Epifanías del cuerpo: Servando Cabrera
The Servando Cabrera Moreno Museum and Library presents, through July 20th, 2013, Epifanías del cuerpo, curated by Rosemary Rodriguez Cruz.
The exhibition brings together works with a high degree of erotic content, on loan from a variety of institutions and collectors.
These works were created between the late 1960s and the 1970s, a time when the broad diffusion of such content was particularly difficult.
In 1971, Cabrera wanted to exhibit these works at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, but his attempts were foiled by censorship.
Visitors will now have an opportunity to see never-before exhibited works filled with Cabrera's characteristic lines and tracings.
Although female figures can be identified, central prominence is reserved for the series' high degree of homoerotic and androgynous content.
Epifanía del cuerpo is a beautiful and provocative exhibition. And it is also an adventure. As the curator writes in the catalog: "Studying the main avenues of local artistic production during the time of Servando's activities, we recognize him as a pioneer and a defender of erotic and homoerotic art. The distance in time that separates us from the era when Servando's work was unrecognized allows us to compare it to the poetics of his contemporaries, and to argue for his condition as an initiator."
