when one thinks of Cuba the things that
come to minor son beach music rum but
there’s an art exhibit that’s set to
change all of that hi I’m Christina
watchmojo comrade Cuba art in history
from 1868 to today what makes Cuban art
so unique that you devoted an entire
show to it what makes it special is that
Cuba really held a very unique position
over the century and since its history
it was the richest Latin American
country for decades if not centuries and
it developed a sense of uniqueness
because it was an island and something
that is very very special they have
these great historical events wars with
with the United States with Spain the
Revolution and then the Fidel Castro
revolution the 59 and then they have
this unique condition of being maybe one
of the last communist countries in a
world that has you know moved away from
communist utopia certainly because of
the embargo it is not as well known to
us as it should be so when we saw this
history we said my god it’s rich it’s
consistent it’s it’s unique it’s a
singular narrative and it’s you can’t
come you know confuse it with any other
and we said well this is not just a
project to do that’s not just a project
we should do an overall survey of Cuban
art over the last century it has never
been done and we should undertake this
it also combines European culture and
African culture as well as Christianity
and some other aspects of spiritual
spirituality like Santa tia for example
well that’s another aspect of Cuban
history that makes it so rich this blend
of European culture with the the black
African slave culture all this mixed up
in what they call misty sauce culture
and certainly the exhibition is shows
this there is a revival of afro roots
afro-cuban roots starting in the 30s and
40s mostly with will Wilfred olam and
this is an important dimension of their
way of conceiving themselves and their
identity of the art of their culture
part of this exhibit includes a large
number of photographs can you tell us
how these photographs I’ll fit into the
exhibit it allows for the the
documentation of history mostly in the
earlier years the documentation of
society of class of class struggles of
poverty of political and historical
events you know art responds in various
ways to history but photography let’s
say for for many years at the beginning
of century documented what was happening
in in a very direct way but then
photography also has a key role in the
revolutionary period and we have these
great photographers of Cuban Revolution
ekkada made you know this famous image
of che that’s on every t-shirt the
photographic moments of Cuba were very
strong and we thought that would they
needed to be shown
come to minor son beach music rum but
there’s an art exhibit that’s set to
change all of that hi I’m Christina
watchmojo comrade Cuba art in history
from 1868 to today what makes Cuban art
so unique that you devoted an entire
show to it what makes it special is that
Cuba really held a very unique position
over the century and since its history
it was the richest Latin American
country for decades if not centuries and
it developed a sense of uniqueness
because it was an island and something
that is very very special they have
these great historical events wars with
with the United States with Spain the
Revolution and then the Fidel Castro
revolution the 59 and then they have
this unique condition of being maybe one
of the last communist countries in a
world that has you know moved away from
communist utopia certainly because of
the embargo it is not as well known to
us as it should be so when we saw this
history we said my god it’s rich it’s
consistent it’s it’s unique it’s a
singular narrative and it’s you can’t
come you know confuse it with any other
and we said well this is not just a
project to do that’s not just a project
we should do an overall survey of Cuban
art over the last century it has never
been done and we should undertake this
it also combines European culture and
African culture as well as Christianity
and some other aspects of spiritual
spirituality like Santa tia for example
well that’s another aspect of Cuban
history that makes it so rich this blend
of European culture with the the black
African slave culture all this mixed up
in what they call misty sauce culture
and certainly the exhibition is shows
this there is a revival of afro roots
afro-cuban roots starting in the 30s and
40s mostly with will Wilfred olam and
this is an important dimension of their
way of conceiving themselves and their
identity of the art of their culture
part of this exhibit includes a large
number of photographs can you tell us
how these photographs I’ll fit into the
exhibit it allows for the the
documentation of history mostly in the
earlier years the documentation of
society of class of class struggles of
poverty of political and historical
events you know art responds in various
ways to history but photography let’s
say for for many years at the beginning
of century documented what was happening
in in a very direct way but then
photography also has a key role in the
revolutionary period and we have these
great photographers of Cuban Revolution
ekkada made you know this famous image
of che that’s on every t-shirt the
photographic moments of Cuba were very
strong and we thought that would they
needed to be shown
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