Arte por Excelencias magazine’s 9th issue to be launched the last Thursday)
The analytic deconstruction of art works, assumed from multiple disciplines of social sciences –in the best style of Spanish master Jose Luis Brea–, was the idea commented by doctor Magaly Espinosa, at “Wifredo Lam” Contemporary Art Center, when Arte por Excelencias magazine’s latest issue was launched.
During her speech, Magaly praised the publication’s structure which from (and for) the Americas and the Caribbean includes historiographic spaces, shedding light on caricatures, architecture, bibliographic updating, artists’ monographic speech and assessments on events and mega-exhibitions, from texts with the influence of a critic without apology and complacence, practices that, she said, we must definitively leave behind when weighing up the contemporary artistic reality.
Beyond the ninth issue, she assessed the editorial work of Arte por Excelencias, two years after its foundation, and asserted that the publication has contributed to the spreading and comprehension of contemporary art processes in the Americas and the Caribbean. And, related to these statements, she quoted one of the most important critic voices in Cuba during the last decades, Rufo Caballero, whose “A cuenta y riesgo” will be missed by the magazine, a section in which he displayed his talent as staunch observer of an art-related reality, to develop a way of thinking that definitively dignifies the work of art critics in Cuba.
Magaly Espinosa’s address on the exercise and spaces of critic, and her ability for promoting the legitimate and intelligent dialogue with a specialized audience and taking it to the society, beyond the constant theoretical rethinking generated by the time, ended up flattering Margarita Sanchez Prieto’s panoramic and analytical text on Argentine artist Dolores Caceres and the her sincere work, which moves us due to its sensibility and social origin.
The event was also attended by Argentine artist Dolores Caceres, whose work illustrates the ninth issue’s cover; Jorge Fernandez, director of Lam Center; Maria Caridad Gonzalez, the magazine’s permanent correspondent in Cuba and executive editor, David Mateo, and a numerous audience.
The meeting also allowed participants to visit the recently inaugurated exhibition of Latin American art Ya se leer, organized by curators Elvia Rosa Castro, Sandra Contreras, Ibis Hernandez Abascal and Margarita Sanchez Prieto. The conclusion of the event was an invitation to admire the exhibition which, Magaly claimed, will have to be assessed in the future as a significant date for exposition work in Cuba.
