Art and Leisure by EFE (editor@lamegamedia.com) PUBLISHED JANUARY 13, 2023 1 MINUTE READING Havana, Jan 13 (EFE) – Cuban artist Ernesto Benitez premiered this Friday at the Hispano-American Center of Culture the work “Leviathan”, an exhibition consisting of a pile of inflated garbage bags, which allude to the person “stripped of identity”. The piece, which…
The artist Ernesto Benítez -professor of Art and Anthropology- was invited by the plastic artist, designer and professor Liván Padilla to share a classroom teaching at the ISDi (Instituto Superior de Diseño) in Havana. In the first class of the course, both professors talked about the techniques of handmade printing (Xylography, Intaglio, Lithography…) techniques used in artistic engraving.
Twelve years after its presentation at CENCREM (in the context of the 10th Havana Biennial), Samsara, a multimedia environmental installation (environmental art) that Ernesto Benítez designed as a site specific art installation in 2009, continues to be included in Cuban contemporary art projects. As you know, Ernesto Benítez is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a…
After a long time away from the national exhibition scene, Cuban painter, draftsman and installation artist Ernesto Benítez returned to the island to inaugurate the exhibition Ab æternō, in his Open Studio, in the context of international visibility offered by the 13th Havana Biennial…
