ESTUDIO 21 Creation and Curatorship Grants

Organizers of the ESTUDIO 21 Creation and Curatorship Grants, have announced the winners of the 2013 edition of the call, an initiative of the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV) in Havana, Cuba. During the award ceremony held on September 13 of this year, the following winning works were announced: Descenso (Descent) by Dania González-Sanabria, Scissors by Aissa Santiso-Camiade, and John Cage Interpretado (John Cage Interpreted) by Maykel Rodríguez-Ricardo. Integrated by visual artists Aimée García, Wilfredo Prieto and art expert Yadira Góngora, the jury considered and evaluated the coherence of the proposals by taking into account the previous creative works by the artists, the conceptual consistency of the ideas and their correspondence to the proposed objects, as well as the feasibility of actually completing the works.

Meanwhile, the Curatorship Grant went to the work Manipulation Mediática y Autotelia en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo (Media Manipulation and Autotelia in Contemporary Cuban Art), curated by Israel Castellanos-León. In choosing the proposal for this group exhibition, the jury—formed by art critic and curator Frency Fernández, and art experts Elisa González and Liana Rosa Vázquez—took into account the proper presentation of the curatorial idea, the solidly founded thesis, as well as the election of a theme that involved thorough research work on the history of Cuban art that had never been proposed in previous curatorships. Winners will have one year to complete their projects at the CDAV.