ARBUSTOS CON FLOR Y SETOS

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

"Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative--the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Venetian painter Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, the first notable female nude in Western painting, painters have focused their talents on the infinite possibilities of the representation of the female body. Featuring lush, full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre, Reclining Nude is a feast for the senses. From Titian's alluring Venus of Urbino to Manet's guileless Olympia, Reclining Nude provides a fascinating tour of the ...

La exposición presenta una selección de obras, principalmente fotografías, que resaltan el aspecto de la temporalidad de la imagen, en las que el artista muestra el motivo en el momento previo a su total definición, obligando al espectador a redefinir las formas que se vuelven diáfanas tras un tiempo, gracias a la complicidad de la retina del visitante. El hilo conductor de las obras lo establecen una serie de relatos relacionados con el epígrafe elegido, cuyos autores reflexionan en torno a conceptos inmateriales como el silencio y el humo.

Solange Lebourges ha sido calificada por el coreógrafo Michel Descombey como una leyenda viva de la danza, modelo de vehemencia profesional, capaz de ligar las reflexiones filosóficas y sociales al lenguaje del cuerpo. Por ello, en su faceta como profesora se ha propuesto formar bailarines que no sólo se ocupen de la técnica sino de búsquedas intelectuales.