Cuba

This book, edited by Diego Sileo and Giacomo Zaza, analyses the most important contemporary Cuban artistic practices, providing a means to understand the performative and subversive climate of a country that has survived and resisted for more than five decades between hostility and needs and is now going through big changes. Art has created, and continues to create, an amazing, many-voiced, ironic and critical representation, open and disruptive at the same time.
Tatuare la storia [Tattooing history] means tracing a route that involves questions of race and identity, the heritage of cultural revolutions, evolutions and involutions. A path that bears within it the primary stereotypes and needs, the popular roots and the religious rituals, the blending and bonding in the private and the social, the physical and the mental.

Milan, PAC, July - September 2016

Contents

CRITICAL ESSAYS

Cuba. The Possible Images
Diego Sileo

Tattooing History: Cuba between Commitment and Disenchantment
Giacomo Zaza

Geographies of Belonging: A Dialogue with Cuban Art, Today
Giulia Ingarao, Antonio Leone

Between Renewal and Crisis: Cuban Art in the Final Decades of the Twentieth Century
Antonio Eligio (Tonel)

ARTISTS

Juan Carlos Alom
Tania Bruguera
MarÍa Magdalena Campos-Pons
Javier Castro
Celia-Yunior
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo
Ángel Delgado
Humberto Díaz
Carlos Garaicoa
Luis Gárciga
Luis Gómez Armenteros
Antonio Gómez Margolles
FElix GonzAlez-Torres
Ricardo Miguel Hernández
Kcho
Tony Labat
Ernesto Leal
Reynier Leyva Novo
Los Carpinteros
Meira Marrero & José Toirac
Carlos Martiel
Ana Mendieta
Reinier Nande
Glexis Novoa
Marta María Pérez Bravo
Eduardo Ponjuán
Wilfredo Prieto
Grethell Rasúa
René Francisco RodrÍguez
Lázaro Saavedra
Tonel

APPENDIX

List of works

Artists’ biographies

Textos en español