Art Code Space is proud to announce its participation for the first time in an art fair: Pinta Miami 2020, with a fantastic catalog of Cuban artists made up of Glauber Ballestero, Humberto Diaz, Lorena Gutiérrez Camejo, Antonio Gómez Margolles, Iván Perera, Héctor Remedios and Linet Sanchez.
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GLAUBER BALLESTERO
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Glauber constructs a fictional reality around racial and cultural discourses. The color white is used as an aesthetic and conceptual resource, based on its condition of container and synthesis of all colors.
Glauber Ballestero (Cuba, 1977) is an artist who graduated from the University of the Arts in Cuba. His work has been exhibited in various Cuban galleries and in numerous countries, both personal and group exhibitions, and as part of international cultural events and biennials. He has always had the concern of exploring social constructions on certain political, historical, and human processes, based on unquestionable truths.
The pieces, similar to a prosthetic body, operate artificially as in performance. It uses multiple references that come from cinema, literature, science, and the occult, creating a hybrid discourse that is consolidated through the visual.
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HUMBERTO DIAZ
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The central theme of his work revolves around the "notion of reality" and how sociopolitical, psychological and sensory conditioning affect its perception.
Humberto Diaz (Cuba, 1975) graduated in Sculpture from theUniversity of the Arts. Humberto is known for his site-specific, videos and performances in important national and international events (Havana Biennial, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg, Russia, Portugal Arte and the Venice Biennale. He has been invited to different scholarships and artistic residencies His works are in important public and private collections in various regions of the world. The development of Díaz's work has stood out for its versatility, he does not skimp on the use of techniques and means to convey an idea. That is why it covers a wide spectrum of manifestations, such as installation, site-specific work, performance, video or photography.
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LORENA GUTIERREZ CAMEJO
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Lorena faces the problems of power from the intelligence of subterfuge. She uses elements of fashion, advertising and social networks to reveal the shady processes of those who dominate, repress and try to clean up the facts like crime scenes.
Lorena Gutierrez (Cuba, 1987) is an artist who graduated from the University of the Arts in Cuba. Her work has been exhibited in various Cuban galleries and in numerous countries, both personal and group exhibitions, and as part of international cultural events and biennials. Many of her pieces are in private collections, museums and institutions. She has been the recipient of national and international creation scholarships. Lorena has experienced performance, photography, sculpture, painting and installations, where she mostly reconstructs scenarios of political conflicts.
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ANTONIO GOMEZ MARGOLLES
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Antonio G. Margolles uses photography in his work in an experimental way linked many times to his installations, passing through different stages, and expressing his constant questioning about the nature of the human being.
Antonio Gomez Margolles (Cuba, 1972) graduated from the University of the Arts (ISA) in 1998. He has made personal exhibitions in Cuba, Spain and New Zealand, and has participated in numerous national and international group shows in countries such as Cuba, United States States, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, New Zealand, etc. He has also participated in various Scholarship and Residency Workshops in European countries. In 2008 he began to teach at ISA.
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IVAN PERERA
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Perera's work has been influenced by literature. Book titles, diverse narratives about the same event, or the repetition of debatable phenomena that are assumed to be true in the culture, are the starting point for establishing questions about history as a tool of power, religious faith, death, and the body in western thought.
Ivan Perera (Cuba, 1993) is an artist who graduated from the University of the Arts in Cuba. Important scholarships have been awarded to him in the United States, Latin America and Europe. His work has been exhibited in various Cuban galleries and in numerous countries, both personal and group exhibitions, and as part of cultural events. Since his beginnings in art, he has worked with the object as a body that provides conceptual duality and challenges his own limits. In his proposals, objects supplant the body as containers of vital information.
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HECTOR REMEDIOS
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Hector Remedios focuses on the bioelectricity that emanates from the human organism by nature, particularly in that generated during a process related to the artistic act.
Hector Remedios (Cuba, 1990) graduated from Visual Arts of the University of the Arts (ISA). The scope of Remedios is fundamentally between performance and the Art-Science-Technology relationship with a marked interest in Bio-art practices. He is the author of a thesis on (Self) Sustainable Interaction Processes in the artistic circuit.
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LINET SANCHEZ
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Linet's work mainly moves between photography and sculpture. This connects with memory and architectural spaces, which he perceives as a kind of container.
Linet Sánchez (Cuba, 1989) is a professor at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and a member of UNEAC. She graduated in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts, Havana. Sánchez has participated in several exhibitions in Cuba, Italy, Paris and Germany. In 2013, she received the Havana Cultural Residence at the Havana Club International, won the First Post-it Prize at the Artis 718. Her work shows them white, empty, alluding to oblivion and at the same time to a kind of birth; since for her, over time our memories are separating from the reality that made them born to become something else. Her works arise from self-absorption and introspection, not from the observation of what surrounds us.
