ART@WORK PRESENTS “THE FACEBOOK WORK” BY CUBAN ARTIST ARTURO CUENCA
This solo exhibition was on view (before COVID-19) in Art@work, Miami.
THE FACEBOOK WORK will highlight Arturo Cuenca’s experimentation during the last three years with the Facebook platform. The artist dwells into political and societal contemporary issues in the social media global medium. Cultural manifestations and investigations have been present throughout the artist’s career. Cuenca’s philosophical and ideological position breaks with artistic tradition producing an aesthetic questioning human ethics. The Facebook platform allows him to explore and generate new artworks with his signature intellectual play with words, with posts of his thought provoking and keen insight on contemporary human condition and politics.
Arturo Cuenca was born in Holguín, Cuba and currently lives and works in Miami. He studied at the San Leandro Academy of Fine Arts and at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana. His solo exhibitions include Selected Works of Arturo Cuenca, the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, FL; Arturo Cuenca: A Decade of Photographs, Intar Latin American Gallery, New York, NY; Modernbund, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, NY; Aesthasy, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, NY; utopYssey, Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Castillo de la Real Fuerza:Ciencia e Ideologia, Havana, Cuba; Espectador, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; Arturo Cuenca, M.Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami, FL.
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‘Bill Che Blasio, A Double Interchangeable Mugshot’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
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‘Holocastro or The Grand Dictraitor’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
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‘JFKlinton. A Composite Mug Shot of Democratic Party Rapesidents’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
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‘Fbillary Mug Shot’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
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‘Chavstro or the Bolivarsheviks’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
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‘The Democrimetic Partum’, Arturo Cuenca, 2016-2020
He has participated in group exhibitions internationally, including the Arte no es Vida, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; XI Biennial, Paris, France; Signs of Transition: 80's Art From Cuba, the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY; Breaking Barriers, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL; In-site 2000, San Diego, USA, Tijuana, Mexico; Cuba: la Isla posible, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain; Arte de Cuba, the Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Estetica de la moda, II Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba; Ways of Worldmaking: Notes on a Passion for Collecting, Selection of works by Cuban and Cuban-American Artists from the collection of Dr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera, Miami-Dade College Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL; Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Todo perceptíon es un interpretacíon: You Are Part Of It, CIFO Art Space, Miami, FL; VIDA Y OBRA DE UNA IDEA: Miami’s Art@Work and Farside Gallery in Buenos Aires, Colectivo Periferia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Arturo Cuenca is a recipient of the CINTAS Foundation Fellowship. His work is in numerous public collections including the National Museum of Fine Arts Permanent Collection, Havana, Cuba; Fototeca, Havana, Cuba; Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela; CINTAS Foundation, Miami, FL; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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ARTURO CUENCA MEMORIAL AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CUBAN DIASPORA
The memorial of the Cuban artist Arturo Cuenca Sigarreta (1955-2021), held on the same September 21 as his birth, in the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, was a symbolic event, surely the first of many that, after his early death, will finally allow the artistic institutions to recognize the visionary character in the work of this unruly and complex creator, who, like few others, embodied a way of criticizing power, both institutional and political, that did not compromise with convenience.
