PINTURA CUBANA I. SELECCIÓN DE MAESTROS Y ALUMNOS = CUBAN PAINTING. SELECTION OF MASTERS AND STUDENTS" FROM THE VIÑAS-GIL COLLECTION

Havana, Cuba; Valencia, Spain: Selvi Ediciones, 2024. b/w and color plates, endpapers, color pict. boards. Corresponding to the homonymous exhibition that was seen at the Infanta Elena Museum, in the Spanish city of Tomelloso, between June and August of this year, reproduces works by the 18 contemporary Cuban artists participating in the exhibition who were master teachers and students from the Viñas-Gil colletion. The collection contains works from the 19th century to the 21st. This list includes Yasiel Álvarez, Luis Enrique Camejo, Yudel Francisco Cruz, Gustavo Díaz Sosa, Alejandro Gómez Cangas, Vicente Hernández, Alexis Leyva (Kcho), Gerardo Liranza, Alfredo Mendoza, Víctor Manuel Ojeda, Niels Reyes, Javier Rivero, René Francisco Rodríguez, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Yohy Suárez, Omar Tirado, José Omar Torres and Carlos Zorrilla. In its more than 350 pages, voices legitimized by a long career converge, young people who are beginning the risky profession of criticizing the work of their contemporaries and also statements, while offering a repertoire of pieces belonging to the Viñas-Gil, Bernardo Quetglas collections and the personal collections of the creators. "The common denominator of the whole is undoubtedly the painting, whose formalizations have a broad and diverse register, neither sectarian nor contradictory,» says the critic Nelson Herrera Ysla, author of the essay that opens the catalogue and who will be in charge of the presentation at the National Museum of Fine Arts." In his words, in addition, «the paths that mark this brief selection of works point to an art produced in Cuba, at times aligned with the context, and with inaccessible spaces of the imagination, the dream, and a kind of fantasy related to the surreal. "We observe a transfiguration of meanings that dwell within each author in possession of greater creative freedom," says Herrera Ysla. CONTENTS: Venturas de coleccionar / Nelson Herrera Ysla -- Artistas: Yasiel Alvarez -- Luis Enrique Camejo -- Yudel Francisco Cruz -- Gustavo Diaz Sosa -- Alejandro Gomez Cangas -- Vicente Hernandez -- Alexis Leyva (Kcho) -- Gerardo Liranza -- Victor Manuel Ojeda -- Niels Reyes -- Javier Rivero -- Rene Francisco Rodriguez -- Dagoberto Rodriguez -- Yohy Suarez -- Omar Tirado -- Jose Omar Torres -- Carlos Zorrilla. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS.