Curated by Carlos Garaicoa

Openning Saturday June 28, 2008 from 4.00 to 8.00 pm
From June 28 to August 2, 2008

Gentil Carioca invites you to the exhibition opening “Cuba Pitches”, Saturday 28 from 4.00 to 8.00 pm. This exhibition will present the work of seven young Cuban artists for the first time at Rio de Janeiro . It was curated by the artist Carlos Garaicoa with the intention of bringing together a group of talented emerging artists in the Cuban art scene.

The public attending to this exhibition will find various approaches to important themes not only for Cuba as a socialist country but also for its universal reflections that alludes to art, hope, identity, history, globalization, new technologies, etcetera. From the use of very particular symbols like Cuban national anthem and flower (Reynier Leyva Novo) for treating themes such as identity and Cuban history that has not been written, to the reinterpretation of a homogenized society by using the empty and dysfunctional values transmitted by urban transit signals (Rodolfo Peraza).
-From the desire of returning to a space of freedom, a kind of childhood state in which there is harmony with the world through music (Glenda Leon), the human need, in spite of politics and hard times, to the use any kind of help such as horoscopes, black magic or even body fluids (Grethell Rasua).
-From the use of new technologies as Google SketchUp which allow us to construct a new (cyber) space, whether it is to reproduce the world the way we know it and reject it in our recently acquired freedom to create something different and better (Loidys Carnero), to the disappointment and uncertainty experience by contemporary human beings in response to complex societies and governments which offer war and economic instability instead of cure and support (Yaima Carranza)
-From public interventions and graffiti, a defying reinterpretation of socialist propaganda and street paintings (Hamlet Lavastida), to the Carlos Garaicoa special project for the exterior wall of Gentil Carioca about violence and fragility of human beings and surrounding architecture.
The public attending to the exhibition will find a wide range of intelligent and incisive questions asked by these artists to their own reality, political and economic status quo.

Gentil Carioca
Rua Gonçalves Ledo 17 sobrado, Centro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
21-2222-1651 ou correio@agentilcarioca.com.br
www.agentilcarioca.com.br
Monday – Friday: 12.00 -7.00 pm, Saturdays, 12.00 -5.00 pm

Translated by Rolando Milian from Gentil Carioca press release