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On our tour you will find works by 33 participants
in the central show of the 8th Havana Biennial, as well as a selection
of special and parallel exhibitions and projects.
We also would have liked to have seen the works created as
part of the biennial by artists from various countries in the urban
setting of the Alamar quarter (on the eastern end of Havana). However,
the trip out there for the opening on 2 November was canceled at short
notice, supposedly because the artists were not yet finished.
We later learned that Cuban officials did indeed attend the
planned opening in Alamar. Apparently, those responsible decided at
the last minute that foreigners should be kept away from Cuba’s
largest housing project (with over 160,000 residents) which, in its
dreariness, is anything but a model example of Socialist quality of
life.
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Biennial's central exhibition:
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
Special projects:
Pabellón Cuba
4D, a project by the group RAIN
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales
Cuban art exhibition
Parallel shows:
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Tania Bruguera, Los Carpinteros, René Francisco Rodríguez
La Casona
Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gómez, Esterio Segura
Agro Mercado 3ra y C
Show at an agricultural market, Vedado district
Espacio Aglutinador
independent artist's space, Vedado district
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