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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces First Museum Exhibition Dedicated to Cuban Mid-Century Design

Images clockwise from top left: 1) Helena Serrano, Day of the Heroic Guerrilla (October 8), 1968, poster for the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). 2) Gonzalo Córdoba, Habana Lounge Chair, 1964, for Dujo Muebles, mahogany and leather. Photo: David Avilés. 3) Marco Castillo, Beltrán, 2019, mahogany and cane. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Gallery. 4) Félix Beltrán, Libertad Para Angela Davis (Freedom for Angela Davis), 1971. 5) Eva Björklund, Monster Chair, c. 1970. Photo: Claudia Monteagudo. 6) Clara Porset, Miguelito Armchair, 1960, linden tree wood and leather. Photo: David Avilés.A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century DesignExhibition Dates: June 15, 2023-September 22, 2024ArtMember Preview: June 14, 2024The new exhibition will feature furniture never exhibited outside of Cuba.An accompanying book will tell the story of a lost generation of design.Will be accompanied by two other exhibitions featuring contemporary Cuban artists and designers in A Modernist Regime: The Cuban Contemporary LensBloomfield Hills, ...

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Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector

As part of A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens, the solo exhibition Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector features several bodies of work by the artist and prolific collector of Cuban mid-century design that he initially started to amass while working as part of the artist collective Los Carpinteros (1992–2018). Castillo incorporates the aesthetics derived from Cuban modernism in his practice to resurrect Cuban design history and to critique the oppression by the government against artists, designers, and intellectuals in Cuba. Many of the artworks are named after modernist Cuban architects and designers in homage to this forgotten generation of creators, including Gonzalo Córdoba, María Victoria Caignet, Iván Espín, Reinaldo Togores, Heriberto Duverger, Clara Porset, and Félix Beltrán—all of whom are featured in the companion historical exhibition, also on view at the museum, A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design. Castillo’s work often references the aerial view of the ...

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Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed)

As part of A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens, the exhibition Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed) features six artists and designers—Julío Llopíz Casal, Liliam Dooley, Anet Melo Glaria, Celia González Álvarez, Hamlet Lavastida, and Ernesto Oroza—that respond to the current conditions in Cuba. As of now, none of the artists live in Cuba, with some forced into exile. Over the past few years, the Cuban government has launched a campaign to suppress the artistic community and control creative production through official legislation, such as Decree 349, in an attempt to quell the outpouring of anti-government artwork and music. The exhibition features six new commissions that use their individual practices to mine these design and material histories to elucidate the past and imagine potential futures. As co-curator Abel González Fernández explains, “When looking at Cuba, we must recognize our fascinating, tragic, elegant, and complex Cuban history. What are we going to ...

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2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

The innovative work from the next generation of architects, artists, and designers will be on display at the 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The Degree Exhibition showcases pieces that are the culmination of two years of studio work from a diverse group of graduates as they launch their careers.The show opens to the public on Sunday, April 7, with a special ArtMembers’ Preview Day on Saturday, April 6.Book Admission Tickets for the ArtMembers' Opening Preview Party on April 6, 2024.

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