Sandra Ramos and Juan José Gil
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM). July 8 to October 18, 2026
Sandra Ramos. Soñando otra Ítaca. Source: Caam.net
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) reopened its main headquarters in the historic center of the Gran Canaria capital on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, with the inauguration of two retrospective exhibitions dedicated to the work of Canary Island painter Juan José Gil and Cuban artist Sandra Ramos.
The exhibition, “Dreaming of Another Ithaca,” as curator Wendy Navarro explains, “offers a journey through Sandra Ramos’s (Havana, 1969) creative universe through a selection of works organized around her interest in art as a way of fabulating other Ithacas, projecting new possible places for the individual in the face of an unstable and tumultuous world. From her early engravings, reflecting the economic, social, and ideological crisis of 1990s Cuba, to her recent installations and video animations, her critical and poetic view of reality broadens, revealing the complexities and contradictions of today’s global environment.”
Meanwhile, the retrospective dedicated by CAAM to the figure of Canary Island painter Juan José Gil (Vega de San Mateo, 1947 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2023) takes its title from “Painting Painting,” the first major series created by the artist between 1977 and 1982, in which he explored the pictorial resources of North American Abstract Expressionism and the theories of French critic Marcelin Pleynet.
For more information, visit: https://caam.net/exposiciones/
The exhibition, “Dreaming of Another Ithaca,” as curator Wendy Navarro explains, “offers a journey through Sandra Ramos’s (Havana, 1969) creative universe through a selection of works organized around her interest in art as a way of fabulating other Ithacas, projecting new possible places for the individual in the face of an unstable and tumultuous world. From her early engravings, reflecting the economic, social, and ideological crisis of 1990s Cuba, to her recent installations and video animations, her critical and poetic view of reality broadens, revealing the complexities and contradictions of today’s global environment.”
Meanwhile, the retrospective dedicated by CAAM to the figure of Canary Island painter Juan José Gil (Vega de San Mateo, 1947 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2023) takes its title from “Painting Painting,” the first major series created by the artist between 1977 and 1982, in which he explored the pictorial resources of North American Abstract Expressionism and the theories of French critic Marcelin Pleynet.
For more information, visit: https://caam.net/exposiciones/
Sandra Ramos. Soñando otra Ítaca. Source: Caam.net
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