CUBA IN COLOR: CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART

Transporting the vibrancy and richness of Cuban artistic discourse to Southampton. CUBA IN COLOR showcases the works of some of the island's best known living artists including Arturo Monoto Echevarría, Esteban Machado Díaz, Alicia de la Campa Pak, Sinecio Cuétara, and Carlos Guzmán. Arturo Montoto is one of the most important contemporary Cuban artists of his generation. His work has been exhibited throughout the Americas, at the Vatican, and is included in the collections of numerous museums including the Lowe Art museum at the University of Miami and National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. Artist Esteban Machado continues to rise in prominence, showcasing his work Ode to Frida, 2023 in the Venice Biennial from April to November this year. He boasts a pubic career of over 25 years, including 40 solo exhibitions, mastering natural land and seascapes birthed from a deep study of the island's vibrant foliage and coastline scenery, while recently exploring the worsening socioeconomic situation in Cuba through his 2023 collection titled "the Legacy". Alongside them we feature recent work by the distinguished Alicia de la Campa Pak, one of the, unfortunately, few prominent female artists from the island, best known for her detailed works of charcoal on canvas which are an active discourse of the role of women in society. Sinecio Cuétara and Carlos Guzmán join them as long standing career artists, now in their 50s, with works that offer vibrancy of color, emotive themes and surrealism.