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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/curator-tour-laura-mott-abel-gon
 zalez-fernandez-august/
SUMMARY:Curator Led Tour: Laura Mott and Abel González Fernández
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a tour of the paired exhibitions A Modernist Regime
 : Cuban Mid-Century Design and A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban 
 Lens led by co-curators Laura Mott\, Chief Curator\, Cranbrook Art Museum 
 and Abel González Fernández. The tour will be approximately one hour and
  include a discussion of the Cuban Modern Collection and contemporary resp
 onses to the historic collections. Participants should be prepared to stan
 d/walk for the duration of the event.  \n\nFocused on the decades immedi
 ately following the Cuban Revolution (1959)\, A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mi
 d-Century Modern Design presents a small but prolific cohort of artists\, 
 designers\, and architects who responded to the demands of a newly central
 ized economy\, including the material constraints imposed by ensuing embar
 goes\, popular demands for more equitable access to goods\, and initial ex
 citement about the role modern design could play in shaping a new society.
     \n\nModernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design is complemented by
  A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens\, which features two pres
 entations: Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector and Cuba Dispersa\, 
 in which contemporary artists respond to both this earlier design history 
 and the loss of creative freedoms in Cuba today. These exhibitions tell a 
 cautionary tale of how Cuban modernism in design parallels the country’s
  existential authoritarian conflicts that resulted in a dictatorship that 
 persists today. This trajectory of government control over the production 
 of art\, architecture\, and design reaches its apex in Cuba today\, where 
 artists and other creatives are routinely censored\, imprisoned\, and exil
 ed.   \n\nAbel González Fernández (Havana\, 1991) is a writer and cur
 ator focusing on Mid-century art and design and global contemporary art pr
 actices. González Fernández is the Associate Curator at the Museum of Co
 ntemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)\, where he is currently working on the firs
 t museum individual exhibition of the artist duo ASMA\, formed by Matias A
 rmendaris (b. 1990\, Ecuador) and Hanya Beliá (b. 1994\, Mexico). He grad
 uated from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS)\, Bard College\, in 202
 3\, where he focused his thesis research on contemporary Latinx art. Previ
 ously to MOCAD\, González Fernández curated exhibitions in Havana\, Berl
 in\, Tokyo\, and New York. In 2019\, he was awarded the Prince Claus Fonds
  Next Generation Program. In 2022-23\, he curated Sin Autorización\, Cont
 emporary Cuban Art\, at the Wallach Gallery\, Columbia University. Gonzál
 ez Fernández is the co-curator of The Modernist Regime: Cuban Midcentury 
 Design\, the first exhibition on Cuban Mid-Century Modernism in the US at 
 Cranbrook Art Museum\, Detroit. Among various publications\, he is one of 
 the authors of  The Modernist Regime: Cuban Midcentury Design\, Rizzoli-E
 lecta\, 2024\; He is a contributing writer and advisor for “Latin Americ
 an Artist: From 1785 to Now\,” published by Phaidon Press in 2023\, and 
 writer and editor for Art from the End of the World: Six Decades of Sound 
 and Fury\, 2023\, a monographic on Argentinian artist Roberto Jacoby\, pub
 lished by Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and CCS Bard
 . \n\nRSVPs for this event have reached capacity. Guests are still welcom
 e to visit the galleries.
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CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, 
 MI\, 48303\, United States
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