Artist Information:
Aluan Arguelles
Havana,
Cuba
Member Since: Jul 2011
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Artist Statement:
I was born in a Cuban working
class family in the early
1980’s. My life, like all
Cubans, is indelibly marked by
the historical and social
facts of these years and the
90’s. The fall of the
Socialist camp, the
disconnection of Cuba’s
commercial network with the
U.S.S.R, the economic crisis
which followed, known as “The
Special Period”, and
afterwards, mass immigration
to the United States, permeate
my daily thought. I am
marked with nostalgia of the
diaspora and my society’s pain
of losing our utopia.
I project my work from the
local to the global,
attempting to find myself
outside of this
micro-universe. I utilize
painting as a common language,
in order to speak about my
experience living on an island
sustained by nostalgia and the
hope that provokes migration
on an international level.
I am interested in the concept
of island and its relation
with the periphery; how we
coincide with centers of
power, and how this generates
the desire for an uncertain,
but particular, future. I am
affected, as are all Cubans,
by the uprooting caused by the
deceptions and loss of
prospective on the island.
My work is ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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Aluan Argüelles. Born in
Havana 1982
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2011
Zoom. International Dynamic
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Belforte del Chienti, MC.
Italy
Aloud. Centro de Desarrollo de
las Artes Visuales (CDAV).
Havana
2010
Beach Birds. Servando Cabrera
Moreno Gallery. Playa. Havana
2009
Life turns on a dime. UVM ...
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Aluan Arguelles's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Aluan Arguelles's Portfolio.
I was born in a Cuban working class family in the early 1980’s. My life, like all Cubans, is indelibly marked by the historical and social facts of these years and the 90’s. The fall of the Socialist camp, the disconnection of Cuba’s commercial network with the U.S.S.R, the economic crisis which followed, known as “The Special Period”, and afterwards, mass immigration to the United States, permeate my daily thought. I am marked with nostalgia of the diaspora and my society’s pain of losing our utopia.
I project my work from the local to the global, attempting to find myself outside of this micro-universe. I utilize painting as a common language, in order to speak about my experience living on an island sustained by nostalgia and the hope that provokes migration on an international level.
I am interested in the concept of island and its relation with the periphery; how we coincide with centers of power, and how this generates the desire for an uncertain, but particular, future. I am affected, as are all Cubans, by the uprooting caused by the deceptions and loss of prospective on the island.
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