Cuba Talks: Cuban Art Beyond Borders
September 11, 2024 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
As highlighted in the foreword of Cuba Talks: Interviews with 28 Cuban Artists, Cuba has captivated global attention in recent years. Traditionally viewed as a land of myth and mystery, the island is, in fact, a dynamic hub of contemporary artistic, cultural, and political concerns.
Join the Gibbes Museum of Art for an engaging virtual conversation featuring Laura Salas Redondo, author of Cuba Talks and an international curator; Reynier Llanes, contemporary Cuban-American artist; and Patricia Diaz, art historian and curator. Together, they will explore the profound influence of Cuban artists and the diaspora, spanning from Havana to Charleston to Paris and beyond.
This event is inspired by the current exhibition Reynier Llanes: Passages, on view until September 15th.
FREE but registration is required.
Reynier Llanes: Passages
May 24, 2024- September 15, 2024
Passages presents the vibrant narrative paintings of Reynier Llanes an established Cuban-American artist (b. Pinar del Rio, 1985) now based in the United States. Llanes combines and contrasts scenes from nature and daily life with a mystical and imaginative elegance. Drawing from his own memories and experience as an artist, an émigré, and an immigrant as well as his studies of literature, history, and science, Llanes invites viewers into unique dreamworlds. His explorations of personal and societal passages, both physical and spiritual, sensitively communicate common threads in humanity. Currently living in Miami, Llanes spent six years working in Charleston. This exhibition pulls from the artist’s recent series of large-scale oil paintings, as well as his unique coffee watercolor paintings—a style he has dubbed “Espressionism.”
Reynier Llanes: Passages
May 24, 2024- September 15, 2024
Passages presents the vibrant narrative paintings of Reynier Llanes an established Cuban-American artist (b. Pinar del Rio, 1985) now based in the United States. Llanes combines and contrasts scenes from nature and daily life with a mystical and imaginative elegance. Drawing from his own memories and experience as an artist, an émigré, and an immigrant as well as his studies of literature, history, and science, Llanes invites viewers into unique dreamworlds. His explorations of personal and societal passages, both physical and spiritual, sensitively communicate common threads in humanity. Currently living in Miami, Llanes spent six years working in Charleston. This exhibition pulls from the artist’s recent series of large-scale oil paintings, as well as his unique coffee watercolor paintings—a style he has dubbed “Espressionism.”
Reynier Llanes: Passages
May 24, 2024- September 15, 2024
Passages presents the vibrant narrative paintings of Reynier Llanes an established Cuban-American artist (b. Pinar del Rio, 1985) now based in the United States. Llanes combines and contrasts scenes from nature and daily life with a mystical and imaginative elegance. Drawing from his own memories and experience as an artist, an émigré, and an immigrant as well as his studies of literature, history, and science, Llanes invites viewers into unique dreamworlds. His explorations of personal and societal passages, both physical and spiritual, sensitively communicate common threads in humanity. Currently living in Miami, Llanes spent six years working in Charleston. This exhibition pulls from the artist’s recent series of large-scale oil paintings, as well as his unique coffee watercolor paintings—a style he has dubbed “Espressionism.”
