The vibrancy and vitality of Cuba's art scene

 

Cub'Art Project Tuesday, April 10 8 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE!   Click Here for Free Tickets Join us for a discussion panel with 3 Cuban artists—Duhamel Xolot, Yamiliany Ferras Morales, and Jesus Gastell—coming to Pittsburgh from Cuba. The discussion will confront the art and political scene in Cuba, as well as each artist's experience as creators in Cuba today. Each artist will also present their artwork and engage in Q & A  with the public. This conversation will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation. Audience members are encouraged to bring a charged smartphone and earbuds so that they may listen to the simulcast on their phone.    Click Here for Free Tickets   Guest Artists: Duhamel Xolot Núñez was born in Havana City in 1971. Having grown up in a family of artists he started drawing and painting since his early childhood. Applying the digital tools for sketching opened a new way of a narrative and more experimental artwork and conceptual art began to develop. His most recent artwork combines graphic design, humor, and contemporary art in constant research and investigation. In 2015 he cofounded Studio O'208 as an alternative art space in the days of the 12th Havana Biennial. The Studio proved to be a vibrant and successful art venue shared by three artists. A permanent art gallery and workshop was established where his paintings are shown all year long in the heart of Old Havana.   Yamiliany Morales Ferras, was born on February 2, 1974, in  San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Havana. When she finished her Baccalaureate studies, she decided to study Visual Arts. She  was admitted to the prestigious  National Academy of Fine Arts for 3 years. Later on  she joined the Higher Institute of Art of Havana (ISA), to pursue her Art career. During her  five years of study, she  specialized in the techniques of engraving, in which she made her graduation thesis. She is currently living in Spain, where she settled with her family for fifteen years. She is  influenced by the current environment, and she has incorporated new themes to her work, before more intimate and now of a social nature.   JESÚS GASTELL is a mid-career artist who lives and works in Cuba. Gastell earned a BFA from Escuela Nacional de Artes (ENA 1983) and graduated from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA 1988) in Havana with a degree in Drawing and Painting.Instead of only establishing himself as a master of representation, Jesus Gastell uses his extraordinary abilities to reveal the hidden connections between "the real" and our cultural perception of it. His artwork operates as a continuous exercise of questioning models, assuming the nature of intellectual pleasure as an illuminating experience.     At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible and there is a reserved parking spot.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.     Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations     Visit AlphabetCity.org for our full line-up of FREE events!      Copyright © 2018 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15212