Puro Arte Cubano

There's been a big demand for Cuban art over the past few years. Collectors, museums, exhibitors have imported, sometimes clandestinely, works from Cuban artists from the island. Some of the works I've seen, especially those smuggled into the country, are quite stirring. Other works, those brought to the US through *cultural exhanges*, are good in their own right, but I believe they lack something.

These pieces approved by Castro's regime to be lent to museums and exhibits abroad lack purity. I say this because art should be the conveyance of the artist's free expression. That is, whatever type of work it happens to be, it cannot and should not be censored.

I had this same conversation with Jerome du Bois, one of the writers for The Tears of Things blog. He had asked my opinion on the Havana Biennial Art Show and, while I was not trying to convince him of anything, my conversation with him gave him a different set of spectacles to view Cuban Art through.

In this post by Jerome, he touches upon the very same subject. And while there is some truth to the artist's work depicted in his article, the true reality of Cuba is in the supression of her people's ideas.

Posted by Val Prieto at December 23, 2003 08:03 AM

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