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Willy-Brandt-Allee 9 D-53113
+49.228.212251 FAX +49.228.212251
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No Place
dal 9/4/2002 al 9/6/2002
+49.228.224450 FAX +49.228.212251
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9/4/2002

No Place

Ifa-gallery, Bonn

With the exhibition,'No Place' the ifa Gallery Bonn presents pieces by five Cuban artists who are working with installations and performances, as well as-increas-ingly-with video filming and the new digital media.


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Cuba
Installations, Objects, Videos and Performance

'Of course, our sources of creativity can be found all around the world. We do not just 'feed' on the events in our island. Our problems could just as well be yours. We destroy this absolute closure, which sometimes suffocates us, by provoking an an-swer or confrontation, and by seeking communication.'
Magda González-Mora

One of the most vibrant, fascinating current art scenes can be found on the Carib-bean island state of Cuba which, with its Havana Biennale art festival, functions as a cultural hub between Europe, Africa and the two Americas. Some of the young Cuban artists have recently become stars on the international, most especially the North American, market-despite all the US-American political embargoes.

With the exhibition,'No Place' the ifa Gallery Bonn presents pieces by five Cuban artists who are working with installations and performances, as well as-increas-ingly-with video filming and the new digital media.
As co-founder and curator of the Havana Biennale, Magda Gonzalez-Mora-who has curated the 'No Place' ex-hibition-keeps closely in touch with and has the most direct knowledge of what is happening in Cuban art. This has enabled her to develop a fascinating exhibition in co-operation with the artists themselves.

The exhibition is also designed to counter the many prejudices against and clichés about insular Cuban life and to show that the subject and problems the artists deal with are universally valid and topical, beyond the local rhetoric. Magda Gonzalez sees this validity and topicality confirmed mainly in the basic questions related to (global) communication, in identity and manipulation, ethics, culture and power-subjects that also appear in the artists works.

The artists
Tania Bruguera
Luis Gómez
Quisqueya Henriquez
Ernesto Leal
Manuel Piña

Image: Luis Gómez, Never Mind, 2000 Installation at the 7th Havana Biennial Photos: Gerhard Haupt

Ifa-gallery Bonn
Willy-Brandt-Allee 9
D-53113 Bonn
Phone +49.228.224450
Fax +49.228.212251

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