The Lowe Art Museum to Showcase Cuba Avant-Garde Art Exhibition
Miami, FL – Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection will provide a rare opportunity to glimpse the extraordinary diversity and quality of Cuban art created from the mid 1980s to the present. The exhibition, which will be on view at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum from February 6 through April 4, 2010, will illustrate how contemporary Cuban art transcends the limits of geography and nationality, while engaging and enriching a much larger global artistic discourse.
The exhibition aims to highlight the cultural mixing and aesthetic diversity that reflects international contemporary art, but also emerges from the distinct circumstances of Cuba itself. Cuba Avant-Garde will present large scale paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and mixed media works by forty Cuban-born artists. The artists use irony and metaphor to communicate themes ranging from the history of colonialism, emigration, and exile. Political and economic crisis, religion, and gender and race are additionally accentuated.
All of the artworks in the exhibition were selected from a more extensive collection of contemporary Cuban art assembled by Howard and Patricia Farber of New York City and Miami Beach. With broad experience as a major collector of American modernist painting and contemporary Chinese art, Howard Farber began collecting contemporary Cuban art after a visit to the island in 2001. Mr. Farber was soon trotting the globe to find the very best Cuban contemporary pieces available, resulting in a collection that truly encapsulates a period of great significance.
Howard Farber, a retired real-estate investor, also views all of this as not only art news, but business news as well – the business of collecting art.
Here is related, recent press on the show: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/arts/voice-of-a-nation-65457262.html
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami / 1301 Stanford Drive / Coral Gables, Florida 33124-6310
Phone: (305) 284-3535 / Fax: (305) 284-2024 / Website : http://www.miami.edu/lowe
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