Way into early November, an exhibit staged by three young graduates of the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy will remain open at the Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura in Havana. Stainless is the title of this exposition that got cracking last Friday and gathers the work of Jose Capaz, Alejandro Piñeiro and Fabelo Hung, who this time around show large-scale pictures, sculptures and installations.
“The first things that meets the eye about Stainless is the idea-esthetic maturity and coherence of the artworks,” says Piter Ortega, the exhibition’s curator who sheds more light on this definition in the catalog’s forewords. “First of all, the importance of the Art-Science relation in the conception and materialization of the works, as well as the value and the impact of the tactile orders, the ones that really star in the works beyond the handpicked topics. This is linked to the recurrent use of eroticism and the marked ludicrous accent on both procedures and ideas for the sake of achieving surprise and irony as fundamental drivers.” Another element mentioned by Piter is the artists’ leaning to the monumentality of the size “from an esthetics very close to the visual show.”
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello (Havana, Cuba, 1990), Jose Gabriel Capaz (Havana, Cuba, 1988) and Roberto Fabelo Hung (Havana, Cuba, 1991) graduated from the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy last year and have already taken part in over fifteen exhibits, including Pura Coincidencia (EXPOCUBA, Havana, 2009), Opción Múltiple (Fundación Arte San Juan, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2010), Ideas Acumuladas (Lyford Cay, Nassau, 2009) and Open Weekend (Oaks Park, London, 2006), among others.
Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura
Malecón n° 17 e/ Prado y Capdevila, Havana
Source: Press release
