…

viernes, 1 de junio de 2012

María Cristina Fernández. Reseña de Sanctasanctórum

Javier Iglesias postea en su blog Escombros Hablaneros una reseña de María Cristina Fernández sobre el cuaderno de poesía que publicase recientemente Jesús Alberto Díaz (Tinito, como le conocen sus amigos).

Sin permiso de los implicados, asistiéndome de esa vulnerabilidad que gozan los buenos textos en la red -lo que implica que uno termine “robándoselos”-, dejo el link para disfrute de todos. Sin embargo, no puedo sustraerme a comentar.

Pienso que María Cristina ha sido hábil, certera, en cuanto a detallar un libro como Sanctasanctórum (eRIGINAL Books). Salta a la vista de quien sabe apreciar la buena poesía, que este poemario se nutre de vivencias, y la composición de sus imágenes resulta una suerte de retrospectiva. Lo vivido por el poeta en su niñez, tal vez en su juventud, se cuenta en lo que me atrevo a definir como un diario inconcluso. Un mundo para nada idílico, “malogrado” -como bien subraya María C.- que Tinito supo perfilar en versos para traérnoslo luego -y lo mejor- sin la intención de suavizar el contexto.

Sanctasanctórum se me antoja entonces un breviario del que hemos de beber. Poemas muy lejos del reciclaje, de los espacios comunes, que vienen a puntualizar que lo vivido cuenta, y de qué manera. No hay porqué pedir prestado…

Reitero, Javier Iglesias publica una excelente reseña de María Cristina Fernández, en la que transcribe un libro que dignifica al verso.


Para leer la reseña
"Elogio a un libro nacido en la penumbra"
clic aquí


María Cristina Fernández

Daphne Rosas en Frame Works