M io'rr/ i CUBA SI! 50 YEARS OF CUBAN PHOTOGRAPHY Dick Institute Museum and Art Gallery. Kilmarnock. until Fri 15 Jun 000.
Golf with Fidel, 1959 by Alberto Korda
Compelling black and white images flood this intriguing exhibition, a welcome contrast to the seductive diet of cadillacs, cigars and salsa dancers of tourist advertisements. But apart from that Mona Lisa of photographs, Korda‘s mystical portrait of Che Guevara, or Corales’ heroic Cavalry, what do these eleven photographers tell us about Cuban 20th century reality?
While the romance and history of the revolution is well-represented, as is a strain of artistic photography, the most powerful images capture moments in the everyday life of ordinary people. Raul Canibano’s Peasant Land series reveals densities of emotion, as the body of the old bony man from La Tunas lies prone, hat-on-head under a mosquito net which
functions as a wall to his bed and a vision of the family as shadow puppets.
Lazaro Miranda shares the same poetic vision with his Natural Man and Havana Captured images. My one quibble is the lack of a feminine viewpoint, of the textured lives of women, key mediators between the domestic and public economies, only briefly glimpsed in curator Keith Cardwell’s Home From School.
Catch papier—mache' artist Filiberto Mora‘s idiosyncratic, vivid models of
bicycle taxis, motorbikes, open cars and lorry buses of people and his three giant Santeria Saints which grace and protect the exhibition. Well worth the
trip to Kilmarnock. (Jan Fairley)
GROUP SHOW
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Firth Gallery. Edinburgh. until Sat 2 Jun .000
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s'iuiiiANfHA CLARK: GULL Bulkhead, Glasgow, until Sun 3 Jun 0..
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lldi'l‘réf ,. MFA INTERIM SHOW Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow, until Fri 1 Jun .0.
presence. The range is suitany broad from Saad Hai Hiri's fusion of Minimalism and Op art. to Ankiir Bagla's large abstracts and finally /oi Pappa's grotesque. zombie self portraits. As well as these. lro;r Hultle‘, has a series of seductive photograph, printed on lllllltllflC‘CE,1ll'/élf;t:‘)_ .'.rhir,h WI” further help to satiate fliosr: of ,’)ll starved of Visual pleasures.
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