Without Masks: Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art 2010 Catalogue of the von Christierson Collection

In the following 26 brief essays devoted to each artist and the works shown in this collection, I have given priority to interpreting, deciphering, explaining and giving clues related to our contexts so as to allow the viewer a better understanding of the oeuvres. I have given less space to sharing the joy, the pleasure that the works elicit or to celebrating their formal excellence or originality. At the risk of decreasing the Without Masks:Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art mystery of the artworks, I have included small photos (mostly taken by myself) to illustrate the texts, with the intention of making the sources of such works known.

I confess to being more interested in cognitive than aesthetic issues. Aesthetics, style and fashion are probably the sine Qua non conditions of works of art, but I cannot conceive of artistic works unbound from knowledge and usefulness. As an art critic I have always attended more to the viewers need to understand and less to please the requirements of a minority group of experts. From this perspective, I consider the complexity of aesthetic, formal and stylistic artifices (those related with appearance) as some of the many masks that art should discard in preference for more important messages that the nude or less occult face would be able to transmit. Doing this would increase the receptive framework of art, which has a tendency towards elitist cultural production.
This exhibition has placed on an equal footing artists who are world-famous and artists who are practically unknown, those who are professional graduates of important academies and those who are self-taught, those who have received important awards and those who have received only acknowledgement.
(Excerpt from catalogue by editor  Orlando Hernández.)

 
    Softcover. French flaps.
    No Dust jacket.
    Minimal wear along the edges and corners.
    Text block intact.
    Published by Watch Hill Charitable Foundation, 2010.
    Binding Condition: Fine.
    Overall Condition: Very Good to Fine.
    Size: Imperial Octavo (8vo) 281 mm X 237 mm X 11 mm.
    150 pages.



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