PERPETUATE-DISLOCATE-PERPETUATE

By Luis Sicre   The exhibition Perpetuate – dislocate – perpetuate by artist Alejandro Campins (Manzanillo, Cuba, 1981) gathers a group of oil paintings on canvas, drawings, and egg tempera on wood; representative works of two recent series: Badlands and Tibet. The works are personal approaches to one of the oldest topics in art: transcendence.… Read More

Magnetized places

by Luis Sicre The series Bad Lands and Tibet are two different ways of approaching one of the oldest topics in art: transcendent. In both, earth becomes the very centre of attention, reconsidered as an archaeological evidence, indication of life, abstraction of the core of time and space. The artist outlines an analogy between this concept and the…

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Fear to death is fear to the truth Fear to death is fear to the truth. By Margarita Sánchez Prieto The Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam closes its 2018 expositions program with the exhibition Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad (Fear to death is fear to the truth), constituted by the series…

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Alejandro Campins

The Walking Dead. By Yornel Martínez “The Walking Dead”, by Yornel Martínez. Text for City of the Dead´s Exhibition, Servando Gallery, May 2015. Men live their death and die their lives Heraclitus Never has an era felt death as one-dimensional as ours. However, we do not want have nothing to do with it. Death has…

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Campins’ fog and horizon. (Interview). By Marcelo Morales   “Campins’ fog and horizon”, by Marcelo Morales. ART OnCuba I arrived half asleep in the morning to that Zen space that Campins’ studio is, to that Zen universe that Campins himself is, to that peace. I was always intrigued by Campins’ ability to build spaces with…

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A history of old and new, of beginning and end… (Interview). By Daleysi Moya   “Alejandro Campins. A history of old and new, of beginning and end…”, by Daleysi Moya  artoncuba.com In this 12th edition of Art Biennale of Havana, Alejandro Campins has developed, from the space of the Servando gallery, a peculiar exhibition entitled…

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Lapse. By Kristine Roome   “Lapse – Alejandro Campins’ first U.S. solo show at Sean Kelly”, by Kristine Roome. Arte Fuse, February 19, 2016. What does it feel like when the world is changing all around you? How do you capture a place in time? Havanabased artist Alejandro Campins, (born in 1981, Manzanillo, Cuba) puts…

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The metaphysical landscapes of Alejandro Campins. By Laura Salas Redondo   “The metaphysical landscapes of Alejandro Campins”, by Laura Salas Redondo. ART Nexus, No. 106, September – November, 2017. The Cinema Teatro Nuovo, where for the first time arrived cinema to San Gimignano, the Tuscany city stopped in the Middle Ages, was active for 34…

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Stay alone. By Daleysi Moya   “Stay alone”. By Daleysi Moya. Alejandro Campins 2013-2016 (Catalogue) Gli Ori, Galleria Continua 2017. In the creative process of each artist, there is an essential moment that ends up leading his work in a unique and unobjectionable sense. That moment IS not exclusively related, as many think, to technical…

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In Search of Lost Times. By Daleysi Moya   “Alejandro Campins: In Search of Lost Times”. By Daleysi Moya, in ART OnCuba Magazine. No. 06 March – May 2015.   “But then the memory –and it still was not the memory of the place where I was, but that of other places where I had…

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