Skip to main content
Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

In an emotion-filled ceremony, Grupo Excelencias celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Excelencias Awards on October 29, which, for two decades, have highlighted the most outstanding projects in tourism, gastronomy, art, and culture in Ibero-America.

Essay as underside of poetry

Los signos mutantes del laberinto (The Mutant Signs of the Maze), by Rafael Acosta de Arriba, is the first book published in Cuba on Octavio Paz, and I don’t remember a pre

Bodies in my Mirror

Maybe it’s not such a bigmistake to think that the notions Sally O’Reilly addresses in her book The Body in Contemporary Art are somehow linked to the idea that photography ba

Latin American and Caribbean Design

Design represents, in any of its expressions –industrial,graphic or showroom– a decisive component in the relation between men and the environment. During the last half ce

BOLIGÁN

Angel Boligan Corbo was born on May10, 1965 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He graduated in 1987 as a Fine Arts Professor. He currently lives in Mexico where he works as a cartoonist for

REVIEW by Arte por Excelencias

With the grand opening of the Review exhibit atthe OrigenesGallery, the Arte por Excelencias project has just joined the celebrations for the 100th issue of the Caribbean Tou

Yang Fudong Within the Timeframe

Yang Fudong, young artist born in 1971, belongs to a generation that has gone through many commotions in every order: “In China, who has received education can be ambitious, but always finds

Ambra Polidori in Havana

The exhibition Disagreements (Desacuerdos), at the Fototeca de Cuba, by Ambra Polidori (born in Mexico and of Italian descent) was one of the major photography displays ever showcased in

Paraguay Rape / Paraguayan path

Interested in the complex relation betweenParaguayans and Argentineans –pervaded by hindrances from the Triple Alliance war (1864-1870), dictatorial complicity (Condor plan), border tensions

From the Caribbean Coast, INDEPENDIENTEMENTE 42nd National Exhibit of Colombian Artists

In an article written by Luis Camnitzer in 1999, the author referred to how “the model of Biennial art exhibition and the Olympic Games have survived a century of apparent evolu

Editorial 11-12

With this issue of Arte por Excelencias magazine we delve into the creative dynamics of Colombian fine artists, basically in the categories of social intervention, installation and perfor

PINTA NY: From November 10 to 13

One of the most long-awaited events for gallery owners and Latin American art collectors, PINTA NY, celebrates in 2011 its fifth anniversary. From November 10 to 13, the show opens its doors to th

Personal Exhibition by Los Carpinteros in Spain

Inaugurated yesterday, October 15, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palma de Mallorca, invites viewers to visit Los Carpinteros’ (Cuba, Dagoberto Rodriguez and Marco Cast

October: The Multiple Art Month in Madrid

The 19th edition of Estampa 2011, a fair specializing in multiple art works will take place in Madrid from October 20 to 23.

Joan Miró: London-Barcelona-Washington

London’s Tate Modern hosted until September 11 the blockbuster exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. Following  the amazing reception by the public (303,000 visito